Snoring - The couple killer!

Fen1

My OH 's snoring got worse and worse over a period of months.

He then went to the doctor about a nasty ear infection. The antibiotics cleared up the infection and magically cured his snoring. He still snores occasionally, but nothing like the pre-antibiotic days. Funny thing was, he was perfectly well during the bad snoring period. No sore throats, runny nose etc., but there must have been some sort of infection somewhere that aggravated his nose or throat during his sleep.

catkins

My OH used to snore really badly and I am a very light sleeping so used to have terrible nights even with ear plugs. I got him to go to the doctor and it turned out he had sleep apnea which can be quite serious.


He then had to use a cpap machine which stopped the snoring but itself made a noise which kept me awake! Last year he lost over 3 stone and now he doesn't use the cpap and rarely snores. The only time seems to be if he has a drink but luckily that is hardly ever as he is not a drinker

dinky_dragon

My partner used to snore horribly (and still might!) tried nasal strips, mouth guards, cpap machine, various "cures" off the internet and nothing helped. Eventually he was referred to ENT and had an operation on his nose...didn't help.

We now sleep in seperate rooms, and we LOVE it. Doesn't mean we love each other any less, our relationship hasn't suffered (it did when neither of us were sleeping, I was awake listening to him snoring and he was awake with an elbow in his side.) I couldn't do earplugs (tried many) as they gave me a banging headache and I was worried I wouldn't hear my daughter if she woke in the night.

Anyway, I know people on here are saying that they'd never sleep in a different room to their partner but honestly, it's the best thing we ever did.

Broadwood

dinky_dragon wrote: »

We now sleep in seperate rooms, and we LOVE it. Doesn't mean we love each other any less, our relationship hasn't suffered (it did when neither of us were sleeping, I was awake listening to him snoring and he was awake with an elbow in his side.)

Anyway, I know people on here are saying that they'd never sleep in a different room to their partner but honestly, it's the best thing we ever did.

Totally agree. Lack of sleep was a massive problem for me.

P.S. I drive trucks for a living, so it was a safety issue too.

consumers_revenge

Perdi wrote: »

Husband used to snore, to the point it sounded like sleep apnea to me. He went to the GP & was referred to ENT. It was diagnosed as perennial rhinitis & he now takes beconase nose spray twice a day. QUOTE]


Presume this isn't over the counter meds?

ALIBOBSY

I have rhinitis, asthma, excema, hayfever and a few allergies so I did snore on and off, luckily OH is a bit of a snorer as well so couldn't say too much lol. But we both are ether heavy sleepers or not that loud as it doesn't seem to effect us sleeping.

After a bad asthma attack couple of years ago (and a trip in the back of an ambulance to hospital) I was put on a drug to help reduce allergies and help my asthma. Weirdly it has pretty much removed my snoring as well except when really full of a cold.

I take it once a day its called Montuklast, but would only be for people with allergies etc suspect, but it does show that its worth trying at the doctors as there are a few options that can be given.

Good Luck

Ali x

catkins

dinky_dragon wrote: »

My partner used to snore horribly (and still might!) tried nasal strips, mouth guards, cpap machine, various "cures" off the internet and nothing helped. Eventually he was referred to ENT and had an operation on his nose...didn't help.

We now sleep in seperate rooms, and we LOVE it. Doesn't mean we love each other any less, our relationship hasn't suffered (it did when neither of us were sleeping, I was awake listening to him snoring and he was awake with an elbow in his side.) I couldn't do earplugs (tried many) as they gave me a banging headache and I was worried I wouldn't hear my daughter if she woke in the night.

Anyway, I know people on here are saying that they'd never sleep in a different room to their partner but honestly, it's the best thing we ever did.

Different rooms would not have made any difference to me. OH snored so loudly you could hear him in every room in the house.


Years ago we went on holiday with my family to a really large house with something like 8 bedrooms set over 3 floors. Everyone complained that they could hear my OH snoring

Joyfully_2

Seperate rooms here as well! We love each other dearly but sleep deprivation is a form of torture. Hubby also twitches in his sleep and is like a furnace.....

jaydeeuk1

Apparently I snore (I don't believe her) but since we had the little one who sleeps on our bed, I often end up in bottom bunk of daughters bed at about 2.00am. They can't sleep from me snoring, I don't sleep from little one and wife wriggling around. Makes me a bit less grumpy too.

baby-mechanic

Go to your GP as you could probably benefit from a sleep assessment ...

This will hopefully give an indicator of where the problem lies ...
I was initially diagnosed with having my overbite causing my lower jaw to sit further back than the norm, and the double mouthguard device didn't help ...

But then, via my cough-variant asthma, had another sleep study, from which I was given a CPAP machine, and it's relatively quiet ...
A recent sleep study however, has shown that I need a smidge more help ... so awaiting an assessment for SIMV !!!