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stub1969
stub1969 Member Posts: 986 Member
in Kidney Cancer #1

Prior to my surgery in August 2016, I was a pretty heavy sleeper and snored.  In fact I'd snore so loud that my kids would tease me the next day because they'd say they could hear me snoring all the way in down the hall to their bedrooms..  I also would get picked on by my wife often about my snoring.  Well, after my surgery I no longer snore.  Now I'm waking up a couple times a week because my wife is snoring.  It's kind of fun returning all the teasing she gave me over the years.   I guess I just have to mark it up as another strange result of my surgery.

Stub

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  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #2
    Sounds like a good side

    Sounds like a good side-effect lol!!!

  • icemantoo
    icemantoo Member Posts: 3,361 Member
    #3
    Could be

    I had bad snoring and it went away over 10 years later when I lost 70 pounds. Could be weight loss.

     

     

    Icemantoo

  • stub1969
    stub1969 Member Posts: 986 Member
    #4
    Weight loss

    That can't be it.  I'm 6 foot and weigh 180 with athletic build.  I've weighed the same for over 30 years--well I guess I drop to about 175 when I put in a lot of miles training for a running race.  I find it so strange that my snoring just stopped after my surgery.  I can't explain it.  I'm still sleeping peacefully, but wake up occationally to the beautiful sound of my wife snoring.  She didn't believe me that she was snoring until I recorded her one night with my phone (That didn't earn me husband of the year honors).  Like I said--it's fun (and funny) getting her back for teasing me for several years.

    Stub

  • lcsvb
    lcsvb Member Posts: 41 Member
    #5
    Another strange side benefit of the tumor removal

    Stub, maybe the throat tube in surgery stretched something in there that was restricting or flapping making you snore?  Another odd one is that I had hypothyroidism and hyperparathyroidism and both went back to normal following my partial nephrectomy. Almost 2 years later and my blood levels are still normal with no meds. I wonder if the iodine contrast in the CT scans supercharges my thyroid gland? About the time I had my first scan that found the tumor, I had been jittery and I questioned that my levels may have changed some then. Fast Forward to surgery 2 months later and completely normal levels! Also, I read that renal cell carcinomas can secrete a parathyroid hormone mimic and raise those levels. Who knows why, but I will take it!

  • Manufred
    Manufred Member Posts: 241 Member
    edited October 2017 #6
    And then there eye-sight.

    Seeing we're sharing anecdotes, I started wearing glasses for shortsightedness from around the time I turned 50.  I had a tumourous kidney removed when I was 61 and found that my eyesight returned to normal shortly after (except for reading, which I will concede is age-related).  Anyone with a similar story?

    Unfortunately, I still snore like a trooper.

     

  • stub1969
    stub1969 Member Posts: 986 Member
    #7
    lcsvb said:

    Another strange side benefit of the tumor removal

    Stub, maybe the throat tube in surgery stretched something in there that was restricting or flapping making you snore?  Another odd one is that I had hypothyroidism and hyperparathyroidism and both went back to normal following my partial nephrectomy. Almost 2 years later and my blood levels are still normal with no meds. I wonder if the iodine contrast in the CT scans supercharges my thyroid gland? About the time I had my first scan that found the tumor, I had been jittery and I questioned that my levels may have changed some then. Fast Forward to surgery 2 months later and completely normal levels! Also, I read that renal cell carcinomas can secrete a parathyroid hormone mimic and raise those levels. Who knows why, but I will take it!

    Snoring

    You know, that makes sense.  I didn't put two and two together with this part of surgery.  The anesthesiologist evaluated me prior to surgery.  She looked in my throat, among other things, and went through a long list of things for her part of the surgery.  Perhaps the throat tube is what cured me of my snoring.  

    Thanks for the enlightenment.

    Stub 

  • foxhd
    foxhd Member Posts: 3,181 Member
    #8
    too bad...

    the catheter didn't offer the same benefit

  • stub1969
    stub1969 Member Posts: 986 Member
    edited October 2017 #9
    Fox

    Wink

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