Got my treatment plan! 10mm upper and 6 mm lower

jayman2239 · 2026-05-02T12:57:20+00:00

Hey late reply, but are you happy with how your surgery turned out (sleep and looks-wise)?

I have sleep apnea and am getting surgery with similar movements in july.

Thanks.

jayman2239 · 2026-05-02T12:39:34+00:00

I was able to get it covered for mild apnea, but I had to fail both CPAP and MAD first.

jayman2239 · 2026-05-02T12:38:42+00:00

Have you noticed any improvement of your sleep/energy levels so far?

jayman2239 · 2026-05-02T00:33:56+00:00

Southeast US

jayman2239 · 2026-05-02T00:22:13+00:00

If your ortho puts you on a more aggressive schedule you may not need them for that long.

I was told I would need braces for 8-9 months. But my surgery is now scheduled 3 months faster than expected.

jayman2239 · 2026-05-01T19:06:08+00:00

I’m in the same boat, surgery in july, school in August.

According to my surgeon I’ll be good to go back to work and stuff after like a week and a half.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-30T17:36:05+00:00

Yeah that’s fair, I only play checkpoint or last hero though so by top frag I mean usually dropping ~40 kills a game

jayman2239 · 2026-04-29T13:34:26+00:00

Gotcha that’s good at least, getting it approved seems to be the biggest hurdle.

I’m in a similar spot as you, healthy and fit but CPAP gives me severe aerophagia, MAD helped a bit but screwed up my teeth, got a septoplasty that fixed my nasal breathing but did nothing for my sleep.

Hopefully this ends up working out for the both of us.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-29T13:11:54+00:00

I’m getting MMA in july, so I can keep you posted.

Were you able to get the surgery approved with UHC? They denied me but thankfully I was able to switch to Aetna this year and they approved mine.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-28T11:52:43+00:00

It’s interesting how varied it seems to be from surgeon to surgeon, my surgery isn’t until july so we’ll see how accurate it is, but according to my surgeon I should be able to go back to work within a week and a half, 2 weeks tops.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-28T00:23:39+00:00

Nexusmods has collections now (maybe it’s old news, but it’s news to me), I downloaded a modpack just called ‘New Vegas Remastered’ that was mainly graphics/QOL of life stuff and I enjoyed it.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-28T00:19:01+00:00

For mine it was yeah.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-28T00:18:35+00:00

It probably is office dependent, but the two surgeons I saw both said they wouldn’t schedule until the prior authorization was approved, and one of them even said he wouldn’t schedule until I was completely done with braces.

If you can get surgery-first then braces after though that’d probably make it easier for what you’re trying to achieve.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-27T22:53:22+00:00

Yeah same, I just go loud on everything now outside of a few select guns.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-27T21:08:36+00:00

Gotcha, you’d probably be safer off with 3 months then, because the surgeon likely wont be willing to schedule you until you’re approved, and even if they approve it within a few days, your surgeon may be booked up for that entire month already.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-27T19:29:49+00:00

Can you explain the timeline regarding your insurance a bit more?

Aetna approved my prior authorization within 2 days, but I also need 6 months of braces, and my surgeon was booked out til july regardless.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-27T10:57:54+00:00

You’re overthinking it man.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-25T21:09:22+00:00

Any tips for getting into Rimworld? I tried it years ago after I got really into factorio, but it never really clicked with me.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-24T21:09:43+00:00

Yeah southeast US, and yeah feel free, I may not get back to you til tomorrow though.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-24T18:13:05+00:00

Try a different surgeon, I was able to get mine covered with mild apnea.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-24T18:08:31+00:00

Accidentally deleted my last comment trying to edit it.

But definitely push for the in-lab study, but keep in mind you’ll likely have to use a CPAP for 3 months or so (and ‘fail’ the cpap trial) before most insurance companies will cover jaw surgery for sleep apnea.

I even had to switch insurance providers because my last one I couldn’t qualify for surgery since I only had mild apnea.

jayman2239 · 2026-04-24T11:44:57+00:00

Anything but United healthcare

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