How do you stop snoring?

I vividly remember somebody telling me about surgery they had to treat apnea. I don't recall exactly what was cut (probably something at the back of the throat), but I do recall the effect.

He told me it was horrible and he regretted it. A certain amount of bleeding was involved, and he said that at one point he coughed in the shower and a huge clot of blood spattered on the floor. Gross.

That sounds like a pretty savage treatment. The trend in the current century has been toward more conservative treatments if anything, meaning avoiding surgical procedures with highly variable ten year outcomes. There aren't that many ways they can widen airways through surgery, and I personally wouldn't want to undergo any of them.


 
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