Should there snoring and non-snoring wards in hospitals?

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Lighthearted (kind of) but was admitted to maternity ward last night. Exhausted but couldn't sleep due to extremely loud snorers on either side of me. Can't sleep during the day as she is STILL snoring now.

I find snorers fall asleep quickly so why not lump them together in one ward?

Arghhh I'm at the end of my tether and ready to throw something.

Really there ought to be single person rooms and not wards.

Can someone bring you earplugs? I'm assuming you haven't had the baby yet so no need to listen out for one.

I had the most horrendous night in HDU once due to the two snoring buffalo’s in there with me.
I finally got to sleep at 4am and slept til just before 6. That was the night after major surgery too. Horrid!

I’s have snorers put in a soundproof room!

Ask for some ear plugs,the nurse will give you some and try and get a bit of shut eye now. Hospitals are hellish, if it's not snoring it's night staff shouting at top volume.

Back in the day someone would nudge them being antisocial on wards was never allowed in the 90s i was asleep on a ward and my butt was hanging out apparently because a nurse came over nudged me a little and put an extra sheet onto me because no-one wants to see that side of you dear 😂

There should not be any communal wards in hospitals. Just small single rooms so patients can get half a chance of recovering with some sleep.
I’ve never had worse nights sleep than in hospital, especially on maternity and children’s wards. Completely counter productive. As are the 2 / 4 hourly checks during the night, there needs to be a better system - can’t they find a technology that makes the checks without someone fumbling in with the big machine and disturbing rest, unless absolutely necessary. With all the technology that we now have.

Wouldn't it be great . But totally impossible to do . Guess earplugs your only option .

I agree. I absolutely hate wards. I'm sure outcomes would be quicker and more successful if patients could have a bit of peace and could actually relax and sleep. If single rooms are too problematic, then why not cubicles with three fixed sides to at least give a bit of peace and quiet, if they really can't have four walls inc a door - at least you'd be protected from those either side of you.

@Pricelessadvice that sounds like me last night! Fell asleep around 4 and woke up at 6. I just dropping something 'by accident' but nope ... they snored through it.

@GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing completely agree

@CommissarySushi I have headphones so I put on music but it still didn't drown it out. Havent had baby yet but hope the same thing wont happen when I'm in labour!

I absolutely dread having to go into hospital for this reason. I can't sleep in a noisy environment and snoring winds me up so much.

I recently had an operation and had a single room and it was so so good for my recovery compared to wards. For wards, you can get sleep headphones on Amazon that look like a headband, white noise played through them keeps me sane!

I'm one of the snoring buffaloes and I dread being on a ward.

I know that however friendly everyone is on my first day, but the next morning everyone hates me and it's just horrible. I try and stay awake as long as possible, splash my face, anything. I can't stop the snoring and I desperately wish I could.

I never go on group weekends away with friends for the same reason.

It's not their fault, and it's highly embarrassing.

Try earplugs or my weird trick from boarding school, align your breathing with the snoring. I find that tricks my brain into thinking the noise comes from me, so it tunes it out a bit.

Our hospital is single rooms once admitted for everything eg. Children’s, maternity

So much better, we must be very fortunate

Have you ever been assessed for sleep apnoea? DH’s snoring drove me to madness and I insisted he was assessed - he now has a CPAP machine which he uses at night. It’s a quiet rhythmic noise and we all get a good nights’ sleep now.

I shared a room with women after birth. Her husband stayed and the fing snoring from him. It was that bad the mw came in and moved me to another room without me saying anything

Foam earplugs and snoozemask playo g white noise

Another situation where a (good) pair of noise cancelling headphones are worth their weight in gold.

The technology exists (it's not super accurate but it's ok). It would need single rooms or it would pick up the other patients readings

In answer to the original question. Yes! Staff could ask to work on non snoring ward, people snoring drives me insane

When my dad had a bypass and enquired about a private room his consultant very firmly told him he'd be better off in a ward with other patients looking out for him which was a sobering notion. Certainly true in my grandfather's case, he was blind and put in a private room and was forgotten about, couldn't press the buzzer for help and tried to get off the bed and fell and broke his neck, he didn't ever leave hospital after going in for a minor issue. Very sad.

Even worse on my maternity ward was snoring husbands/partners. They're allowed to stay while the woman and baby are in hospital, but with both kids I insisted mine went home as he's a snorer. Unfortunately most others kept theirs with them (only allowed a chair, no bed) and literally every man snored on our 4 bed ward. I had a devil of a time with my first, and after 5 days in labour with almost no sleep or food, a pretty significant haemorrhage and emergency section, I still barely slept for the 4 nights I was kept in, because of the snoring partners staying the night.
A snoring new mum would've still been annoying to me, but a snoring man hanging around all night and keeping multiple other exhausted women awake? Rage. And of course most of these men were helpless idiots not doing anything to help the mums either. Two couples had massive rows in our ward across the 4 days, mostly due to the blokes being insensitive pricks. One even made the woman take a turn in the chair so he could nap in the hospital bed!

@DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen that's awful, your poor grandfather.

another vote for ”there should be single rooms” like most of the rest of the developed world.

Yeah 😢 I think it must happen a lot hence my dad's consultants advice to stay on the ward.

Same here