[Aaron C.]

I snore terribly and have sleep apnea. I just got a cpap machine and after three nights it has helped me not to snore, but I haven't noticed yet any difference in quality of sleep. My wife is already sleeping better though, so she is sold. I'm not to high on wearing that mask though. And everytime I try to talk something crazy comes out (air goes in my nose and right out my mouth). I sound more like a machine than a person. The sound, coupled with the mask doesn't work too well when your two year old comes in at 2 in the morning to wake you up for something to drink!! My other options....?

Read the article about snoring on the home page and see for yourself. Here are a couple of excerpts:

...(UPPP) is still performed, it can be horrifically painful. The surgery, in which the uvula and soft palate are resectioned, requires a two-day hospital stay and two weeks of recovery time. One veteran of both Vietnam and UPPP calls the latter the more unpleasant experience.

“The incision or the laser burn has to heal while you constantly breathe, talk and swallow, so the wound is always being stretched, causing considerable pain,” says John Shepard, M.D., medical director of the Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorders Center in Rochester, Minn. “One patient said that if he’d had a gun he would have shot himself, the pain was so bad.”

I think I'll give this CPAP thing a litttle time [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]