To ask you to save my marriage (or DH’s life) by recommending headphones to drown out snoring!

[MrsSnoreyMcSnoreface]

I love DH, and he is great in many ways, but he snores like a cement truck. In the longer term he knows he needs to go for tests, but in the short term I need something to drown him out! He sleeps in the spare room most of the time (but I can still hear him and anyway it’s not really what we want forever), but we are going to the Lake District for our first holiday since lockdown, and I would dearly love some sleep.

I don’t care what they cost, a good night’s sleep is priceless, so hit me with your recommendations for ear plugs please!

Industrial ear plugs - moldex rockets
Also separate rooms

in the longer term he knows he needs to go for tests

No, not longer term. NOW
DH's snoring got progressively worse until he started with non breathing episdoes. The sleep apnoea got worse, and a sleep study revealed that her was having over 50 episodes of no breathing an hour, some of them lasting up to 2 minutes. The sleep apnoea resulted in a stroke.

Snoring is a health issue and needs to be dealt with. Ear plugs, white noise, or sleeping in another room isn't the answer. He needs to sort out why he snores sooner rather than later.

DH has snored through 20yrs of our married life. I think I have just got used to it as it never wakes me now once I have got to sleep but I 100% have to go to bed first. If for any reason this doesn't happen then I will be lying awake for hours listening to it.
It's the 'not quite rhythmic' thing I hate. It will be regular but there will be occasional pauses that are tortuous and I find myself listening anxiously to these.

I think him losing weight would help (although admittedly he still snored a bit when he was thinner) but he has no motivation. I can say that throat sprays, nose strips and wax ear plugs for me did not help and nor did white noise as I can still hear him above it but I have no helpful suggestions apart from always go to bed first.

I have Bose sleep buds and they are amazing - so comfortable and well worth it!

@RampantIvy

in the longer term he knows he needs to go for tests

No, not longer term. NOW
DH's snoring got progressively worse until he started with non breathing episdoes. The sleep apnoea got worse, and a sleep study revealed that her was having over 50 episodes of no breathing an hour, some of them lasting up to 2 minutes. The sleep apnoea resulted in a stroke.

Snoring is a health issue and needs to be dealt with. Ear plugs, white noise, or sleeping in another room isn't the answer. He needs to sort out why he snores sooner rather than later.

My DP is well within lower BMI for his height

It’s not always lose weight

He would never be given a sleep apnea machine at his build / size.

Separate rooms has worked for us for 10 years now

My DP snores horrifically and earplugs didn't work. He isn't overweight and did get a sleep apoena machine after being referred by gp to sleep clinic who tested him. I wish he'd done it years ago

Has he tried the special tape over the nose strips. It works for us.

Nasal strips.

He would never be given a sleep apnea machine at his build / size.

This is incorrect. DH is underweight. His sleep apnoea is extreme, and he has to use a CPAP machine.

Being overweight isn't always the cause. In fact, the doctors don't know why he has sleep apnoea.

@RampantIvy oh that’s so interesting thanks

Tried everything. Finally at the end of my tether came the ultimatum - get your arse to the GP. GP was all: "Lose some weight, come back to me." Three times. Super unhelpful as my partner was trying to lose weight. Exercising, diet, PT... Finally a locum listened. He was diagnosed with sleep apnoea. Got a CPAP machine. Dropped two stone ridiculously quickly. We both actually sleep at night, and get to make Darth Vader jokes every night. This was six years ago. My partner looks and feels 10 years younger. Doesn't have a grey pallor. And isn't single. He definitely nearly was.

Cant comment much but husbands snoring (overweight, too much drink) meant separate bedrooms. Not great for marriage.