Slightly pulling the pillow can work if the person isn’t a horrible chronic snorer. Making a person move their head while sleeping will often make them adjust their whole body readjusting their airway and that can both help them sleep better and snore less but it only works on light to moderate snoring, people who are super loud when they sleep probably have something going on that isn’t just position of sleep.
Temporal bedroom divorce. I’m only in it during the day he’s only in it at night. Sometimes I try to snuggle up to him while he’s sleeping for a midnight nap and he gets up to move to the couch and I cry a little inside. Nice to have no sleeping disruptions but a lot less cuddles.
I use a CPAP, and I can tell when it didn’t help because I’m uncomfortable, and my wife is sleeping in the living room. Or she yells at me.
For me, I enjoy the sound of light snoring, so my wife or dogs snoring a little bit actually helps me fall asleep. If my wife starts snoring too hard, to the point that it sounds possibly painful or problematic, I gently adjust the position of her head, or get up and physically move her.
We have a guest bedroom. If I’m snoring too much or her insomnia is too bad she moves to the other one for the night. She usually starts by kicking me to stop the snoring and only moves if it doesn’t stop.
For the past year we’ve been in a studio temporarily and we both miss it so much.
Snore louder than them.
My own room. From reading the comments a lot of people just seem to suffer through sleepless nights or try to dictate their partner’s health/behaviour. Look, you can love each other without sleeping in the same bed, or even living in the same house.
Edit: you asked for input from those who DO share a bed, sorry. I suffered too for many years, and my health deteriorated. Now even next to a non-snoring partner I’ll get zero sleep. Which is why I advocate for considering separate rooms.
Since my nose surgery i am snoring quietly. But when ever it annoys my partner they say they just kick me a bit and i stop
I’m getting my cpap tomorrow. They wouldn’t even let me finish the sleep study without hooking me up to one. I do not look like a cpap user let me tell you. 5’8’', 180lbs. Anyone could have apnea. So glad my wife made me go. Excited to sleep without starving my brain of oxygen every night.
If the partner is snoring loudly they might have a form of sleep apnea. They should get a sleep study done just to check. My husband’s snoring was so loud I could sometimes hear it through earplugs. He had sleep apnea, now he uses a CPAP machine and no more snoring and better sleep for both of us.
Your life insurance rates go up if they find out.
My wife snitched on me to my doctor, I had a sleep study at a clinic, and now I use a CPAP machine when I sleep, which supposedly helps.
Edit: Oh yeah, and snoring/apnea is linked to grinding your teeth, which can lead to root canals, tooth extraction.
Not fun or cheap.
Your life insurance rates go up if they find out.
Is this some sort of American joke that I’m too European to understand?
Excuse my over used joke, but that cant be true?
Life insurance isn’t health insurance. It pays out when you die so your family isn’t fucked over by funeral costs and the sudden loss in income.
Its rather obvious that the other guy meant health insurance. I didn’t even notice the different word they used by (presumably) accident, I guess my brain auto corrected it lol. But thanks for pointing that out.
I’m fairly certain he meant life insurance. In the US under the ACA, charging people higher premiums or cancelling their coverage due to pre-existing conditions is illegal
Oh okay. The more I learn about the insurance system over there, the more confused I am.
But I’m confused anyway so its probably a me problem.
No it’s not. Life insurance premiums here go up when you have certain conditions (especially without getting them treated). Health insurance premiums here are pretty heavily regulated on such things, and they just offer a few discounts for a handful of things like getting an annual checkup, not smoking, and getting vaccinated.
As an Aussie I’m glad to have free healthcare.
Do you feel more rested now or notice any difference?
I’m not the person you asked, but I’ve been on my CPAP for a year now. Yes, it does what they say, but I hate it with a passion. She can sleep, but now I wake up 4 times a night feeling like the damn thing is suffocating me.
I haven’t noticed any difference from before, but my wife has stopped nudging me awake to get me to stop snoring.
Been on it for a couple of years. It’s a difference like night and day. You don’t really notice how fucked you are by the apnea until you are not.
I stay up until there’s a lull in the snoring and fall asleep in that window, thankfully it’s not constant or loud enough to wake me once I’m out.
I take melatonin but i sleep alone most of time🤣
I snore pretty loudly, have since I was a kid. doctors told me I have “overdeveloped adenoids” and pretty much always will. it doesn’t bother me, but for my partner’s sake, I’ve tried a few things.
nasal strips didn’t really do anything. the mouth guards are incredibly uncomfortable and I’ve heard they can loosen teeth, so I finally broke down and tried mouth tape. it works pretty well. it improves my sleep a little and my wife’s quite a bit. the name brand stuff is expensive, but it’s basically just KT tape.
