[Hacker15e]

Bro, this is not something to be afraid of.

This is something you should be glad was caught, and be happy about the quality of life improvement you will have when your apnea gets fixed.

I went through the same thing about 3 years ago, ended up having the full surgical fix (UPPP and a couple others).

Although recovering from the surgery wasn't all that fun, my sleep quality has been much better since then.

Apnea is fully waiverable for the medical if its symptoms are treated, either through use of the CPAP machine or surgically.

There's a previous thread in the flight doc forum that talks about this, go check it out.