How can my boyfriend STOP snoring!

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Please send all recommendations our way! He's literally like a fog horn! It makes me feel like booting him in the head. We have a 4 month baby who's co sleeping and he wakes him up so now he's been banished to the sofa. He hates sleeping on the sofa and I do miss him sharing the bed. He's never tried any snoring remedies before as before having a baby I was a deep sleeper but that's all changed now. So he's open to trying anything!

All I ever hear from people who have tried certain products is that they don't work tho :( so if you've found something that's genuinely brill please let me know!

Many contributing factors to snoring. Does he drink/smoke? Is he overweight or exhausted? All can cause it. However some people just snore - it is to do with the conformation of the neck etc! Has he always done it or has it got worse?
The GP can maybe recommend things to try - I use an app called the sleep lab which records sound all night (oddly compulsive to hear yourself snoring!!) and gives you a score. It's fab and may be of interest and may prompt him to address it a little if he is reluctant!

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Will he try a Snorban? Google it. Works for DH. I can't tolerate wearing one, but then my snoring bothers him less than his (diagnosed as sleep apnoea) did me..

Mouth guard works for my DH. But he might want to get checked by a gp as snoring could be a sign of something else. For me it was sleep apnea.

He needs to go to the GP to get to the bottom of this.

Snoring like that will shorten his life.

It could be tonsils. Could be lifestyle, undiagnosed allergies, could be that he's a mouth breather at night.

But it has to be stopped.

He might have sleep apnea. Urge him to see his GP and do a sleep study. If he qualifies he can get a CPAP which will be life changing for both of you!

GP told my dh it was pointless looking for any answers and he could lose a bit of weight (he’s not obese or near that). He hasn’t, of course. He’s tried some nose clip that didn’t work and since then I just have to suck it up basically. I’m waiting for him to go away for work again so I can get a nights sleep. It’s awful and I resent him and I’m furious at night mainly.
If you can go private maybe check that? I think you can’t drive I’ve seen somewhere while waiting for tests.

It depends entirely on the cause of the snoring. He needs to see a doctor.

Depends on the cause. My DH was overweight and then went on a diet which worked as he now snores much less and more quietly.

Mine won't do anything. I strongly suspect sleep apnea too.

I can comprehend how people are driven to murder...

I'm pregnant and due in 5 months. I'm a heavy sleeper but still every other night get woke up by my husband snoring, and have to tell him to move position. I'm worried that when our baby comes the snoring will keep waking baby up.

There is know point in sending him to the GP as he I obese so will be told to lose weight. However he seems to have little self discipline to lose weight.

My dh is like this and I’ve resorted to using Loop Quiet ear plugs.

Could be ear wax build up. Could he get checked by a doctor ? If necessary get his ears syringed or gently suctioned to remove the wax.

My husband gets his ears syringed every couple of years to remove built up ear wax. He uses an earwax softening product that he buys from the chemist before his ear wax removal procedure.

About every four weeks, his snoring gets worse and I ask him to do his ears which calms the snoring. That's about all that works.

(His Dr. thought it was a problem with his prostate which I didn't understand because he doesn't breathe through his prostate ! However, tests came back negative and nothing more was done.)

So, dealing with ear wax build up or softening the build up seems to work for him. I de-camp into the spare room when his snoring is keeping me awake.

DH was an awful snorer, I used to get the rage. He still does snore a lot but mostly on his back,
What seems to have happened over the years is he has got more responsive to me. So it used to be I would wake him up and ask him to turn over several times a night. Then I just had to touch his shoulder and he’d turn over in his sleep. Now I just have to turn over myself and he turns over. Usually that stops him snoring. If it doesn’t, I move rooms myself but that is very rare now.
It has taken 20 years though!

He needs to do a sleep study. It's pretty simple. If he needs a CPAP then he's lessened his risk of a heart attack.

If it's nothing, then, seperate bedrooms is the only thing I can suggest.

DH was a bad snorer. It was awful and he tried loads of things, bless him. In the end, it was losing weight that helped. I couldn't believe the difference. Now I can tell when his weight's creeping up, apart from the obvious visual, when the snoring starts up!

He really needs to get checked medically. My husband drove me to the spare room with his snoring (and then to the next room cause I could still hear him), it was going on for years, finally he was getting exhausted constantly, forgetful and just not himself so he went to the gp who referred him to a respiratory clinic, his symptoms meant he didn't have to do a sleep study but was given a cpap machine to use which is monitored remotely, after just one night he felt the difference, the respiratory nurse adjusted the machine remotely and now after three weeks he's a different person.