Snoring neighbour

[Seventytwoseventythree]

I have new upstairs neighbours (flat) and one of them snores SO LOUDLY that it keeps me awake and sometimes wakes me up too. I can still hear it through foam earplugs and I have been using wax and silicon ones but they make my ears itch after a few nights.

Neighbours are a young couple, no obvious health problems, slim so I think it’s unlikely to be due to sleep apnoea.

I am quite a light sleeper and will be woken by car doors slamming in the street and similar, but my DH finds this annoying too (though it doesn’t keep him awake 🙄) so not just me being weird!

What can I do? It’s a one bed flat so I can’t sleep in a different room really. Should I say something? Given that it’s a couple I assume their partner has already told them (and either has the patience of a saint or is deaf). I feel like they need to wear one of those anti snoring devices or even see an ENT doctor and work out what’s causing it. It’s driving me mad!

This is so stupid. It's a non-issue. Next you'll be saying they shouldn't sneeze so loudly.

Well you will know if you wake them as the snoring will stop. If you keep waking them, eventually they will do something about the snoring.

Well you will know if you wake them as the snoring will stop. If you keep waking them, eventually they will do something about the snoring.

But what can they do? I'd love to know coz I'd use it to stop DH. If you could stop snoring, you'd be a millionaire overnight.

I'm a light sleeper and it would drive me mad too! Try a white noise machine - I use one to counteract the hum of my neighbour's boiler and it does work.

This is so stupid. It's a non-issue

You swap places with the OP then!

And there are things that can be done for snoring. It's not an incurable disease.

They could do something about the soundproofing in their home, get some type of nasal device, see their GP about it etc.

The OP has taken steps already and they haven't worked out. It has to be horrendous to live with that night after night.

I feel your pain, in my case it is my dp and it is awful.

He is asthmatic and poor position in bed makes it worse.

Ultimately there is nothing you can do except address your own sleep problem. As frustrating as it is, they don't snore just for the fun if it! (not that that fact stops me from kicking dp or jabbing him hard in the ribs in the vain hope he shuts up long enough for me to sleep)

Is there a way to swap your flat round so the bedroom is under theirs?

Find leaflets on as many stop snoring cures as possible and put in their letterbox

There isn’t much you can do, it would be like complaining about a baby crying. It disturbs your sleep but cant be helped.

My neighbours are loud. And walls are thin. I hear them talking, slamming doors, arguing, having sex, singing, snoring and sneezing!!

I have found a white noise machine helps.

Classical music on loudly enough to cover the noise? We have to do this because of a generically loud neighbour who is usually up till gone midnight.
Fully sympathise though, I hate the sound of snoring, I shudder thinking about it.

I use ear plugs and noise cancelling headphones.

A pharmacist in the USA recommended melatonin when I was over there and trying desperately to sleep in the same room as dh and adult ds who both sounded like angry pigs.

It worked so well for me that I continued to take it when I got back to the uk. Dh can snore all he likes now because I just sleep through it.

For the first time in about ten years we've actually been able to sleep in the same bed. It's bloody marvelous.

Only downside is you can't buy it in the UK so I have to have it sent over.