my husband's snoring is driving me crazy

[kissmummy]

It is so loud that earplugs do nothing. in fact it is so loud that when i kicked him out to sleep on the sofa the neighbours upstairs complained! - if only they knew what it was like actually trying to share a bed with him!
is there anything serious that can be done? i think we're well beyond nasal strips etc that they sell in chemists.
this is beginning to affect our marriage. i am having broken nights every night and we don't have a spare room at the moment. I get really despairing in the middle of the night when i can't sleep at all and he is roaring away. i am a very poor, light sleeper at the best of times, whereas his head hits the pillow and within five minutes the roaring starts.
I have asked him to book an appointment with the GP.
tips/shared experiences anyone?

Oh dear, that's really hard. I can sympathise a little as I am a pretty bad sleeper and my DH sometimes snores and it drives me mad, the nasal strips do help. However my mum snores terribly and I have spent nights in a room with her and it is awful. Now whenever we have family gatherings we all refuse to sleep with her.

The worst is when you are awake and just dropping off and they start. Grrr! Have you tried the tennis ball trick? My DH snores worse when on his back.

Hopefully the GP can help. You need to get your DH to insist that it is a big problem in your marriage. Not being able to sleep is literally torture.

DH is a snorer. I find alcohol makes it worse. He is quite thin but I gather that excess weight makes it worse too. Any ENT problems you know of?

I try to go to bed before him, a good 20 mins or so before he is off to bed, as if I am already fast asleep it is not too bad, I find it very hard to go to sleep next to him though.

It is rotten though, I get up a lot in the night to the DCs and really resent any extra wakings because of him.

we have a combination of excess weight, excess wine and probably ENT problems! will see what the Dr says!
thanks for shared experiences...i totally agree, the worst is if you are just drifting off and then they stumble into bed and start up their roaring, and then you have no chance. i always go to bed a good half hour/hour before he comes to bed but if i'm not asleep when he gets there i've got little hope...

I sympathise, my dh is a snorer - he's got a lot better since he started to get fitter though. He is overweight and it is worse with booze, but honestly the snoring is bareable now he has muscles!

A good friend of mine went to doctors after his girlfriend complained night after night about his snoring. It turned out he had low thyroid levels - so it's worth checking out.

Does his bottom jaw fall backwards? Does he have an over-bite or small bottom jaw? If so a "mandibular advancement device" can help a lot. Look at "snore ban" or talk to dentist/GP

dh had a deviated septum operated on and joined the gym and lost weight to help with his snoring. Have a look at the british snoring website too

Dear Kissmummy I certainly sympathise with you as my husband has snored for years and it has led to real problems in our marriage as I was constantly tired. We tried strips and various other measures including a tennis ball but nothing really worked. About two months ago he went to see an ENT specialist after the GP referred him. He was told that his tongue was rather large!! and this is a common cause of snoring as it falls to the back of the mouth when asleep, blocking the airways slightly. He recommended the mandibular device Snorter suggested as the only way forward. We bought this about 6 weeks ago at a rather hefty £100 but I have to say it has transformed our lives. Although it was rather uncomfortable for my husband at first he has now got used to wearing this at night (like a gumshield) and his snoring has completely stopped! A miracle and I can't recommend it highly enough. We ordered it via the British Snoring Website and it was delivered in a couple of days. Good luck!

my EX used to snore as if he was sawing logs. I too am a light sleeper and i could never get to sleep. Spent 2 years trudging downsatirs on to sfa with extra quilt. This caused us real problems...it contributed to us splitting up as i was so resentful when i went to bed. Even 15 ears down the line and 7 years with him it has completely screwed up my sleep patterns and i cant seem to get them back.

I have also found i cannot sleep with anyone else who snores and i have yet to find a man who doesnt.

My ex had his throat lasered which he told me was very painful. It worked for a few weeks and then when he had a drink it came backHe is a big bloke but has lost alot of weight but it doesnt seem to have made a difference.

My boyfriend however is very thin and he snores on his back ,his side,his face,with pillow over face.He lies as if hes in a coffin and is virtually unconscious. On the other hand...i lie there all night listening to him snoring on the in and out breath. As a consequence he doesnt stay very often.Doesnt make for a good relationship though.

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i think surpose 2 have pillows so their neck is elavated.my husband snores so loud and deep i think he will swallow his self.its not amusing but he wakes himself up with the noise and says who was that talking.

its usualy me say 4 gods sake stop snoring.i think 2 pillows would be more approx on his head so i can sleep.lol.

if tried that,tried to suffocate him ,and the bugger still doesnt wake up. Im sure men sleep better than wpmen becuase we have so much on our minds with multi tasking

tbh severe snoring can be a symptom of some dangerous conditions

get him to a doctor asap

My husband snores horribly. I can’t sleep it makes me tired. He always says that i need to put on earplugs, but i hate that feeling when something is in my ears and i feel unsafe when doing so. I keep thinking that anyone can come and steal everything while I am deaf from earplugs and my husband sleeps like a rock. I want some solution that would stop him from snoring. He refuses go to doctors. Some recommendations?

Oh my god, i have been here. My husband AND my dog both snored. I can make my dog sleep in the other room, but somehow my husband refuses to sleep on the couch. What helped me stop that snoring was this bit.ly/2OsHPVK Maybe it will help you too. Good luck.

I did snore and I have overbite. I went to dentist and got a mouth guard system made that brings my lower jaw forwards. That has helped a lot. It took awhile to get used to it though.

Cristina

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