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chrisy":2zpp16pb said:Not everyone with the problem is over weight, isn't it something to do with the back pallet in the throat being soft? being over weight doesn't help but not the only contributor so I have read.grannysoo":2zpp16pb said:Ryder":2zpp16pb said:Seems like I hear of an awful lot of people with sleep apnea. Is there some sort of epdemic?
Yes, it's an epidemic. It's caused from a lot of us being a fat-a$$. Losing weight helps with the problem.
Good point. I had it in high school apparently when I was skinny as a rail and didnt realize it. I had nasal polyps at the time and thought that heck that is what is causing the problems. I had sinus surgery and they fixed my deviated septum and removed the polyps, and trimmed my adenoids. This stopped my snoring for a long while and stopped the headaches for a while. Recently, I went through some rough times and became depressed. I got fat, and since then I have been having the bad head aches again. I went back to the ear nose and throat specialist and they did a ct scan of my sinuses and only found one single polyp that was no bigger than a pea and it was far enough away in my sinus to not cause issues. So then I went to the regular doctor with asthma problems, he recommended I get a sleep study done as I was having trouble with intermittent insomnia and had for years. Then I went to the sleep doctor he said I needed to have a sleep study done. The rest is history. I go back october 6, 2009 for follow up having completed both nights of the sleep study.