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> I wasn't tested before surgery for sleep apnea either. My husband used

> to tell me that I snored loud and that I would stop breathing in my

> sleep.

I wasn't tested either. I was pretty sure I had apnea, because I would wake

up coughing sometimes, never felt really rested, and had to sleep on my

stomach to breathe. When I had my surgery, they didn't test me, and when I

was recovering Dr. Tanaka told me they had discovered apnea during surgery.

He said they didn't test for it, because it was pretty much assumed that

anyone ovdr 300 pounds lying on their backs would display symptoms of apnea

during surgery, so they just prepared for it in every case. The

anethesiologist who works with them has a great deal of experience with MO

patients and apnea, so he's always expecting it in bariatric surgeries,

particularly with the super MO.

It's interesting, nearly everyone I talk to who is overweight has the same

complaint about sleep -- snoring too loud, intermittent bouts of not

breathing, waking up coughing to get a breath -- I imagine it's a very small

portion of the MO population who DON'T have apnea problems. But I don't know

this, it's just based on my observations.

~~ Lyn G

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