Which is worse?

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My C-pap trials have not worked.. 6 weeks, 3x sleeping through the night with it and not lately. I've tried everything, including 5 masks. This sucks. It's my sensory issues due to Asperger Syndrome that make the mask impossible to tolerate.

Which is worse?

(A) 3x greater chance of stroke or heart attack, 5% chance of dying during sleep OR

(B) extremely painful and involved surgery that makes my airway larger--takes 2-3 weeks recovery time and only has a 40% success rate (unless you do another procedure after, that makes it 75%.)

Thoughts? I know I need to make this decision myself. It's easier just to pretend it isn't a problem..

but I keep waking up between 3-5 am and can't fall back to sleep... and then I end up napping off and on all day.. and I wake up with headaches.

I have severe sleep apnea.

You know, I think that's a very personal decision that depends all on what you want from life and death and how much you can stand/how much pain you can stand.

I'd do this

plus the other procedure to guarantee as high a success rate as possible.

But then I'd also personally prefer to live longer and be in severe horrible pain for a super short amount of time than risk the chance of dying more likely than is already typical. Do you mind the chance of dropping over dead tomorrow or in 5 or 30 years? I do very very much, that's what it does for me even though the alternative might be super painful.

Thanks for your response.

I'm leaning towards thinking you are right, but it does seem like a pretty drastic thing to do to oneself.

I'd agree with Sora's opinion. Yes it is a big thing, though to my mind it (b) seems the better of two options.