Originally Posted by Prosody
My experience with doctors is that they do not go looking for anything you don't tell them about. Losing weight is supposed to help reduce the number of episodes of apnea, but it probably does not eliminate it.
The uvula is not the sole cause of apnea. I understand that surgical treatment involves lopping off some of the uvula, removing tonsils, and trimming tissue around the uvula. The right amount of trimming may correct apnea in only a few patients, but too much trimming can cause problems that (I'm just extrapolating here) may involve sneezing raisins out the nose, or grapes, chunks of steak, chicken bones...
While an enlarged uvula may not be the only cause of SA. it ought to be a red flag for the physician to ask more questions and check further. Indeed, SA (estimated at 18 million in the USA) ought to be a part of the screen on a physical. And how would one know to mention it to a physician if one did not know they had it?
BTW - BP right now 104/65
