Hello, I have seen two ENT specialists so far. The results were less than inspiring as they all seem obsessed with sleep apnea which I don t have and is not my issue. My issue is getting to sleep. The last ENT Doc did however point me in the right direction. My issue is this. When I m about to fall alseep at night I make a popping noise in my throat. It s driving me crazy because it always happens as I m drifting off to sleep. As a result I m very lucky if I get 6 hours sleep a day. I decided to figure this out myself as the Doctors (no offence intended) weren t much use. Ironically sleep apnea web sites provided the most useful info. What I discovered is I have a fat tongue and a fairly longe uvula. (mallampati score of 3 or 4) What happens as you fall asleep is the tongue relaxes and slides back and my uvula lies practically horizontally on my tongue when it s relaxed. I m a mouth and a nose breather. I don t sleep well with either one blocked. Anyway as I m falling asleep and breathe out (sometimes in) my uvula pops like a release valve as air is released. I have observed this with a torch whilst emulating the relaxtion of the tongue. I am considering a partial uvelectomy however I am concerned that I may be trading one issue for potentially others. I m about 95% certain I have identified the issue. I would appreciate your thoughts? Thank you.