Klarinet Archive - Posting 000483.txt from 2001/12

From: Donna Higgins <Donna@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Somnoplasty
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:28:40 -0500

Fred,

Is this procedure being recommended to you as a cure for snoring? If so,
you could have obstructive sleep apnea, in which case surgery is not the
answer. I have OSA, and I've been told by other musicians to avoid having
any kind of surgery for my condition. I'm using a CPAP machine with great
success. Just curious - was this recommended by a sleep specialist or an
ENT? From what I have learned, sleep specialists almost never recommend
surgery for sleep apnea; ENTs often do.

My advice is to head over to alt.support.sleep-disorder. There are very
likely to be people who have had this procedure done and could give you good
answers to your questions. If you don't have a newsreading program, you can
access the newsgroup through www.google.com.

Feel free to write me privately if you want to talk more about this.

- Donna

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brimstone, the stake, the gridiron? What a joke! No need of a gridiron, Hell
is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre

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