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42 posts and this silly site still won't let me post a link.  

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The untreated Sleep Apnoea sufferer died quietly in his sleep.......
Unlike his three passengers who died screaming !!!!!!

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Showed up at the Dr.s and the lobby was full of sick people they did not even have me wait theere they moved right into the room and the doc saw me with in minutes. Looked me over and stated that some scabbs had come of and to stick to a puree diet for another week and take it easy. No work no nothing and be sure to stay with puree diet like 3 times. He had told me 10days at surgery, now longer ugh, no more hot dogs:( More pain meds and try another week.

My Dr. spent 15 minutes telling me two long stories about patients who disregarded his soft diet only reccomendation and had bleeding issues.  I was irratated at the time that he was dragging on and on.  Now I see why.

Are these scabs from the tonsils??  That's too bad Blaine......note to self during recovery, no fricking hot dogs no matter how tempted I am.

YES! The truck pulled over, I slept 10 hours straight and was able to swallow water when I woke up not take an hour to sip it down. I was so discouraged yesterday I was down right sour. Am definitely still sore but nothing like the past 2 weeks. I am so happy eating an ice right now chillin I can see being human again.

Pstar, Yes the scabs were from tonsiles, Am am not convinced the hot dog did the deed as I was bleeding before I had it, am I am sure when I vomited that made it worse.??? but will follow the doctors orders either way.

As far as apnea goes I was diagnosed as habing mild apnea had a pressure of * on the cpap I do not know the counts I never knew enough to ask till coming on this forum. The last 6 mounths the apnea seemed to be worse as I was wearing the CPAP every night and did not have any problems keeping it sealed, when the doctor and I spoke he said I had big toncils and the regular you are a good canidate stuff, but there is no garrantee it will hep you and things could go wrong, he was the chief something or other at the hospital and has done alot of the procedures, It would hurt like hell andall that but thought it was worth a try and to think about it. now here I am recoverying and Have not slept as good as last night in a long long time no cpap, and did not wake up for the percocet in the night and was able to swallow the water when I woke up, still hurt but not like before. Have my fingers crossed.

Thats great to see your feeling better I agree with you that I cant believe how well I sleep eversince my surgery. Since my recovery I can sleep 6 or 7 hours and wake up refreshed and rested where before I would sleep 8 or 9 hours wake up tired every morning and be ready for a nap after work. So for all those  who are in extreme pain right now and think I'm off my rocker its true it will get better Tugger is proof. Just remember that soft foods is the key and when you start eating harder foods ease into it... Now that I'm feeling so much better I have to go in for a second treatment of somnoplasty to the base of my tongue. My Dr said this is alittle painful not as bad as the surgery this one is more like a normal soar throat... YAY!!! Happy healings, Art

Wow, good news for you and others preparing for the procedure.  I've been told vomiting and nausea are usually from ingesting blood so that's what proably caused that for you.

My Dr. said, and I've read others confirm, they had the same discusion with their Dr. about the importance of keeping the weight in check post-op to stay off the cpap long term.  This seems to corrolate with my own expierence that I thought I'd throw out here for all.  Last year my wieght was up to an all time high of 240 lbs.  I'm 6' 5" so I still looked fairly proportioned for my hieght but I noticed I had let the belt out a couple notches.  I dieted down to 215.  As I dropped weight my average nightly auto cpap pressure went from 7.5 to the low 5's and had readings in the upper 4's at times.  Due to lower activety levels from an elbow injury and the nasal surgery etc over the last 2-3 months my wieght has gone up to the upper 220's and up went my pressure reading again, now at 7.0.  I'm anticipating losing a lot of wieght next month from the procedure so I haven't been to worried about it.  My theory is there is now again more obstruction in my airway due to the weight gain.  My mask leak rate and apnea events are recorded as unchanged on the machine.  Just 12 or so lbs requires my cpap to work significantly harder to keep my airway open.  I realize this is hardly a scientific study but when considered with what dr's say post-op to patients about long term success, "if you gain wieght, all bets are off", it seems pretty relevant.  When I've read about people who say the symptoms came back after a while I rarely, if ever, read what their body mass index is and how it changed post-op.  In other words, how much wieght did they re-gain.  Undoubtedly there are exceptions but I suspect wieght management is KEY to long term success.
Anyways, just thought I'd throw it out here.  I plan to get down to what I think my key wieght is for my height of between 205-210 lbs and keep it there.

My Doc also stated the same about weight, He was hopeing I'd loose 10 to 15 lbs after the surgery. I had lost 10 when I first seen him for my follow up, My wife was with me and when he asked if I'd lost some wieght she blurted out NO he looked like he thought I was cheating on my directions on the soft food only.  I said I had lost but they did not weigh me at the ENT and I convinced he did not beleive me.  I am currently down 15 +lbs. The doc encurage me to use the surgery as a spring board to loose 20 lbs.  Which I am planning on I have leaned alot about portion while recovering and realize I wont need to feel deprived if I do not have a plate full of stuff or a topped off bowl.  I have the gaol to get to 185lbs for my weight today I am at 206 was running around 224 to 228 before the surgery.

