Will sleep apnea ever go away?

[Vidalia 122]

I now weigh 189. I have lost almost 60 pounds. I still use my CPAP machine every night, but we went out of town for one night this week and I left my machine at home. My husband said I still snored just as bad as I used to. I was disappointed to hear this. I was hoping it would have at least improved by now. Do some people never get off the CPAP machine no matter how much weight they lose?

[Gig 27]

some people have sleep apnea without being overweight. I have a brother-in-law who is thin with severe sleep apnea.

[danyelleb 386]

Yup, I agree. I had sleep apnea when I was a kid and I was not overweight. I'm down a hundred plus pounds. I don't snore, but I'm convinced that I'm still suffering from sleep apnea. I still wake up with the headaches and sometimes feel exhausted.

[Ms.AntiBand 2,984]

Mine went away when I hit about 170.. Probably different with everyone

[Pinky Green 260]

I still snore, but I think maybe the apnea is gone. I no longer wake up tired or with headaches. I don't use a CPAC although I was supposed to get one before the surgery and I didn't, and now I've lost 55 lbs, when I get down a little further, maybe 160 or so if I'm still snoring, or if I find that I'm in a stall for too much longer, I'll see if I can get another sleep study to see if I still have the apnea.

I know not enough sleep can affect weight loss and if I need to get the CPAP I will.

[Fiddleman 4,376]

I believe a loss of 10% excess weight is enough to get off the cpap. Everyone is different though. I stopped using mine a few days after surgery and have not used it since. No longer snore according to my wife, no more headaches in the morning to grogginess the next day. In fact, I am "donating" my cpap machine to my wife as she just got diagnosed with severe sleep apnea (60% o2 levels at night). She will be having VSG in a few months.

[swimmom 124]

My surgeon told me that some people are able to get off the cpap with weight loss, and others are not. I apparently have pretty severe sleep apnea - 69 - so he says that I may never get off of the cpap - it may just be genetic. But he said the weight loss will definitely help - I may be able to go down to a lower pressure level on my cpap with weight loss.