Aibu to do my husband in on Valentine's Day?!!

[thishouseisashittip]

For the love of god please make the snoring stop arrrgghhh 😖

Sew tennis balls to the back of his pajamas? This stops them from rolling onto their back apparently, as being on their back doesn't help. Can you still them anti snoring strips that you stick to the nose? Or as my says use a pillow and hold till noise stops lol.

Should be as my mum says.

Gum shield! They’re about a fiver on eBay. He can mould it at home himself and it works by realigning his jaw so the snoring isn’t so bad. It’s worked wonders for my DH and our marriage!

With earplugs I found I have to put them in when I go to bed, they're not so effective if I wake up and put them in.

Pink foam Noise X ones (Amazon) are the best I've found.

Hi everybody thanks for all the replies 🙂. I am going to pop to the chemist and get the spray and give that a go. Also hunt out an anti snore pillow, aldi had some last week so hopefully they still have.
I feel you pain IAMHAVING, in our old house I was relegated to the sofa 90% of the time (they always do that thing when you get up to go to different room don't they " oh love where are you going? I will go" " I am up now don't worry" "no I will go" (still not moving!!) "no seriously I am up now and need the fuckin loo😡 you stay there and sleep!!" (Back snoring before you even leave the room!) anyway it was a three storey ex council house (we converted the loft) and no spare room there him in the bedroom right at the top and me on sofa in lounge at bottom. Total silence 🤗 absolute bliss😴.

Re going to the docs I think I will have to persuade him 😕

That's meant to say our old house was a three storey house.

Can confirm throat spray will work wonders!! DH uses a Snoreeze one (I think) and it lubricates his throat so he doesn't snore. Marriage saver, has stopped us sleeping in separate bedrooms.

Earplugs,and a nytol from over the counter at the chemist,you're not supposed to take them long term but they'll certainly give you a few decent nights sleep.😊🌻

A couple of thoughts.

Firstly, is sleep apnoea a possibility? If he does have that (big if but worth asking) then he will need a CPAP mask that maintains pressure in his airway when asleep and should reduce / eliminate snoring.

The second one may sound a bit weird, but get him to learn the style of yoga breathing called ujjayi - my yoga teacher called it 'Darth Vader breathing'. Basically he would need to do it as a form of long term exercise. It has the side effect of strengthening the throat muscles and when I did it, it made my snoring significantly better.

Good luck!

I feel for you, I really really do!

I put earplugs in which only work if I get to sleep before he starts snoring, I can't hear him talking next to me with them in but I sure as hell can hear him snoring through them!

I have tried snore pillows, those gumshield things (£200 fully customised one might I add!), nasal strips, nasal sprays, kicking him, threatening to suffocate him.

Sleeping in another room doesn't work because I can still hear him bellowing through the floor or through the wall (even with the earplugs in!!)

NOTHING works. He's been for a checkup, he doesn't have sleep apnoea, he doesn't drink or smoke, he isn't overweight.

There's literally nothing medical wrong with him, doctors just say its the way he's made.

FML

My husband snores like this and I totally feel for you, it is horrendously frustrating!
He took an online test (bear with me) which told him what 'type' of snorer he is... options I recall were nasal and oral but there was a few different types. Then, they recommend the treatment based upon that. For him, they recommended a mouth guard and as sceptical as I was, it works!! Genuinely stops the snoring dead.
We had tried countless options - over the counter meds, nose strips, doctor visits, you name it, and his is the one and only thing that works.
Life changing!

EllJ, was this the test you took?

snoreeze.com/diagnose-your-snoring/

My DH snores rhythmically. So I tie my breathing to it as a relaxation technique and use it to get me to sleep.

I second the gum shield. It's helped my husband. He still snores but it's at least quiet now.

When I was younger my dad used to keep the whole house up snoring it was ridiculous so my mum bought like a watch type thing that he wore at night and it gave him a little shock every time he snored too loudly! He obviously only wore it for a couple of nights but was quite amusing.

Sellotape ping pong balls to his back 😝 No idea if it works, but i saw someone on a film strap tins to a roommates back, seemed to help - apparently its worse if they sleep on their back?

@eniledam not sure if it was this specific one but def. something similar. It took him through a couple of exercises like asking him to hold one nostril and breathe, stick tongue to roof of mouth and breathe then gave an answer at the end. He's since bought cheaper replacement mouthguards and providing they are the mouldable ones they all work.

I'm the snoring one. My poor DH says it's like sleeping next to a freight train. Not even normal snores but throat/nose ripping snores. My DB is the same.

I nudge DH with my feet and pretend to be asleep if he wakes up haha!!