in wanting to shove my earplugs and my pillow up (D)H's nose if his snoring wakes me once more before 6am?????????

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it is driving me up the frigging wall.

YANBU. In fact, I think you are being very restrained and reasonable.

yanbu. snoring partner really sucks - much as i love my dh in my sleepy state i feel downright violent if his snoring wakes me.

so your dp is waking you up even when wearing earplugs??? time for him to go to the GP - that's not right. poor you.

also can you pop him on the sofa if it happens again?

wax ear plugs AND a feather pillow OVER my head.

Mimsy, if i try send him to the sofa, his mood will be worse than mine! grumpy, loud and extremely unreasonable. i will have to suggest the gp though i have no doubt that that suggestion will go over like a lead balloon

i have even slept on my DS's child's mattress on the floor in DS' room. (two bed house - and i can hear DH upstairs with the bedroom door closed!)

off to pour another cup of coffee.......

YANBU. My dh's snoring drives me mad. There is an operation for extreme snorers, I hope there is some way he can be persuaded to visit the GP.

Dhs snoring sounded like an earthquake. A loud rumbling booming noice. It kept me awake. Luckily, all his snoring issues disappeared when he started exercising and lost quite a bit of weight.

Actually, if your dp is overweight, losing weight might help, rather losing weight than an operation.

I used to kick my ex dp when he snored...it makes them stop..tho he is my ex so maybe not good advice to follow!

Since we moved house last summer my dh has been snoring. For some reason it's not as bad if we leave the window open at night. It makes the bedroom a bit chilly but I'm cozy under the covers and dh doesn't get kicked so much.

i must admit that DH's snoring is lots worse since he has put on weight (we both have, so I am not pointing chubby fingers at him!)

he used to snore only if he'd had a few pints which was very seldom.

now it is every frigging night

get him a mouth-shield from sleeppro.com

Dp is a bastard of a snorer, and suffers sleep aponea and this has honestly changed our life.

Don't go for the expensive 'moulded' option as we find he has to change them every 6 months or so.

also a plug-in sudafed vaporiser thingy helps. saw them for a quid in Poundland recently.

A MAN WRITES:

My Mrs was sawing away like billy-o when I went to bed last night. I gently encouraged her to roll onto her side which did the trick.

I get woken by snoring too - at the moment it's so light by 6:00am that I just get up and have a cup of tea. He's not even over weight, infact he's skinny so I can't suggest he should go on a diet or anything.

No wonder I'm in bed by 10pm most nights.

DH snores sometimes and it really pisses me off. He never used to snore and he hasn't put on weight.

Mind you, he farted so loudly the other night that he woke me up. . Think I prefer the snoring.

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, if someone snores that badly, then they need to go to the GP and ask to be referred to a sleep clinic.

Untreated Sleep Apnoea (which can cause severe snoring) is a serious medical condition that can seriously reduce your life expectancy.

My DH snored like nothing on earth. When I finally shoved him through the GPs door, it turned out that he stopped breathing 85 times an hour during the night, and doubled his blood pressure overnight. He now has a CPAP, and is quiet as a mouse and rather more likely to see 60 than he was.

Theres no need to pay for mouthguards either - they will be provided free by the NHS if OSA is diagnosed and they are deemed to be correct for the snorer

I didn't know that CMOT! He was offered a mask thingy, but we have really young kids and he wasn't comfortable with that (he didn't want to scare them).

First thing they will say is lose the weight, men do put it on around their necks.

And as for Mr OFFS being disturbed by my snoring, given he has managed to sleep though the baby waking up for the past 18 months, its not something I give much consideration to

Ds is totally unworried by DH's mask - he calls it Daddy's puff puff (like his inhalers) and knows that daddy needs it to breathe at night - DS is 2.10 now

With untreated OSA it is very very hard to lose weight as your hormones are all to pot and the leptin levels go up - making you hang onto fat

Has your DH had a sleep study done with the mouthguard in ? If he was offered CPAP, he should also be aware that as far as the DVLA are concerned he has diagnosed, untreated sleep apnoea and would therefore have his license revoked