It is now about a year since I got my last surgery. 3 months after I got out a full in-lab PSG study that showed that I was completely cured. I've now completed my first
annual sleep test.
How have I experienced this first year?
I need hardly tell how nice it is to get rid of my CPAP, it is wonderful.
The first 7-8 months I had a strange feeling in my remaining Uvula. It was not unpleasant, just weird. I think that it has been a kind of a phantom sensation of still
having my full Uvula. I have read that there are some nerves in the Uvula. Then
this feeling disappeared, and today I just have a normal (but much smaller)
Uvula.
At my first PSG study after my surgery, they found a little snoring I did not have before my surgery.
The new result from my annual follow-up sleep tests shows that I still have no Apneas or
Hypopneas, so I'm still fully cured, but my snoring has largely disappeared again.
Simultaneously, I was studied in the nose and throat, which showed that everything was very nice looking.
I think that when you once have or have had Sleep Apnea so you will always have a lot of focus on your quality of sleep. I've had an extreme focus on this, which may be
a problem.
Even people without sleep apnea may have a bad night. This, I immediately perceived as though my sleep apnea had perhaps come again.
I have talked this through with my Sleep Doctor and my ENT, and we agreed that I must now try to "forget" my fear of Sleep Apnea. In my situation there is only a minimal risk that I might have a relapse because my soft palate and my tongue are
not affected.
So I will now try to "forget" my former Sleep Apnea. I will nevertheless from time
to time look in to this website.
I will have my next sleep study (and maybe the last) within 3 years.
If someone responds to this thread, I will of course respond back, just as anyone has questions you are obviously free to PM me.
Thank you to everyone on this forum. It has been (and are) great to be a member of a forum among so many competent people.
To Mike,
I was among the first who became a member of this forum. It's amazing what you have
accomplished.
Henning
