For all of you that have sleep apnea and are on the fence wither WLS can help you let me tell you this one, for years I have had severe sleep apnea , to the point I was on a cpap unit . Yep, even to the point of the upstairs neighbor at one of apartments called down in the middle of the night to tell Mich to roll me over I was snoring so loud it woke them up upstairs !! That's pretty bad snoring .
Mich and I had talked about this the other day , and Thursday was the day I had my follow up for the newest sleep study that I had done so it kind of all ties in.
First off, the odds are very good it will help with the apnea, based upon how much we way is what can force the breathing passages to be forced close and block off our o2 . According to MiniMich , I stopped snoring in the first 2-3 weeks after surgery, the funny part was the kids complained they couldn't sleep because of my NOT snoring !!
The results that came in are fantastic, NO MORE SLEEP APNEA, as in GONE and this is clinically documented now , so yep am doing the happy dance .
One reason we can all use this is , life insurance .The lack of sleep apnea can be a good reason for your insurance company to reevaluate your entire policy, combined with the weight loss this will have a very positive impact on your premiums, I was a guinea pig for my own agent and they dropped me into almost the lowest bracket you can get for someone my age,pretty damn good .There is no reason you can't ask them to redo the policy for the weight loss alone . They will probably recheck , redo the policy and amazingly enough , mine has told us they will review in this again at the 2 year mark a to make sure not falling into bad habits again,
So yep,I do believe that the WLs is the real reason for losing the weight and keeping it of, despite the always watching what you eat, {supposed to being do right thing)
The insurance company actually cut my insurance in half , so there ya are , from 1600 a year to 725 , not so bad a deal huh?
Peace
MinMarc
