I now weigh 189. I have lost almost 60 pounds. I still use my CPAP machine every night, but we went out of town for one night this week and I left my machine at home. My husband said I still snored just as bad as I used to. I was disappointed to hear this. I was hoping it would have at least improved by now. Do some people never get off the CPAP machine no matter how much weight they lose?

some people have sleep apnea without being overweight. I have a brother-in-law who is thin with severe sleep apnea.

Yup, I agree. I had sleep apnea when I was a kid and I was not overweight. I'm down a hundred plus pounds. I don't snore, but I'm convinced that I'm still suffering from sleep apnea. I still wake up with the headaches and sometimes feel exhausted.

Mine went away when I hit about 170.. Probably different with everyone

I still snore, but I think maybe the apnea is gone. I no longer wake up tired or with headaches. I don't use a CPAC although I was supposed to get one before the surgery and I didn't, and now I've lost 55 lbs, when I get down a little further, maybe 160 or so if I'm still snoring, or if I find that I'm in a stall for too much longer, I'll see if I can get another sleep study to see if I still have the apnea.

I know not enough sleep can affect weight loss and if I need to get the CPAP I will.

I believe a loss of 10% excess weight is enough to get off the cpap. Everyone is different though. I stopped using mine a few days after surgery and have not used it since. No longer snore according to my wife, no more headaches in the morning to grogginess the next day. In fact, I am "donating" my cpap machine to my wife as she just got diagnosed with severe sleep apnea (60% o2 levels at night). She will be having VSG in a few months.

My surgeon told me that some people are able to get off the cpap with weight loss, and others are not. I apparently have pretty severe sleep apnea - 69 - so he says that I may never get off of the cpap - it may just be genetic. But he said the weight loss will definitely help - I may be able to go down to a lower pressure level on my cpap with weight loss.