Sleep apnea and Backpacking

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Some people these surgeries really help. What you had is called a UPPP. Many of us don’t do these surgeries anymore because of the low (50%) success rate. We tend to do a sedated endoscopy to see what is collapsing to try to target the area of collapse and base surgery on that. Many of us now do a variation of a expansion palatal pharyngoplasty. Has closer to 80% success in the right patient. Definitely not a one size fits all.


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You are correct. That is what I had. It was a long time ago but even at 50% it was 100% worth trying for me personally. Good to know there is something else out there with higher success rate. Thankful I fell into the right side of that 50%.