cure for snoring husband

[suzywong]

Can anyone provide a cure for my DH who sounds like an elephant seal chewing a chainsaw.

Now that DS sleeps through the night and gorgeous baby can go in the cot and out of my bed DH seems to think he can claim his place in the marital bed once more.

As it would seem churlish to refuse and cutting his head off is illegal where I live I would welcome some advice.

Mine never snored when I first met him and then recently started to.......... We (well I) worked out that he was allergic to the feathers in the new pillows as he used to sneeze all the time when in bed. Changing him back to the old synthetic pillows has not exactly worked wonders, but it's a lot better.
Good luck with a cure!

Wax earplugs (for you). Do a Google for sleep apnoiea (sp) - Pamela Stephenson was on Parkinson saying Billy Connolly suffers from this & they had some sort of device to help his horrendous snoring.

Loud bellowing 'YOU'RE SNORING' helps very slightly, but please share any tips!

swift elbow in the ribs? keep the baby in bed with you...?

bettys - I have seen a gadget in one of the Xmas catalogues called a Snorestopper that is like a wristwatch and delivers an electric 'impulse' ( I hope it's a bloody great big voltage) and makes the walrus change positions on detection of snoring activity. Was that the kind of device they were talking about.
Anyway it solves the problem of 'what are you going to use for contraception?' that my Gynae put to me whenI came out of hospital with lovely baby.

Any more advice welcome

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A cattle prod from MIL's farm does the trick!

there is also a device that looks like a plastic gumshield. It works sometimes for dp but it makes him gag....snoring or gagging.nice choice seperate beds is the only way we can both get some sleep at the mo but i understand your dilemma suzywong as when we have another baba the spare room willl be taken.......we'll have to get a tent!

big big sympathies - Has dh always snored or is it recently started. I saw a program that said men with a collar size over 15 1/2 inches were more likely to snore and lsoing weight often helps.

I think it was the mask thing robinw mentioned that Billy Connolly uses. Kicking helps, and is cheaper.

I found " Oh for Gods sake willl you stop snoring " and a lot of herumphing helps too

Presiume this has been covered before here

My dh started snoring when we stayed in a friend's very dusty house and he has had snoring episodes ever since. You can buy some things like sticking plasters (can't remember the name at all) that go over the nose and help open the airways and losing weight definitely helped. If he is a bit snuffly during the day taking an occasional Sudafed helps.

codswallap that is so funny

I have bought a tiny de humidifier from lakeland that has menthol in it, may unblock snorey noses

the hOlland and bARRETT STUFF COSTS 13 QUID - DOES IT WORK?

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I snore

Oh me too but mine is a size 12 snore and dh's ..well isnt.

sock in gob peg on nose
works every time

does he wear pyjamas? (no need to answer that) If so, then sew a cotton reel or spikey hair-rollerto the collar - that will stop him sleeping on his back, which is generally the worst position for snoring.

Someone has already mentioned the mouthshield, here is the link snorban . I highly recommend it although it does take 3/4 weeks to get used to it.

Also heard raising head (preferably by tilting bed rather than using 4 pillows) supposed to really help. Unfortunatleey means you'll have to put up with it too.

I'm lucky - swift kick &/or punch usually works.

Agree with comments about sleep apnoea. My DH was diagnosed with this in Sept and has just had surgery on his nose to remove excess cartiledge that was preventing him from breathing properly.

There's only a 50% success rate, and he only had the operation last week, so we don't know if it's worked for him, but the doctors obviously thought it was worth a try, as it was affecting his ability to concentrate during the day (and he's on the road driving a lot, so it could have got dangerous).

Up to that point, we'd tried everything, from elbows and feet, to the snoring strips, and nothing had really worked. We'd just got used to it. I really hope for his sake (and, selfishly, for mine!) that this works.

nip his nose when he snores

Agree with PP. Can either be sleep apnea, which you can get a mask for for breathing overnight. Or nose issues. GP first port of call. For some people, loosing weight improves things too.