bigdaddy raises some important questions, the most important of which is this: Do you have ANY symptoms of narcolepsy other than EDS? Do you have sleep attacks? Cataplexy? Sleep paralysis? I bet there are a lot of clues from the history that would suggest whether narcolepsy is a bona fide diagnosis...

Big Daddy, my sleep doctor recommended surgery even though I was compliant with cpap. I still felt extremely tired during the day, and they suggested the two (apnea and EDS) might not be related. I talked with a surgeon who also said the daytime sleepiness and the OSA were probably independent of ea...

I have been on the Nuvigil for 3 weeks and I can honestly say I feel great. I don't know if it was the surgery, the Nuvigil, or the combination of both but I feel rested when I wake up and alert during the day. The initial problems with the insomnia have subsided, and I feel 100% different during th...

I currently see Dr. Mohsenin - Yale Center for Sleep Medicine. I have an upcoming appointment to discuss the latest results of my last sleep study and was trying to be proactive in finding out about MMA surgery.

Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.

Hello, I am new to this website, but unfortunately not new to CPAP. I have been on CPAP for 9 years, and I have recently started to have problems. I have gone to auto-titration and now I am going to begin bi-pap. My sleep doctor mentioned MMA surgery as a possibility - so I began looking into it. I ...