SLEEP APNEA

Last summer I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, which in short, means you stop breathing while you sleep. My doctor told me there were a couple of treatment plans I could choose from. Having gone through the sleep studies, I did not think it would be that hard of a decision. For the sleep test, I simply had to go to a medical center and sleep in one of their rooms for a night and they monitored me. I guess I should have been a little worried when my doctor called me and told me I needed another test but I just thought it was to be sure or that the tests were not conclusive. After I got the voice message she left me though, I thought different. She told me it was pretty serious, almost life threatening, and that we needed to talk as soon as possible. She told me my options were surgery or to sleep with a C-pap machine. At first I wanted to go with the surgery, because I did not want to sleep with a mask strapped to my face, but my doctor told me to give it a shot and try to loose some weight. So I decided to do it her way, mostly because the way she described the surgery was much less appealing than when she described the C-pap machine. Turns out, six months and loosing fifty pounds worked out better than getting a surgery that I probably could not pay for anyway.