We've managed to stop DH from snoring so I thought I'd share

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Not sure where to post this but had to share.
My DH snores, badly enough that we often spend nights in separate rooms. When we went to stay with MIL he didn't snore at all, all week. I was talking to a friend about it and she said "do you have feather pillows?" Answer "yes". "Does MIL?" "No"
When we got home I changed his pillow to a firmer, non feather one and he hasn't snored since!
I'm not saying it'll work for everyone but it has to be worth a try right?

That's great news. Unfortunately DH already uses non-feather pillows (I have feather ones) so we can't try that one. He refuses to use more than one, very flat one though, maybe I should get him to try a more solid one .

That's a shame! Hopefully it'll help some people..... the ones he's now using are quite raised too - it must help open the airways or something....

I could hardly contain my excitement a seeing your thread title - I thought 'at last here is the answer'.

Sadly, for me, none of us have feather pillows, and my DH snores his head off with one, two, or no pillows.

Oh! What a shame - I thought it might help someone at least? Sorry to disappoint!

I have a friend with a feather allergy - not enough to notice normally, but if he sleeps on a feather pillow it bungs him up enough to snore.

My dh used to snore terribly, all the time. Turned out he had severe sleep apnoea, and in the 6 years after diagnosis and starting to use CPAP at night, he's only snored if his mask has come adrift. Bliss.

I'd recommend a snore guard. dh can be heard snoring through walls and floors without but with I can manage to sleep next to.him without the desperate urge to beat his brains out with a hammer

What's a snore guard?

That probably explains why DH's snoring has stopped - we changed to memory foam (from squoshy) pillows :)

DH has recently lost a stone and, low and behold, his snoring has stopped.

Yup TheCrackFox DH has lost a bit of weight too but the pillows have definitely stopped it completely.
Milliways glad someone else has had the same luck :)

a snore guard is a sort of gum shield which holds your lower jaw slightly forward keeping your airway open. dh is a floppy soft palate snorer and it helps quite a lot. you can buy them from boots but they are quite expensive.