[BenFranklin100]

Get your tonsils taken out if you haven’t already, along with the uvula. The volume of other tissues in the back of your throat can be reduced, and a turbinate reduction can improve nose breathing as well. A good ENT can advise.

[nemo44x]

A good ENT will also advise against these surgeries if possible. It's very much last resort. Removing the Uvula can create serious swallowing issues for people and in general the surgery success rate is essentially a coin flip, with noticeable regret. But yeah, some people (pretty small percentage) just can't make a CPAP machine work.

[BenFranklin100]

Some ENTs might, others will advocate for the surgery depending on the patient. As always, get second opinions and do one’s research.

A key potential advantage of the surgical route is no need (or at least a many years delay for the need) of a CPAP machine, a very significant advantage. Also, the discussed surgeries have a high rate of success in reducing snoring in individuals who don’t have sleep apnea, which is another health benefit for both the patient and the patient’s sleep partner. Snoring is an under-treated condition.

[kev009]

You're also deep sixing part of your immune system. There are consequences you can read about, which studies you decide to believe is a personal choice. A better initial road to travel is to wonder why one carries so much inflammation in the first place and relentlessly fix it.