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2010
How Do You Manage Your Partner / Spouse Who Has A Habit Of Snoring Making Loud Noise?
Posted by: Alan in Stop Snoring Remedies, tags: Habit, Loud, Making, Manage, Noise, Partner, Snoring, Spouse, YourHave you found any effective solution ? What do you think is a reason for his/her snoring ? Physical , psychological or both ? or something else ? Are you able to sleep well on background of such snoring ?
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January 16th, 2010 at 2:21 am
The best thing for both of you is for him to try to correct his snoring. It’s preventing both of you from getting a good nights sleep.
If you want to stop his snoring, it is important to consider the cause and severity of the snoring. Identifying the cause can help you choose the right cure.
It makes sense to try some simple non-invasive treatments first to see if they’ll reduce or prevent his snoring.
Here are some of those non-invasive tips to stop the snoring:
• sleep on your side – there’s a higher change of snoring if you lie on your back, and sleeping on your stomach will kill your neck.
• keep a regular sleep schedule – and make sure you get enough sleep, many people snore only when they are overly tired
• elevate your head when sleeping – you can increase the angle of your bed by raising the head of the bed or use pillows to your upper body, don’t just raise your head that’ll put more pressure on your air way and have the opposite effect.
• avoid alcohol and tranquillizers – they basically cause the muscles of your jaw and throat to relax, increasing your changes of snoring.
• Treat your allergies – if your nose is stuffy it may force you to breathe through your mouth when sleeping. If your nose is stuffed I recommend using a netie pot, the are incredibly effective, natural and pretty cheap to.
• buy a mouth guard – mouth guards will keep your jaw muscles from relaxing too much, and prevent snoring. It may not be too attractive to your significant other but it’ll help you both get some sleep!
• Lose weight – when you’re heavier the extra weight puts pressure on your airway, causing snoring.
• if you smoke try to stop – smoking damages your respiratory system, which doesn’t help in the snoring department
Excessive snoring may also mean you have a more serious problem like sleep apnea.
If you wake up with a headache, are extremely tired during the day, don’t feel refreshed when you wake up, have trouble concentrating or a very low attention span, or wake up during the night choking and gasping for breath you should probably see a doctor.
Mild snoring that isn’t related to sleep apnea responds well to home remedies. Finding a cure for your snoring problem can result in an improved quality of life for you and your loved ones.
An effective and pretty simple solution is doing throat excercises, here’s a website with interesting information on the snoring excercises: http://www.thestopsnoringexerciseprogram…
January 16th, 2010 at 8:46 am
I can handle it if I get in the bed and get to sleep before him. If he falls asleep first I have trouble getting to sleep. If you can get him to sleep on his side that helps. My husband sometimes wears the breath right strips which also helps. If a person is overweight they usually snore worse than someone of normal weight. My husband also snores worse when he has been drinking. Sometimes a tv in the background helps or maybe one of those sound machines. I have also been known to run a vaporizer which hums and drowns out some of the snoring. Good luck!
January 16th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
While I can appreciate many of the answers here, I assume you really need some answers because snoring can wreck a relationship.
There are lots of ways to try and stop snoring, but I should try to find out what is causing it first. It is important that you consult a medical professional if your snoring continues to adversely affect your sleep as you may have sleep apnoea.
Usually though, snoring occurs when there is some kind of blockage in the breathing passage when you fall asleep. The airflow in your bronchial passage becomes irregular due to the constriction that occurs when your throat relaxes. Disrupted airflow then causes the soft palette in the breathing passages to flap causing the snoring sound.
So keeping the airways open is the key. Here are some suggestions to achieve that:
• Give him a thicker pillow or multiple pillows will help reduce hissnoring, a pillow that’s too soft encourages throat muscles to relax and narrows the air passageway.
• Don’t let him drink alcohol, take sleeping pills, or similar before going to sleep, they will cause his muscles to relax and limit his air passage way.
• Tell him to avoid dairy products, which can cause mucus build-up.
• If he is slightly overweight, losing some weight will reduce snoring by increasing the space in his air passage way.
• Try to get him to sleep on his side instead of his back
• Try following a regular sleep routine.
• Don’t let him eat a big meal right before bed, a full stomach will push up on the diaphragm and limit breathing passage ways.
• If he is a smoker, get him to stop smoking, if that is not feasible then avoid smoking right before he goes to bed. Smoking causes inflammation and swelling of the throat.
• get him to try exercising the muscles in his jaw, mouth and throat – strengthening these will reduce the airway collapsing when he is relaxed.
There are many other Stop Snoring Aids available such as nasal strips, sprays, mouth guards or even surgery, but I would sugest exhausting the list above, and doing the excercises before you go down that path.
