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People using a CPAP - have you looked at Inspire? [1]. My pulmonologist friend highly recommends it. The device has very high success rate and is now in the 5th generation of development.

https://www.inspiresleep.com/en-us/

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My problem is that I want to avoid surgery at all costs, and the inspire only has a 10 year battery life after which they have to open you up again.

Also the idea of having something implanted in me that zaps me just feels... Weird, compared to just have a regular old tube glued to my nostrils

Is it an implanted device? The website makes it really hard to find out how it is worn, or if it is surgically implanted.

Surgically implanted under the collar bone.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf13/P130008d.pdf

It is implanted. I had a consult to get one and decided without too much uncertainty that it was not for me. I like the other benefits (as noted in other comments) of CPAP that would be lost and my wife doesn't notice the little noise over the fan she runs all night anyway :)

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