Snoring.

[Cowley]

Oh come on, some of you must do it?

The last couple of weeks I've been driving my other half mad with loud nighttime walrusalike noises. I'm fairly slim and I eat reasonably healthily, I do like the occasional glass of beer or wine, but this seems to be getting worse as I get older.
The other night she recorded me on her phone and I was shocked, it sounded like some kind of BBC sound effect that would be used in a broad sitcom like Mrs Browns Boys.
She keeps playing it to me.
The night before last I knew she was struggling to sleep and I kept getting nudged, sometimes quite severely. In fact I don't think the word 'nudge' quite covers it.
In the end I was told to listen to a podcast about snoring and I've been into the local hippy shop to buy various different oils including peppermint and eucalyptus.
These helped last night and I was much quieter but unfortunately one of the cats then decided to spend much of the night being really irritating so I suppose he quite liked the snoring as it made him feel secure...

Does anyone else have any tips to stop this or should we look at separate rooms at opposite ends of the house?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Sleep on your side, not your back.

 

[Cowley]

Sleep on your side, not your back.

I try that and apparently then I just make a kind of clicking noise like another bad BBC sound effect of a horse walking along tarmac.

 

[507021]

Sleep on your side, not your back.

I find this worked for me, I used to sleep on my back and apparently I would snore. In the last couple of years or so I have started to sleep on my side, and after asking my partner recently just out of interest, she said I don't snore.

 

[Cowley]

I find this worked for me, I used to sleep on my back and apparently I would snore. In the last couple of years or so I have started to sleep on my side, and after asking my partner recently just out of interest, she said I don't snore.

That's good. My other half said that the clicking noise that I was making was like Chinese water torture... I've heard of people that have sewn a tennis ball into the back of a t shirt to stop them lying on their back, it might be worth a go.
I've also stopped eating bread and cheese last thing at night as that doesn't help according to the man (god I love cheese though, I feel like some now actually. No, better not).

 

[Peter Mugridge]

The cheese thing is an individual thing, not a general thing. I quite often find I sleep more soundly after having cream crackers with mild Cheddar on them as a supper...

So for that factor at least, I would suggest you test whether or not it actually makes any difference to you, and act ( or eat! ) accordingly.

 

[507021]

That's good. My other half said that the clicking noise that I was making was like Chinese water torture... I've heard of people that have sewn a tennis ball into the back of a t shirt to stop them lying on their back, it might be worth a go.
I've also stopped eating bread and cheese last thing at night as that doesn't help according to the man (god I love cheese though, I feel like some now actually. No, better not).

I've never heard that one before mate, I guess it's worth trying as you say.

One thing someone suggested to me a while ago was to stay well hydrated throughout the day, although I haven't had to try it because the change of sleeping position solved it for me.

 

[theblackwatch]

I too have started snoring in recent years, and I'm not overweight. I sleep on my side normally and that doesn't stop me snoring. I wish I didn't do it, as I know how annoying it can be for anyone else in the room, having suffered from other people's farmyard impressions in the past!

 

[Dvorak]

On another forum (for runners), someone recently mentioned curing their snoring by wearing a pinkie ring. I know nothing more than that.

(I've met them and they seem reasonably normal, not just some crazy person.)

 

[Zamracene749]

Get to your doctors and get checked for sleep apnoea. It normally gets us fat blokes, but it can just as easily get you skinny ones too- thinner neck = thinner airways! Can be dangerous if untreated...

 

[Condor7]

I've tried just about everything and nothing seems to make any difference.
Snoring is caused usually by a loose flap of skin at the back of your throat, it can be removed with laser treatment, but for a few days after the operation it is very painful and although often successful the snoring can still come back.

In the end we opted for separate rooms. We still go to bed together and usually watch tv or listen to the radio but when we start to drop off, I slip out into the other room.

 

[gordonthemoron]

I snore because I have a deformed sinus, perhaps your doc could check for that too. Not sure what can be done about it.

I used to have a girlfriend who snored like a motorcycle

 

[EssexGonzo]

Get to your doctors and get checked for sleep apnoea. It normally gets us fat blokes, but it can just as easily get you skinny ones too- thinner neck = thinner airways! Can be dangerous if untreated...

Exactly that. I had the Septoplasty operation (nasal septum straightened) a few years back and its made a massive difference to breathing and snoring.

It may be nothing but worth looking at.

