Sleep apnea

I'm scheduled for DS on April 30th.  I'm curious has any one had sleep apnea disappear after surgery? ?? I'm hoping and praying the snoring will go away or at least lighten up some

Congratulations on your surgery date.

I had my VSG surgery almost 4 years ago and most of my sleep apnea went away, but I still have some of it. It's a long story, I'll tell you a little bit of why I still have sleep apnea and that reason is that I have a condition that I found out last year and that condition is that I have something called "Chiari Malformation Type 1". I had surgery a month ago to fix my condition and other conditions that I have from it. I'm going to have my sleep study test tomorrow night to see if the remaining sleep apnea went away or not. I know I'll have another sleep study two to three months after I have this sleep study test tomorrow night. Once in a while I think I do snore.

I wish you luck, good luck.

Thank you for your response.  Good luck with your test....

You're welcome. Thank you.

My daughter had her RNY done Oct 22nd 2013 and she had Sleep Apnea.  After her surgery she no longer has it.  She sleeps fine and no longer has to use her CPAP machine.  I am having the same surgery on the 22nd of April and I am hoping that I am going to be rid of mine as well.  Good Luck to you.  :-)  Val

My daughter had her RNY done Oct 22nd 2013 and she had Sleep Apnea.  After her surgery she no longer has it.  She sleeps fine and no longer has to use her CPAP machine.  I am having the same surgery on the 22nd of April and I am hoping that I am going to be rid of mine as well.  Good Luck to you.  :-)  Val 

PS she has lost 145lbs so far  :-)

Good luck with your surgery. ..145lbs...that's awesome. ..since October. ..wow...how did she do it....

She is very committed and she stuck right to her programm.  It works!

Surgery is often effective in treating snoring. It is less effective in treating obstructive sleep apnea.

The challenge that confronts the surgeon is determining what part of the upper airway is causing the obstruction to airflow. There are many possible sites, and conventional sleep testing does not identify the area the surgeon should modify. If the surgeon does not treat that site in the airway, or if there are multiple sites of obstruction, it is unlikely that the sleep apnea will diminish to a degree that eliminates the need for other treatment.

Before my DS, I snored so loudly that I sometimes awakened people sleeping in a different room.

When I left the hospital after my DS, I stayed with my mom for a week or so. She swears that several times she came into my bedroom to check on me because I wasn't snoring and she feared I was dead.

I never had a sleep study and so was never diagnosed with sleep apnea, so I can't really say I've been 'cured'. I just know I sleep much better and I don't snore at all.