I keep plenty of that on hand for sports injuries and now I just cut a piece into little strips and it does the job. although, according to my wife, I still manage to honkshoo mimimimi a bit out the sides of my mouth.
“honkshoo mimimimi”
I heard this in my head perfectly, nicely done
Re: Mouth guards
Many years ago, my dentist advised me to have him make a mouth guard to protect my teeth.
I didn’t do that, thinking it wasn’t needed.
About 10 years later, these last few years, I have had root canals, tooth extractions and expensive dental implants on my rear-most molars.
The oral surgeon showed me an X ray of my teeth in those areas: My molars were ground flat and were cracked because I grind my teeth so hard because of snoring/apnea, and probably stress.
Take some advice from someone who has experience: Get the fucking mouth guards.
And look into getting fitted for a CPAP machine:y dentist said it helped somewhat with the grinding, but it wasn’t a cure-all in the end for my teeth.
fortunately I don’t grind or clench at all, I tried one of the Z Quiet ones that are supposed to keep your jaw pushed forward to prevent snoring by keeping your airway open and those were nightmarish. I felt like a horse.
I will likely get a CPAP eventually, but for now I’m still relatively young and decently fit, I don’t have any issues with airflow, I’m just loud. the tape keeps my mouth mostly closed, but not completely, which has also been a game changer for avoiding sore throats when I feel a cold coming on.
If you snore loudly then you indeed have issues with airflow. Snoring is friction and blockage or the airway which is an issue.
I didn’t get a CPAP until I was 32 and boy do I wish I realized how bad it was years before. Your body can deal with sleep deprivation from snoring or sleep apnea until it can’t and you get sicker more often, injuries take longer to recover from, weight doesn’t come off as easily.
The earlier people get onto CPAP if they have sleep apnea, the sooner they will realize how much better proper sleep is compared to broken sleep.
It wasn’t my husband’s snoring that made me nag him for years (I would have just gotten earplugs like other comments suggest), it was the lack of breathing. Waking up to a snore, and then hearing… nothing… nothing… nothing… nothing… GASP!!! is quite distressing. If WandowsVista’s partner is giving him feedback on noise, I am sure he’d be getting feedback on any lack of breathing.
Also, CPAP isn’t a clear win for a lot of people with apnea. My husband really struggles - even years after starting it - to fall asleep with a hunk of plastic strapped to his face, and middle of the night large air leaks that make the thing stop being effective are a recurring issue as wear parts get changed out and the straps have to be tweaked and tweaked to get the system stable again. For him, the reduced headaches (and lack of nagging from me) make the CPAP worthwhile, but I have known quite a few people who got the sleep study, got the CPAP, tried to make it work, and gave up.
I think one of the biggest issues is mask fitting. I got a fitting done with a nurse with multiple mask in a room laying back in a recliner to find one that was most comfortable with the machine and was shown how to adjust to get leaks to a minimum.
Some people are just thrown a machine and you figure it out on your own. I don’t think that works for the majority of people, everyone is different so masks should be tried on with a machine at pressure so you have an idea of what is comfortable.
Also trying to use it while relaxing and watching tv or reading helps acclimate to the mask so when trying to sleep it is already normalized.
nah, you can be a loud snorer without having apnea. granted, it’s usually an early warning sign, but I don’t have any pauses or choking or anything when I sleep. I’m just big guy make loud noise
source: asked many a doctor
I’ll get a CPAP machine one day. when the prophecy has been fulfilled.
Did living in a way to reduce your stress ever enter into consideration?
Don’t you think if they could, they would?
No, people don’t generally problem solve in such a linear fashion.
Significant other needs to get treatment. CPAP, for instance. Lose weight, if applicable. Surgery if necessary. Address the root of the problem because it can be a significant health issue for them, while also impacting your health via mechanisms related to lack of restorative sleep.
If it’s just a once in a blue moon thing, and waking them up / having them change positions doesn’t resolve it, I will go sleep in another room, put in ear plugs or listen to some relaxing music with earbuds in to drown out the snoring.
What if they can’t find a root cause?
I lost a lot of weight and it stopped
How much did you lose? Congrats
Which stopped? The marriage?
What happened to the significant other snoring?