Slept a good part of the day away today Woke up to a real dry throat it is sore  but have not taken any percocet today and feel better than I have:)

Got up in the middle of the night last night to a mouth full of blood.  I don't know what happened.  I've been bleeding free since the surgery and have been careful I'm sure, but when I woke up last night to clunky blood and continuous bleeding, I got really scared.  After spitting all the blood out of my mouth and trying to stop the bleeding by drinking ice cold water, I downed 4-5 popsicles and crushed ice.  The bleeding stopped, and when I checked my throat again, I noticed that the blood came from my left tonsil area.  I really don't get it.  I've been doing so good, and I didn't even notice anything bad in my left tonsil prior to this, and I am awaken by this.  I was coughing a little prior to going to bed last night, but not bad enough to think it did anything to cause the bleeding.  I've been coughing way worse than that the other days, so I really really don't know what happened.  It was good today the whole day, but as I was laying down watching TV, I noticed a blood taste in my mouth and ran to the bathroom mirror to investigate....found some bleeding again.  Not as bad as last night, but nevertheless, BLEEDING.  WHY?  I did the same thing as last night and ate lots of popsicles with crushed ice to stop the bleeding.

This is day 11 for me, and aside from the bleeding part, I've been doing quite well.  Much less pain, and less pain medication.  The way this is going as far as pain, I think I'll be able to go with just tylenol tomorrow forward.  I see doc tomorrow for my second postop, so I'll be sure to ask what the deal was with the sudden bleeding.  I have also been on the liquid/soft diet, so I really don't know what the deal is.  I will update this with what docs says.

Watch what sapolumans doc has to say about bleeding

Good luck today

sapoluman---- wow, strange.
looking forward to hearing what the doc has to say...
 
i'm on day 15 after surgery, had my check up yesterday.
pleased to report that i'm feeling pretty good!
still hurts and i suck on losenges most of the day, but i can exhale through my nose - did the sensi-rinse stuff.
still eating soft stuff and/or taking small bites and extra chewing.
gettin good sleep at night though...
maybe i'll be one of those success stories?!?
follow-up sleep study scheduled for january....

let us know how it goes sapoluman...

Sapo, Did you have an adonoidectomy too? Turbinate reduction?

If you had the adonoids done I bet that is the source.  For two or three weeks after my turbunate reduction, at times, I would have bleeding after I woke up.  The Dr. said they dry out and the scabs crack open and bleed.  They then close up and the cycle continues when ever a long dry period, like extended sleep, occurs.  I ran my cpap humidifier at max to help cut that out.  Since your off the cpap that won't be an option for you I guess.  Interested to hear what your doc says too.

Despite the flurry of bleeding issues, sounds like everybody is on the down hill section of the pain process.  Good to hear.

Alright here goes.  Got up this morning.  Pain feeling much better.  No pain medication taken, but on the road heading to doctors office.  As I was driving, I started coughing again.  I finally realized that I would get these coughs when I turned on my Air Conditioner (I live in Hawaii and AC is a must every time you get in your car).  I was definitely not turning off the AC though, but the coughing persisted, and that's when I tasted blood once again.  I pulled over and spat the blood out.  I detoured to Starbucks and got something cold to drink to stop the bleeding, then continued on to the doctor's.

Doctor checked and found that the scab on my left tonsil came off, and related that any irritation (such as coughing) would rupture it again and again. Doctor related that this is what he was hoping would not happen because this slows down the healing process.  Doctor then numbed my left tonsil area and proceeded to clean it by sucking the blood clot and the excessive blood patches around it.  He then re-cauterized the blood vessel and the area around it to keep the bleeding from re-occuring.  Suprisingly, this procedure was pretty fast and painless.

Due to re-cauterizing, doc related that the affected area would take a little longer to heal, so he re-issued more pain medication and this time prescribed me something a little stronger for the coughing.  Hopefully the coughing stops or at least subsides.  I'm coughing like crazy right now as I'm typing this, but I just took the cough medication, so I'm crossing my fingers.

Day 12 for me.  Pain for me as is now a 2-4.  I don't have much pain swallowing anymore, but I'm sticking to the liquids only, just because I don't want to cause anymore bleeding.  Doctor also related that my upper palate and the stubby uvula is still slightly swollen and will shrink with time.  He said that this is also one of the temporary problems of exhale blockage (through the nose).  Oh, and for the surgery question:  I only had the UPPP and Tonsilectomy.  Adenoid wasn't done.

Way to keep us in suspense, Was worried you got admitted or something, LOL.
Good luck and thanks for the up date.

yeah... i was hoping you didn't bleed out on the way to the doc! lol...
well i guess that's not so bad then...
or at least better now.

keep taking it easy and stop coughing!

Interesting how the bleeding issues people seem to have stem from the tonsils and not the palate area.  I figured the palate would be the big problem since tonsilectomies are such common procedures.

My post op instructions say NO crushed ice.  I was thinking of blowing those instructions off but since everyone is bleeding out around here I guess I won't. ;)