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Please help me before I totally lose my shit!

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sav3m3 · 29/09/2018 15:30

How do people cope with their partners snoring? Like genuinely how do you deal with it as it's driving me mad!! I normally fall asleep first which is fine, but I often wake up during the night most nights and then can't get back to sleep as DP is doing impressions of some kind of demented walrus

Even the neighbours have commented that they've heard it!

We've tried me wearing earplugs but I can still hear it slightly through that which is enough to keep me awake. Tried sleeping in the spare bedroom but I can still hear him and also when I'm downstairs on the sofa. Nose strips and nose spray helped a bit but not completely. He is slightly overweight which is what I think probably causes it but he's quite sensitive bout that so can't really push that he needs to lose weight

At the moment I've been going with the method of waking him up every time he's snoring (around 48000 times per night) and hoping that will annoy him enough that he will stay awake long enough for me to go to sleep but that never happens and I end up lying there fantasising about hitting him with the bedside light or something similar

Please tell me there's something that will help or is my only option to cave his head in? Grin

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category12 · 29/09/2018 15:34

Has he been to the GP?

instamummy · 29/09/2018 15:32

My DH is the same - then adds insult to injury by telling me he doesn’t snore. 😒. If it’s teally bad I send him to the spare room, but that’s only recently become an option. Used to be the sofa!

Happygummibear · 29/09/2018 15:32

You can get him shields that help with snoring....

Or you can do what Helena Bonham Carter did.... by the house next door

Or smother him with a pillow

Marie0 · 29/09/2018 15:31

get him to gargle mouthwash - it opens up the throat a bit to reduce the noise