dh snoring wtf do I do?

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He's always snored but it's getting worse - every night chain saw for the past 6 months. He gets up at 6am to go to work so I am exhausted. If I wake him he says I am yelling at him and he can't help it. But if I don't, I lie awake listening to the bed shake til I drop off from exhaustion at about 430am. What to do?

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I recommend bio-ears earplugs. They're more expensive than foam ones, but loads better. You can get them in some branches of Boots.

I second 5318008 - my dhs snoring was a joke to all our friends for years. No one else would share a room with him.
I eventually got him to go to the gp, and he was diagnosed with sleep apnoea - and very severely. OSA is now known to have a strong link to stroke, heart disease and and number of other things. Being treated means he'll live past 50 which his consultant thinks he'd have been dead by otherwise

CMOT, great post about the dangers of snoring, I am glad DH went to his GP

Thank you op for raising this issue I am currently going trough this at the moment.

I demanded oh buy snoring stuff from boots two weeks ago he is no longer useing them despite them helping he claims it's giving him night mares

I am tally lost I am so tired I almost brunt my self last week whilest cooking and he IS NOT TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY at all

He is like a god dam fog horn

so far my dh has tried nose strips, mouth guard, things you shove up your nose... none of them work.

Ear-plugs never work for me though plenty of people suggest using them.

Op I second the ear plugs, they have made a huge difference to the amount of sleep I get and I wish I had bought them years ago.

I feel your pain, my husband can snore in any position & won't go to the doctor as he says he'll just be told to lose weight. I have sent him to the sofa bed when it's been very bad but there are times when I lie in bed & just want to cry

Being overweight, drinking before bed and smoking main causes. Does any of this apply?

My dh snores but has recently taken up running and lost some weight, he's also stopped drinking and it's improved a lot.

MrsHelsBels74 read out the post from CMOT to your DH

Lollopy I know EXACTLY what you mean re that other noise...it's sort of breathy and flappy and...wet. V weird.

In the cold light of morning, DH has promised to go to the gp but (like the other poster) they will tell him to lose the tum I think. He doesn't smoke & drinks v little. I will buy the strips for him too - and definitely a sofa bed!

She traced a finger from his brown
Down to his cheeck
Where she left a little peck

Then she pinched his nostrils shut
Elbowed him in the ribs
And griped

Boo, you're snoring again!

Brow not brown!

Bio ears. Can get them at Boots, DH is like a fucking chainsaw.

I utterly feel your pain. DP thinks I'm lying but I'm really not, so I will be stealing the recording idea.

Another earplugger here. I get mine from Superdrug. Amazingly, I can ear DS through them but not DH. If I wake up in the night, I can hear DH snoring but not enough for me not to get back to sleep.

DH has had all sorts of treatments for his snoring. This includes two lots of surgery. It worked for a while and then came back.

He doesn't drink or smoke and is not overweight although his weight does yo-yo and the snoring is much worse when he put on the fat. He's not a bloater though.

I am a bluddy martyr I tell you I've put up with it for years.

We can't even share a hotel room if we go away together.

I'm lucky that we have a spare room that I can get away to when the noise starts. I have even been known to lie awake, with ear plugs, listening to him do his chainsaw imitation, in another room.

I have cried.

flapping, wet breathing is very typical of osa.
And if you have osa, its very hard to lose weight when it is untreated, so the request is to go to a sleep clinic (note, not an ENT, you need a sleep specialist) and see about whether they have osa first. Do not get fobbed off.

Apparently, surgery rarely works

Can you wake him up and tell him to go downstairs? Can you go downstairs? I usually take evasive action if mine starts but that's only once in a while and I take myself off to the spare room.
Or make him an appointment at the quack's. Or the threat of divorce.

Haven't read the whole thread, but as a singing teacher previously I trained some people who snored out of the habit by helping them to tone the muscles in their soft palate (the bit of your mouth just before the dangling down bit by your throat). A few months of singing lessons can make the world of difference.

stress makes it worse
I know someone who has tried everything and has a special pillow that feels like it's full of cherry stones, it's full size but I can't find it online at the moment.

Something my MiL told me was to make him cut out dairy products in the evening. DH used to have a cup of milk before bed, once I'd banned it, it lessened the snoring.

I also have a humidifier running some nights to help with Asthma/hay fever - it has the happy side effect of helping DH too.

My DP snores real bad.
Used to shout at me for waking him, it's not my fault he said. Stop waking him ! Bloody cheek.
So ...... I recorded him on my phone, when he was getting snuggled down for a kip, I played it, he was shocked that it was such a racket !!
Then, put pillow behind him so couldn't roll onto back
Problem continued until the bugger lost weight.
No neck rolls, no snoring ! Phew !

My mate bought a ring from this site www.goodnightsnoring.com and it's worked apparently. Some nights she still hears him but in general he's quiet or just snores quieter!

Mr Palooza snores, talks in his sleep, grinds his teeth, makes weird sucking noises (which at one point I thought were seizures) and, I think, has sleep apnoea. He's skinny, but a smoker (as am I) and drinks too much. Doesn;t matter which way he lies, he snores.

I am going to persuade him to give up smoking v soon as I want to give up.

In my experience, the only thing that helps is to a) go to sleep before him and b) wear good ear plugs. The wax ones are the best.