Would you deliberately wake a snoring neighbour?

[Deleted User]

Good hope it works, at least it's not medicine etc a cpap shouldn't cause any bother.

Tell your neighbour your thoughts on sleep apnea and you're booking to see a doc. May make him feel better knowing you are trying to do something about it.

onwards&upwards

coffeehound wrote: »

Thanks, and in an ideal world I would . . but if I waited for the NHS, it would be at least four months before I got any treatment

Not necessarily, I was referred to a specialist in July and saw the consultant last week.

When people start diagnosing themselves some of them just don’t make any difference but some of them end up in a bad way or even dead!

onwards&upwards

_shel wrote: »

Good hope it works, at least it's not medicine etc a cpap shouldn't cause any bother.

Just had a very quick google search and found articles listing things that can go wrong and some of them are quite serious.

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My other half goes through snoring phases. Its an incredibly frustrating thing for both of you to deal with. Don't take his behaviour personally as sleep deprivation can make you act in ways you wouldn't normally act. I've got up and slammed doors at 4am in a fit of rage after being woken up for the 6th night running. The next morning I feel bad as its not something he's doing on purpose and he's just as frustrated about it as I am.

I can't offer you any medical advice and it seems you've tried all of the off the shelf anti-snoring products but I do hope you get it sorted for you and your neighbours sake.

gingercordial

coffeehound wrote: »

Well I did go to my GP about major chest pains some time ago, and if things go as planned, it will be about four months when I get to be seen by a cardiologist. So that seemed like a reasonable yardstick

Mention your snoring to the cardiologist. Sleep apnea and cardiac failure are correlated:

https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/sleep-apnea-and-heart-disease-0

https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/how-sleep-apnea-affects-the-heart

If you have it, you are constantly stopping breathing during the night because your throat is blocked. Lack of blood oxygen puts stress on the heart. You are also not having decent sleep (even if you think you are) and that tiredness will affect you the next day - if your username indicates you absolutely can't function without coffee as you are always too tired that is another worrying sign.

Go to your GP!

Skippy13

z1a wrote: »

Everybody has a choice!

Where do you suggest I get the extra few hundred thousand so I can buy a house?

ripplyuk

You don’t need to have sleep apnea to use a CPAP machine. The reason people think that is because the NHS won’t give you one unless you have (severe) sleep apnea but they are bought and used by many people who just snore, without any medical cause. The NHS machines are very basic with none of the ‘comfort’ features, which is another reason many people end up buying their own.

I sympathise with anyone who has to put up with snoring as it almost destroyed my relationship with my partner. His was so bad the bed would shake so even if I got asleep with earplugs, it would still wake me. We paid to see a private consultant who did a sleep study. This showed he stopped breathing approx 8 times/night which isn’t anywhere near enough for the NHS to give out a CPAP (he suggested 10 times that!) but the consultant was lovely and somehow managed to get one for my partner anyway. I can’t even imagine having to put up with a neighbour snoring. It would drive me crazy and I would certainly be banging the walls.

z1a

Skippy13 wrote: »

Where do you suggest I get the extra few hundred thousand so I can buy a house?

I would live in a caravan before a flat.

langtonhighway

My partner has just been fitted with a CPAP and although it helps loads with his apnea and snoring (ie totally stopped them) he isn't feeling less tired as it's uncomfortable.

I'm with you on just getting one privately. That's what I wanted my partner to do, but no, he waited six months and two visits to Papworth for them to say what I as his partner already knew!! Still at least it was free!

Good luck

sheep1003

Why don’t you try recording your snoring to see how bad it actually is and it’s not just your neighbour being over sensitive?

I only say that because I have lived in my first floor flat for over 10 years and below is rented out. When I moved in there was a couple who I was on good terms with and they never said anything about noise and when they bought a house and moved out they thanked me for being a considerate upstairs neighbour.

Some new people moved in downstairs and there has been nothing but trouble, they have loud rows at night, do nothing to maintain their bit of garden or keep the inside of the communal areas clean. They regularly are banging on my door saying that I’m being too loud. I don’t ever play loud music, I go to bed at 10pm and I believe my tv volume is reasonable.

As I have had no complaints before they moved in I have concluded they are not very nice and nothing I do will be good enough for them and it’s just them that are not suited to living in a flat. Sadly some people are just unreasonable. So maybe it’s them and your snoring isn’t as bad as they make out!