 

[Cowley]

Well there's been some interesting replies. Apparently I snored for an hour last night but that was it. I think not having dairy last night may have helped more than I realised, I love cheese but my son is pretty sensitive to it and although I always thought that it didn't effect me I'm starting to think that I may have been wrong.
The eucalyptus has also helped and I'm going to stay off the alcohol for a while to see if that makes a difference too.
If it still persists after this then I'll perhaps look at having a chat to a doctor, but there's a few things to try first.
Thanks for the replies folks.

 

[Henbury Loop]

I am fairly sure that I have sleep apnoea, I have not yet plucked up the courage to have it checked out however.

I do not exactly relish the idea of having to use an oxygen mask....

 

[Busaholic]

Don't believe the myth that women don't snore. I've slept with two that do (not at the same time).

 

[Cowley]

Don't believe the myth that women don't snore. I've slept with two that do (not at the same time).

I recorded my other half snoring the other week just to prove that it wasn't just me. She then played a recording of me the next day and I decided to not do it again.

 

[Busaholic]

I recorded my other half snoring the other week just to prove that it wasn't just me. She then played a recording of me the next day and I decided to not do it again.

You can't beat 'em, so might as well join 'em.

 

[Cowley]

You can't beat 'em, so might as well join 'em.

I haven't tried that line on her yet. Maybe tomorrow...

 

[DerekC]

As an ex-commuter I recall hearing a regular who snored loudly enough to be heard over a Portsmouth-bound 4-VEP or whatever (never was any good at old third rail EMUs, they all look the same to me) at full chat. His mates used to wake him up in time to get off at the right station. Nobody seemed to mind.

 

[EssexGonzo]

I am fairly sure that I have sleep apnoea, I have not yet plucked up the courage to have it checked out however.



I do not exactly relish the idea of having to use an oxygen mask....

That's not the only remedy. If you are diagnosed with SA, there are several option ranging from minor surgery through to an elastic band!

But don't leave it undiagnosed! It can put strain on the heart among other things.....

 

[shredder1]

Oh come on, some of you must do it?

The last couple of weeks I've been driving my other half mad with loud nighttime walrusalike noises. I'm fairly slim and I eat reasonably healthily, I do like the occasional glass of beer or wine, but this seems to be getting worse as I get older.
The other night she recorded me on her phone and I was shocked, it sounded like some kind of BBC sound effect that would be used in a broad sitcom like Mrs Browns Boys.
She keeps playing it to me.
The night before last I knew she was struggling to sleep and I kept getting nudged, sometimes quite severely. In fact I don't think the word 'nudge' quite covers it.
In the end I was told to listen to a podcast about snoring and I've been into the local hippy shop to buy various different oils including peppermint and eucalyptus.
These helped last night and I was much quieter but unfortunately one of the cats then decided to spend much of the night being really irritating so I suppose he quite liked the snoring as it made him feel secure...

Does anyone else have any tips to stop this or should we look at separate rooms at opposite ends of the house?

I snore like mad, regardless of how I sleep, in fact someone woke me up in an hostel once for snoring, big mistake, it didnt go well, lol

 

[shredder1]

That's not the only remedy. If you are diagnosed with SA, there are several option ranging from minor surgery through to an elastic band!

But don't leave it undiagnosed! It can put strain on the heart among other things.....

I wonder if I have that?

 

[shredder1]

Don't believe the myth that women don't snore. I've slept with two that do (not at the same time).

They definitely snore, I`ve slept with a few, sometimes two at a time

 

[Blindtraveler]

My X Wife was a very loud snorer, thats not the reason the word X comes into it though.
I would say from the experiences with that the food before bed has more noticeable effect than the booz.

 

[BanburyBlue]

Join a choir - strengthen those throat muscles.

 

[Cowley]

Join a choir - strengthen those throat muscles.

It's just not my kind of music though.
I wonder if the singer from Napalm Death snores..?

 

[BanburyBlue]

There are a great variety of choirs out there that cover all sorts of music.

 

[Busaholic]

As an ex-commuter I recall hearing a regular who snored loudly enough to be heard over a Portsmouth-bound 4-VEP or whatever (never was any good at old third rail EMUs, they all look the same to me) at full chat. His mates used to wake him up in time to get off at the right station. Nobody seemed to mind.

Slightly off-topic, but when I was a long distance train commuter there was a certain young lady who always fell asleep (no smartphones to fiddle with in those days) and ended up with her head on the shoulder of the passenger next to her : I admit to being that passenger on two or three occasions and not objecting to it.

 

[Cowley]

There are a great variety of choirs out there that cover all sorts of music.

You've taken this in a direction I wasn't expecting BanburyBlue.