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DP snoring is ruining my life

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bootytoots · 27/06/2016 14:24

I love him so much but I don't get any sleep anymore. I'm constantly missing taking my DS to nursery in the morning because I sleep in and DS doesn't wake up until I wake him up or, even worse, he will wake up and go into the front room to watch TV and I will have no idea of what he is doing.
It's so loud and it happens even if he changes sleeping position. He makes a weird clicking noise and I can hear his lips flapping as he snores. It can and usually does keep me up until about 4/5am and thats normally an hour before he wakes up and makes the most horrific clattering whilst getting ready for work. He talks loudly and aims it at me and DS as though we are lazy for not being awake at the same time as him in the morning. He denies that being the reason but it really feels like he expects everyone to be the same as him even though I'm sure DS is only sleeping in most of the time because his snoring keeps DS awake too.
I've asked him to go to the doctor and the doctor sent him away with some pills for weight loss... didn't work and DP can't get time off work to go to the doctors at the moment.
If I don't get help soon, I will snap. I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm genuinely considering LTB just because he snores :( please can anyone help?

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bootytoots · 27/06/2016 18:08

unadulterated He actually drives all day for work so no, you aren't being over the top with your warnings. He could end up hurting himself or worse and even worse than that could take someone else out (or even multiple people) in the process.

We really really need to get this sorted. If it isn't SA then fair enough but if it is and he's ignoring it then I would actually start to hate him. I know he brushed over the issues he does have when he sees a doctor. He acts like never being ill is an accomplishment. It gets on my tits that he does that. It makes me feel like he's basically pretending he has some crappy higher social status for never having a day off work when in actual fact I should imagine he's frightened that a doctor is going to stick something cold up his butt.

Am I allowed to organise his doctors appointments myself? Would that be abusive or bad form? He leaves most things like organising social stuff with his friends to me most of the time anyway and I hate socialising but if I organised the doctors thing I could make sure they know exactly how bad it is when I ring up.

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AYD2MITalkTalk · 27/06/2016 18:17

BTW OurBlanche, I've done a lot of CBT, and haven't yet found anything in there that would help me not snap awake when there's a sudden loud noise next to my ear, nor magic up an extra bedroom in my house. Earplugs are no good, as my ears are peculiar and I can't even wear earbuds or in-ear headphones without quite a lot of pain

tigerdriverII · 27/06/2016 18:18

I think there are more health issues to sort out here than the noise, as others have said. But loud snoring is unbearable and so debilitating to deal with. DH is a very loud and persistent snorer and things only improved for me when I started using earplugs. The best I've tried are Pluggerz, they cut out a huge amount of noise but you can still hear higher frequency sounds.

bootytoots · 27/06/2016 18:28

I've had a lot of CBT for my GAD and it hasn't seemed to have helped. I wish it did though. I used to listen to sleep hypnosis videos. They worked really well when I wasn't living with DP but now I am they just don't work. I think I'm more sensitive to things at night than most. It's like my brain is looking for reasons not to sleep and that doesn't help but I could at least start trying properly if he wasn't snoring.
I also feel that if I did get a spare room (not that we could afford it) then I'd be ignoring the bigger issue which is his health/weight. I want to be sure he's not unwell before I separate our sleeping arrangements.

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