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To be pissed off at the lack of quality anti-snore products available?

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EverySingleStar · 01/10/2009 15:35

Partner snores. Every night. Constantly. Not super-loudly to make me think there's a problem, but enough to seriously grate on my patience. I am a pretty heavy sleeper so while she doesn't normally wake me up, it takes me hours to drift off. To fall asleep for 11pm I have to go to bed at 9 .

We have tried the nose strips (don't stick on, and when they do - don't work), the wafer-thin mentholated strips for the top of the mouth (on the plus side, DP's breath smells nice while her mouth is open snoring ), the cough-medicine-esque substance (bleugh).

I've heard surgery is possible but is expensive, painful, and in some cases donesn't even work . We've reached boiling point because the only thing that provides 2 minutes of relief is me shoving her onto her opposite side (much to her chagrin and shouting as she gets woken up too), but then it's right back to snoring again.

I'm just so bloody annoyed that these products cost upwards of £10 and don't provide any relief. AIBU in that or is there some miraculous product I'm missing?

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EverySingleStar · 01/10/2009 17:03

Christmas do you not find the vibrations of snoring wake you up? I've found this

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ChunkyMonkeysMum · 01/10/2009 17:18

My DH snores like an absolute pig every night!! He has sleep apnoea too & makes this horrible squeaky noise along with a horrible rasping. I've come close to killing him numerous times!
It got to the point where we were having so many rows about it because we were both getting hardly any sleep that I kicked him out of our room suggested he should maybe sleep in the spare room, which he did. We both got a full nights sleep & our relationship has been much better since. However, since DS2 was born (oh yes, we manage to "get together" occasionally ), DH now sleeps on a blow up bed in the lounge
Have thought about trying this though as theres a money back guarantee if it doesn't work.

positiveattitudeonly · 01/10/2009 17:25

Definitely try the ring. It works here too. Had to really take a deep breath to pay the £35 for it as I was fed up with the other remedies wasting my money, but the ring works, so worth every penny. Plus only pay once and as long as you don't lose it down a drain like we did you will never have to pay out again.

Sassybeast · 01/10/2009 17:26

Fellow sufferer here DH is now seeing an ENT consultant. He had an overnight oxygen monitor thing strapped to his finger to rule out sleep apnoea (he doen't have it) and is now trying an anti allergy tablet daily and a nasal spray to see if his snoring is allergy related. We've had a few really good nights so far but still not all clear. Trying to time the nasal spray just right seems to make a difference. If this doesn't work after 3 months the next stage will be surgery but I really am not keen for him to go through that BUT surviving on little sleep is now affecting my own health. Last night wa sawful and my head is full of fog today - combined with 2 pre schoolers who aren't relaible sleepers and an older one with night terrors! There are nights when I could, quite literally, smother him - so i end up downstairs on a cold, narrow, leather sofa. dH is VERY grumpy if he gets woken up so will only tolerate 1 or 2 pokes, but even turning on his side now doesn't seem to work He is definately much worse if he has a beer or glass of wine in the evening but isn't quite prepared to give up alcohol just yet....
So my advice is her GP.

christmasmum · 01/10/2009 17:26

Perhaps he's not as bad as I think he is! Vibrations have never been a problem for me.

pjmama · 01/10/2009 18:09

Speak to your dentist about whether or not they can make her an anti-snoring device, such as the Sleepwell device from Solutions4Snoring. I've heard of good results from this type of thing.

www.s4sdental.com/Solutions_4_Snoring/

busybutterfly · 01/10/2009 19:31

So glad I found this thread - DH is a very loud snorer and it is quite impossible to sleep through. I threw him out of bed last night after I'd been woken up countless times!
everysinglestar I have to say, I am gutted you're female - I really thought here we had a wife who was driving her DH mad!!!

twentyoneagain · 01/10/2009 19:37

I have found the wax earplugs from Boots work the best. You have to warm them up and soften them but they block out more sound than the foam ones for me.

freename · 01/10/2009 20:03

well I'm googling all these products.....
....and er I really feel the snorer should be kicked out of the master bed. Very unfair that snoree should have to suffer disturbed sleep and an eviction. I refuse to leave our bed. He has the problem, he has to go .
Sassybeast, poor you, having to go up and downstairs with DCs night wakings.
Not sure about the teeth guard (think they are touting something similar as a non cosmetic facelift - trains your lower jaw muscles while you sleep). Am tempted by the acupuncture thing on the finger. Agree about surgery - gives me the heebeegeebees, just seems a bit extreme especially when described as a drilling!
Seona1973 no allergies I'm aware of, having said that we've never gone down this route so worth a look. Someone else said the nasal spray helped.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 02/10/2009 09:01

My dh had sleep apnoea that caused him to gasp really loudly and jump out of bed, add that to the incessant snoring at a ridiculously loud decibel level and I was ready to kill him. He had the nasal strips which worked out well but were costly and weren't solving the problem. He went to a sleep clinic and they found he was waking between 80 and 100 times a night. He had a deviated septum so had a septoplasty (drilling). Much improved our sleep times. Another thing the consultant recommended was sewing balls into an old t.shirt so he couldn't go onto his back. We found that cutting the leg off a pair of tights, putting a couple of tennis balls into them and then making two holes in the tshirt, threading the legs through the holes and tieing them up inside works brilliantly particlularly if he's been to the pub.

Morloth · 02/10/2009 09:21

Earplugs saved my husband's life.

abra1d · 02/10/2009 09:26

The British Snoring website is good. Actually there are some very good quality nasal strips around: even my children can use them with good results and the youngest is only 11. And I have a wire device that goes inside my nose which really helps. I also use a plastic mouthguard to prevent mouth breathing at night.

You will need to spend more for the wire device and mouthguard but they are worthwhile.

Get googling. There are things out there which really help.

chuffinell · 02/10/2009 10:06

this issue almost broke me and DH so you all have my sympathies. it took 2 years of sleeping on the settee before my DH went to the docs - she eventually referred him to a sleep clinic and they confirmed he has serious 'sleep disturbance' and apnoea

he was fitted with the CPAP (dont get one off ebay, you need to get it fitted properly) he hates wearing it but now we have got used to the whirring swishing noise from the machine, i dont even notice him next to me, its transformed our lives really

push your partner to go to her GP - its a life limiting illness - can put a huge strain on yor heart (not to mention your relationship

freename · 02/10/2009 12:02

morloth

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