Anyones Sleep Apnea gone since surgery???

My sleep apnea was "undiagnosed" before my surgery.  (My wife used to tell me that my lips were blue during sleep...)  While in recovery from the surgery, my blood oxygen levels dropped severely- and my doctor would not release me until I had been prescribed a CPAP.  It cost me two extra days in the hospital.  Because of insurance issues, they would not cover the CPAP until I had a sleep study.  So I actually had a CPAP machine prescribed to me, then I had the sleep study.  Nineteen months post-op and my sleep apnea has decreased, but has not gone away entirely.  I love my CPAP because I now sleep incredibly soundly all night long, I don't doze off during the day or while I'm driving, and I am getting way less sleep than before the surgery.

She definitely needs to get her sleep apnea TREATED immediately, which probably means being set up with a Cpap machine. If by "under control" she means that she wants to make it go away pre-op, well, if they've figured out a way to do that, millions of people will ge happy to hear it! I was diagnosed with sleep apnea as part of my pre-op clearances, and I was put on a Cpap machine. HATED IT, but did it, because I had read the sad stories of people with undiagnosed or untreated sleep apnea dying post-op because of breathing probs. I'm now 2 years out. I've done follow-up with the sleep doc all along, with sleep studies at 1 yr out and recently at 2 yrs out. At my 1 yr test, my machine was dropped to the lowest setting because I was still having moderate symptoms, tho much improved over my first test. On my 2007 sleep study, I was told that my incidents had dropped low enough to make the Cpap OPTIONAL for me! WOOHOO! I have asthma sometimes, and some allergy probs, so anytime my breathing is challenged, I'm supposed to fire that baby back up, and also if I have any surgeries, since anesthesia can affect it also. So I've hung onto my Cpap as I am planning on starting with my plastic surgeries in January 08.

I had sleep apnea and used a CPAP set on 11 each night and at about 7 months I had a followup sleep study and was told to quit using the CPAP because my sleep apnea is completely gone!!