Need to stop DH snoring-what works?

[marialuisa]

DH's snoring has become gradually worse and we have not spent an entire night in the same bed for months. i've seen lots of treatments around but can anyone recommend them?

He already sleeps on raised pillows, doesn't drink for at least an hour before going to bed etc. He's getting quite hurt that I skip off to the spare room but there's no way i can sleep in the same room with things the way they are. TBH even being in the spare room isn't that much of an improvement...

dh has one of these which seems to work most of the time

I find a pillow over the face (his) works well.

Those plaster things you put across your nose can help.
Otherwise kicking him repeatedly works quite well

Dh and i both snore horribly, i sympathise. if he is snoring worse and worse it may be a health problem, esp if he is gaining weight or feeling sleepy during the day. i'd suggest he should go to his gp just to check nothing is seriously wrong. Really tough for you both but I'd carry on sleeping in a place where you can get some sleep.

Wake him up every time he snores...

Old-fashioned remedy from my mum - sew a golf ball into the back of his pyjama top, so he won't sleep on his back!

Ear plugs?

There is a herbal I think spray called snorenz which worked with a friend of mine who had a wife ready to leave him... Then he had surgery to reduce his soft pallate, if he is overweight you can diet the problem away, smoking and drinking increase the snoring likelihood
I feel for you, when I met my DH I had to ask him if he snored I could not have stood it.

DH has bruises from the last time I tried sleeping in he same bed and waking him up. He's a grumpy sod about his beauty sleep and TBH both of us being tired isn't worth it. He has on occasion woken himself up with his spectacular prowess at snoring.

I will try the nasal strips and if no luck progress to the snoreban thing. Thanks!

Whether DH is overweight or not is debatable. He is much bigger than when we first met (gone from 30" to 34" trousers) but he is tall(over 6' and broad. Frankly, looking back at photos and remembering the way he behaved perhaps a bit unhealthily obsessed with being slim IYSWIM.

He is exercising/trying to cut down but doesn't seem to be having much effect (suspect he's probably about right for his height and build) and i'm reluctant to mention his size as he'll also start moaning at me (5'7", size 8, but hour glass shaped with flabby arse and thighs...)

When I was with ex, he use to always snore which really p**sed me off. So I would just roll him onto his side when he started to snore. Either that or hit him so he'd wake up, so by the time he's gotten back to sleep, I already will be. Or if it was really bad, I'd send him to sleep on the sofa

Poor you, been there too, ten years of it.

Would he agree to try not drinking alcohol at all for a bit? That's been part of my dh's diet (four months now & two and half stone gone, proud of him) & the snoring has GONE.

My dh has this problem. He had surgery on his nose as a boy and now needs another op to remove a build up of scar tissue. Unfortunately, the op keeps being postponed either by the hospital or by dh's work commitments. Meanwhile, I have perfected kicking him, sighing loudly, rolling over noisily, etc to wake him up in the hope that I go back to sleep quicker than he does! This is all I can suggest.

We have tried various oils/things to squirt into throat, snorban, nose strips, a ban on him lying on his back - nothing works.

He has been to the GP and then hospital, and they have offered him a "machine" which he will pick up in a couple of weeks. We think it is a horrible oxygen mask things.

Romance is made of this stuff, isn't it?!

Is he suffering from catarrh at the mo? If so it might be worth taking an antihistamine before bed or using a nasal spray such as Beconase. My DH gave up smoking a year ago and his snoring is much improved but I snore too so sympathise with both of you!

yes, we often meet-up in the middle of the night and then go back to separate rooms....

Thing is, he's really hurt about me sleeping elsewhere, but equally offended when i say anything about it.

Good luck with the mask thing!

no. no catarrh.

The volume is amazing. I picked it up on DD's tape recorder downstairs in the sitting room when he was asleep upstairs at the other side of the house with the door shut!

find out if he snores on a perticaula side mine always seems to snore worse when hes on his left and faceing me so i use my lovely big toe and gives him a kick so he turns over

my DH snores really badly. He's a medic and says snoring is always caused by one of the following:

1. being overweight. DH has lost a lot and his snoring is a bit better and the sleep apneoa has disappeared.

2. Deviated septum in the nose - usually caused by a broken nose. Needs surgery.

3. Floppy soft palate. Very common apparently. Surgery available, but very painful and results variable.

Having breathing assissted by a CPAP device (a mask with forced air) is only really useful if you suffer from sleep apnoea (stopping breathing). I don't think it's supposed to be a long-term solution.

DH refuses to have soft palate surgery but is going to get his nose scanned as he broke it as a child.

I've got him 'trained' now to only sleep right up on his side. Even if he flops back a bit, he'll snore. It's also impt to make sure your DH doesn't let his chin drop - keep it up to try and keep his airway open. I've spent the last 5 years sorting this out - DH rarely flops on his back now but will get back on his side with a wee tap on the shoulder. It's taken a lot of hard work - including me thumping him hard and waking him before we got to this stage ! Nothing else has worked. Good luck!

My dh had a very similar problem however we knew that his father had sleep apnoea and dh had a special mouth guard made. This alters the presentation of his lower jaw increasing the space in his airways at the back of his throat. The difference was astounding even on the first night he wore it. It may be worth seeing if your GP can refer him to a sleep clinic for investigations.

A good kick up the jacksi helps

Beansprout, my FIL has one of those machines - it scared DD the first time she saw him in it!!! Not the most attractive of things, but it really works!

joshjunior - did you go through your GP for the mouthguard, or did you see a dentist. This may be the answer for us!!

My dh had the soft palate operation, which was extremely painful (and it still hurts when he sneezes, he says). It worked brilliantly for a while ... but sadly his snoring has now returned and is getting gradually back to pre-op standards
So I'd really like to know more about the mouthguard...

dh saw a dentist who has a particular interest in these sort of problems. He didn't go through his GP or go to a sleep clinic because basically with the family history he knew what the problem was. The chap he saw does clinics in Guildford Surrey but I have a feeling he works in other places quite a distance away as well. If you are intrested I'll get some more details when he gets home from work tonight.

I've spoken to dh and apparently the chap he saw was an orthodontist who did his mouth guard as a favour to his mum!(family friend). He suggests going through GP / sleep clinic. Sorry not to be of more help.