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ready to lose it on my DH
I'm exhausted ALL THE TIME right now. Our daughter has been getting up each night anywhere from 1 to SIX fucccking times. Okay, I can cope because she's four.
I wear ear plugs to sleep and I am STILL woken up MANY times throughout the night having to yell at my husband to roll over because of his snoring. He is not overweight at all, but I do think he needs to get checked out because of some potential sinus issues. He's still balking at me.
I JUST NEED SLEEP and then I won't be a raging biitch. Is that too much to ask?
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Re: ready to lose it on my DH
Has he ever had a broken nose? Deviated septum? Allergies?
Maybe he needs a sleep study?
I have DH use those nose strips and they do help a little
GL I really hope you get some great sleep soon!
The Breathe Right strips have helped "some" but not enough. He does need a sleep study and I think to have his tonsils and adenoids looked at. But he doesn't waaaaaant to. The big baby.
If my DH called me lazy when pregnant or after chasing around their child all day, I would lose my shitt, sleep or no sleep. OMG.
I'm close. If he won't make an appointment in the next few days, I think he knows that's where he will be.
My husband wakes me up too. Luckily my son has been sleeping pretty well lately, which I'm grateful for that extra uninterrupted sleep. My husband is really great (I think he doesn't want to see the sick AND tired side of me) he volunteers to sleep on the couch most of the time now that I'm pregnant and sick and just exhausted even with sleep.
We're pretty sure he needs a sleep study, but he wants to retire from the military first....which I totally understand.
This! My DH's had gotten so bad that I gave up and started sleeping in the guest room. He was not loving the idea of wearing a CPAP mask to sleep and a couple of his coworkers had them and were halfass about using them, so he just kept making excuses and kept putting band-aids on the problem (e.g., using Breathe Right strips).
I finally lost it one morning after a long, noisy, rough night and told him how tired I was then and how tired I would be once the baby came and how unfair it was for him to be so selfish about something that affects our family (there are a lot of potential major health risks tied to sleep apnea). He agreed to do a sleep study, and they found out he stopped breathing 40 times during the hour he was asleep before they made him put the mask on!
This scared him enough that he got a CPAP and after just a month has said that he feels more rested when he wakes up in the morning, he no longer wakes up with headaches, and he doesn't get sleepy at work in the afternoon.
It may take some more convincing, but it's worth it to lean on your husband to get checked out, whether it turns out to be sleep apnea or not. He's not a single guy with nobody to be accountable to or looking out for his best interest anymore.
Good luck!
ETA: Another thing that helped my DH get used to the idea of the CPAP was talking to people who were using it. It turned out that the technician that did his sleep study was a CPAP user and he was honest with my DH in telling him that he hated the idea at first, and that it took him a good year to get used to life with the CPAP, but that he's so glad he has it. So, if you know someone who uses one, it might be helpful for your DH to get their take on using it.