Saxatilis - dude, slightly off topic, and not the question you asked (so perhaps I am being the opposite of helpful!) - but... why don't we try to help get CPAP working for you (i.e. tips to fall asleep while scuba diving etc.) - see how that goes for a few months, and then have a think about surge...

UPPP didn't provide any benefit that I can tell. My obstruction are the muscles in my throat. The nasal drill helped using nasal pillows, so that had some tangible benefit. Eventually, and after many years, the CPAP didn't provide adequate therapy but I found via experimentation that the ASV machin...

Get the cpap working for yourself. trying my damndest. Decide to make it work (Mine worked the first night, no problems other then a red nose bridge solved by a liner). see above and lucky you When you have been on it for a few months and can think straight, then re-evaluate the surgery. Right now ...

Where as CPAP may ensure I will be single my whole life. Yay. I am mostly joking but I would be lying if I said I wasn't taking my dating life into consideration. If you had lost any of your limbs or were horribly disfigured, would you not wear any prosthetics? If you had poor eyesight, would you n...

Goofproof wrote: I must be doing it wrong, I have never considered my XPAP as a sex tool, it hardly vibrates. Jim

@Wulfman Thank you for the advice. If I had gone my doctors way I would have already scheduled the surgery. No, I do my homework and try to make informed decisions. Hence why I am posting here. Of course any surgery has risks. I am well aware that many, if not most UPPP patients still use CPAP. So t...

Where as CPAP may ensure I will be single my whole life. Yay.

I am mostly joking but I would be lying if I said I wasn't taking my dating life into consideration.

Hey there! Newbie looking for advice. I was recently diagnosed with fairly severe OSA and the doctor has me starting CPAP but also recommended I consider UPPP (Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty). As the subject line implies I am fairly young and can reasonably expect 40 more years if I live to a "normal" li...