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Holiday snoring

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SummerLovin123 · 16/08/2022 22:52

Help me mumsnet!
About to go to the most beautiful resort with DH & kids. We have all been looking forward to it all year.

The thing is DH snores like a tractor. At home he sleeps in the spare room so I can get some sleep.

I can hear him from upstairs. The thing is we won't have a spare room at this resort.

I will take earplugs. But I can hear him through them. Arrrrgh. I don't know what to do 😢

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Christinatheastonishing · 16/08/2022 22:57

Earplugs + white noise (fan, app on your phone) + sleeping pill for you.

Mouthguard thing from Boots for him. He will need a few days to get used to it before you leave.

A580Hojas · 16/08/2022 23:02

Apparently taping your mouth shut at night helps a lot with snoring. You can get special mouth shaped tapes but I've seen internet threads about just using common or garden micropore tape. Or even an elastoplast in an emergency.

amicissimma · 16/08/2022 23:04

As Christinatheastonishing said. Earplugs + white noise. I play the white noise through sleepphones. You can download it onto your phone, buy a special white noise generator or buy a small mp3 player and put some on there. Be aware that the battery running out before dawn is really annoying; I'd advise corded earphones to save battery drain.

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Luredbyapomegranate · 16/08/2022 23:05

Have you got the silicon earplugs not just the foam ones?

And get him to try those strips from
boots

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SummerLovin123 · 16/08/2022 23:06

A580Hojas · 16/08/2022 23:02

Apparently taping your mouth shut at night helps a lot with snoring. You can get special mouth shaped tapes but I've seen internet threads about just using common or garden micropore tape. Or even an elastoplast in an emergency.

Duct tape? 🤣

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SummerLovin123 · 16/08/2022 23:06

Christinatheastonishing · 16/08/2022 22:57

Earplugs + white noise (fan, app on your phone) + sleeping pill for you.

Mouthguard thing from Boots for him. He will need a few days to get used to it before you leave.

He has a mouth guard & still snores

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SummerLovin123 · 16/08/2022 23:07

Luredbyapomegranate · 16/08/2022 23:05

Have you got the silicon earplugs not just the foam ones?

And get him to try those strips from
boots

I can hear him through ear plugs

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SummerLovin123 · 16/08/2022 23:08

amicissimma · 16/08/2022 23:04

As Christinatheastonishing said. Earplugs + white noise. I play the white noise through sleepphones. You can download it onto your phone, buy a special white noise generator or buy a small mp3 player and put some on there. Be aware that the battery running out before dawn is really annoying; I'd advise corded earphones to save battery drain.

Oooh sleep phones look good thanks!

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lastminutedotcom22 · 16/08/2022 23:19

Is it a hotel?

Book another room??

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SummerLovin123 · 17/08/2022 08:28

lastminutedotcom22 · 16/08/2022 23:19

Is it a hotel?

Book another room??

Too late.

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Sahara123 · 17/08/2022 09:43

I have custom made silicone ear plugs from Specsavers , they definitely are much better than foam ones and have completely saved my sanity over 30 odd years of snoring.
I too got to the stage of thinking about where I could go to sleep when we went away . Horrendous.

ihatebojo · 17/08/2022 17:38

This is too late for your holiday but DH was like this. It was awful. Turned out he had sleep apnea. He uses a machine, and it's just incredibly silent.

)After 20 years of sleeping next to a snorer like your DH, I now can't sleep as I wake up worried that he isn't breathing....)

In all seriousness, get him to see the GP. (It took me over a decade of nagging before mine relented).

MaryGubbins · 17/08/2022 17:44

I bought Bose sleep buds for exactly this reason after years of sleeping on couch (or the bathroom floor) on holiday.Sleep buds

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SummerLovin123 · 17/08/2022 17:57

ihatebojo · 17/08/2022 17:38

This is too late for your holiday but DH was like this. It was awful. Turned out he had sleep apnea. He uses a machine, and it's just incredibly silent.

