[elric]

Nothing works anywhere near as well as PAP therapy. Certainly not diets (overweight is often an effect of apnea, not a cause). Sleeping positions can help in the case of positional apnea, but certainly not for everyone. Botox injections anywhere will have to be repeated regularly. Fucking with the uvala (like in UPPP surgery) can actually worsen sleep apnea and has all kinds of nasty infection and side effect risks.

PAP therapy works. The biggest problem with it is that it has a bad reputation, which is largely caused by doctors and sleep clinics not doing their fucking jobs. Patients are often sent home with a CPAP machine, titrated to some semi-random setting which happened to be fine for the night of their sleep study in an artificial environment. And that's it. Goodbye and good luck. That's such a messed up way of treating people with a life-long ailment ...

[agrue]

Thanks for your detailed response, but the things I listed were entirely in jest. I don't think the uvula causes sleep apnea and don't believe a pill would be able to obviate breathing while sleeping.

[elric]

Haha I totally missed that, my bad! The uvula thing is pretty scary, some people have it removed entirely in an effort to treat sleep apnea, and from what I hear it seems to help at first, but then often gets worse again (maybe because scar tissue is less strong than regular tissue?).