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You're probably okay Apnea-wise. As long as you are getting a restful sleep and there are no points where you stop breathing for extended periods. The prominent cause of Apnea is when a back-sleeper's muscles relax and the jaw follows gravity. Then, the soft tissues weighted by the jawbone closes the airway. CPAP inflates the airway, opening it so breathing doesn't stop and no O2 starvation occurs. (CPAP= Constant Positive Airway Pressure) Of course, if the snoring is bad enough there could be other health repercussions due to injury by blunt force trauma from the missus.

All this talk about snoring and apnea. My wife says I snore a lot, but I am a stomach sleeper. Not sure how that works out and how my jaw position could help. CPAP would be a no-go for me because of the sleeping position. Weird, eh?

I'm hoping that if the surgeon confirms that surgery is the way to go, it will involve just trimming away the bone spurs that are pinching the nerve. Someone mentioned disc replacement as well, which sounds a little more drastic. Fusion sounds rough, but I'll get back to @CBaron when I learn more.

Back in 2007 at the age of 35 my wife had C6-C7 fused and it simply went amazing. She was in an enormous amount of acute pain and it was iimmediately healed and its been pretty trouble free outside of her getting reear ended in a car accident (which has lead to a few minor issues with the next lower disc). I've got a bigger longer story of how we got to this poiint and how the Dr alleviated my skeepticism very thoughtfully (and ended up being predictiveely accurate). If yoou are interested then I'm happy to get on the phone with more details. If it can be determined that THIS is whats NEEDED, then I'd highly recommend our Dr. Cheers, CJB

Amazing voice on the tall dude. Never expected to hear that from him.