)After 20 years of sleeping next to a snorer like your DH, I now can't sleep as I wake up worried that he isn't breathing....)

In all seriousness, get him to see the GP. (It took me over a decade of nagging before mine relented).

He went to the GP. They said drink less and lose weight.

Guess what? He didn't 🙄

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SummerLovin123 · 17/08/2022 18:08

@amicissimma have ordered the sleep phones 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

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JellyBabiesSaveLives · 17/08/2022 19:05

My dh used to snore horribly whenever he’d had a drink. I used to ask him not to drink. He’d complain and say that wasn’t fair. I said it wasn’t fair that I didn’t get to sleep …

Then he got ill, got put on life-saving medication that gives him reflux as a side effect. Tried various solutions to the reflux at night, the only one that works is sleeping on a wedge shaped pillow, so sloping up. The beautiful, amazing effect of this has been that he doesn’t snore. It’s fantastic. He has an inflatable wedge pillow for holidays 😆

Mykittensmittens · 17/08/2022 19:10

We just had a holiday where we had a family room but the kids sofa beds had a little sliding door thing.

I ended up with 2 kids and me in the big bed and he had the sofa. With the little doors closed and aircon on, exhausted kids and late night and wine, all 3 of us slept while he moaned and grumbled about his sofa bed. We could still hear it but not as bad.

was still a better arrangement than the alternative.

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SummerLovin123 · 17/08/2022 19:49

JellyBabiesSaveLives · 17/08/2022 19:05

My dh used to snore horribly whenever he’d had a drink. I used to ask him not to drink. He’d complain and say that wasn’t fair. I said it wasn’t fair that I didn’t get to sleep …

Then he got ill, got put on life-saving medication that gives him reflux as a side effect. Tried various solutions to the reflux at night, the only one that works is sleeping on a wedge shaped pillow, so sloping up. The beautiful, amazing effect of this has been that he doesn’t snore. It’s fantastic. He has an inflatable wedge pillow for holidays 😆

Where did you get that from????

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SummerLovin123 · 17/08/2022 19:49

Mykittensmittens · 17/08/2022 19:10

We just had a holiday where we had a family room but the kids sofa beds had a little sliding door thing.

I ended up with 2 kids and me in the big bed and he had the sofa. With the little doors closed and aircon on, exhausted kids and late night and wine, all 3 of us slept while he moaned and grumbled about his sofa bed. We could still hear it but not as bad.

was still a better arrangement than the alternative.

I can hear my DH from 2 floors up at home 🙈

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SummerLovin123 · 17/08/2022 19:52

@JellyBabiesSaveLives hope your DH is ok now 🙏

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OneFrenchEgg · 17/08/2022 20:00

It's awful isn't it? Just back from having to sleep next to dh as he snorted, huffed and gasped all night. I'm sick of it - he also saw the GP who told him to lose weight and he's carried on with the crap diet, occasionally moaning about it.
It's so selfish. He resents being woken up by me kicking him but it's fine for me to never sleep a full night again.

alwaysstressed · 17/08/2022 20:06

Sellotape a tennis ball to his back.

My husband always snores if he's sleeping on his back but he doesn't if he's sleeping on his side.
The ball keeps them on their side.

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SummerLovin123 · 17/08/2022 20:17

OneFrenchEgg · 17/08/2022 20:00

It's awful isn't it? Just back from having to sleep next to dh as he snorted, huffed and gasped all night. I'm sick of it - he also saw the GP who told him to lose weight and he's carried on with the crap diet, occasionally moaning about it.
It's so selfish. He resents being woken up by me kicking him but it's fine for me to never sleep a full night again.

Mine has been on the sofa for a while.

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SummerLovin123 · 17/08/2022 20:18

It was live with a sleep deprived peri menopausal wife or the sofa 🤷🏻‍♀️

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OneFrenchEgg · 17/08/2022 20:33

Mine resents being asked to do that. It's the only selfish part of his interactions, that I should be impacted by his issue.

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