Good Luck
January 16th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
My husband never snored when we were first married. Of course, that was a century and about 50 pounds ago! As with most men, he started putting on some weight due to regular meals after marriage. He then started snoring up a storm, mostly when sleeping on his back. I found if I pushed him over on his side, the snoring would stop. Initially this took actually waking him up and pushing him while saying “roll over!” He would get a real kick out of hearing me say this, but with patient training, I can now get him to roll over on command and just a slight touch on his arm. Now, if I can just get him to sit and stay on command, I’ll have a perfectly trained husband — ha!
P.S. He has lost about 25 pounds and the snoring is not so much a problem.
January 17th, 2010 at 12:42 am
Typically, the reason why people snore is because they sleep on their back. It doesn’t matter how many times during the night they or their spouse rolls them over on their side, they end up back on their back. An anti snoring pillow can help with this.
Click the link in my source if you want to try an anti snoring pillow as a solution..
January 17th, 2010 at 4:19 am
ugh it drives me crazy! the only thing that would work besides making him sleep in the other room, is if I were to wear earplugs, and I cant stand earlplugs, so we just dont get much peaceful sleep any more. I will poke him in the middle of the night and tell him to roll on his side. it seems as long as he sleeps on his side the snoring stays to a minumum, the problem is he doesnt like to stay on his side so I have to tell him multiple times a night. breathe right strips dont usually help. I think it is a physical problem.
January 17th, 2010 at 5:16 am
My husband used to snore and he took care of it by himself since I was not able to sleep as soon as he got in the bed.
First, he made a physical which was normal. He was investigated for apnea, with was okay too. Before getting to surgery, he managed to take care of extra pounds that he gained over the years. He took it very seriously, exercising each day and cutting down on between-meal extras. As soon as his BMI went below 25, he just stopped snoring. It worked for him and he did that for me
Good luck !
January 17th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Divorce!! just kidding :p
I used wax earplugs, my ex used to snore terribly. As far as I know his weight was defenitely a factor. I even tried to get him to a see a doctor for sleep apnea, but he simply refused to. You do get used to it but only to a certain level. Sometimes I would push him over because a different position would change his breathing/snoring.
January 17th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Go to his GP with him they will rule out or find out if its any breathing problems that may be causing him to snore.
You can get nasal strips to stop snoring, you could try those.
When on his back snoring, roll him on his side.
Peg his nose…
Chuck him in the spare room lol??
I hate trying to get to sleep when someone is snoring, it just doesn’t happen.
January 17th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
I’m the wife and I sometimes snore really loud.
What we do is we sleep in separate rooms.
When either of us want to have sex we “visit” the other person and then after awhile go back to our own room.
We’ve done it for so long we don’t even think about it now.
January 17th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
you can tri this it helps me
January 17th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
my wife has sleep apnea and had snored VERY loudly for years until she was diagnosed. She got a CPAC machine and now sleeps soundly, and so do I.
January 17th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Snoring generally happens when a person sleep straight.
Make him sleep side ways means his face towards any side
January 17th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Plug his nose.
Roll him so he faces away from me.
All else fails, nudge him to wake him up some.
January 18th, 2010 at 1:45 am
Consult your family Doctor for medical remedy! This is only the good way before you!
January 18th, 2010 at 3:35 am
I get an elbow to the side and told to roll over if I start snoring.
January 18th, 2010 at 4:08 am
When my bride snores, I thank God for every breath she takes. After 25 years of marriage, she’s still putting up whith all of MY crap, so it’s the LEAST I can do !!!
January 18th, 2010 at 7:04 am
just be calm down you against him when he is doing that. and you just ignore him and don’t listen him. need more help then talk with me
January 18th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
I wear little foam ear plugs. I like the purple ones they sell at Wal-Mart (in the pharmaceutical section).
January 18th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
its not a habit but a condition!
January 19th, 2010 at 12:25 am
youll get use to it
January 19th, 2010 at 6:21 am
We’ll, it was me that had the loud snoring issue for a couple years and about 6 months ago I went in for a sleep test and was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea. I can’t say that I wear it religiously (every night), but I have a CPAP machine and when I use it properly, I don’t snore, thus, my wife and I both get a good nights sleep. I have a tendancy to fall a sleep on the couch (watching television) at night and those are the evenings that I don’t wear my CPAP. I do feel it the next day, as I don’t feel rested.
On the other hand, my wife snores very loud, but its usually the first hour or so, after she goes to bed. She is the first to go to sleep at night (usually around 10pm) and I like to stay up, watch the news and a couple programs, so by the time I crawl into bed its usually midnight or later.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:22 am
choke and suffocate him when he starts snoring so he’ll cough