If your H snores...

BPer · February 2014

Has anyone had any luck getting relief? Any gadgets, sprays, weird remedies?

H's snoring has been SO bad. I know that his weight gain is contributing to it (his snoring always gets really bad when he gains weight, and is almost nonexistent when he loses it) but I can't tell him that. He's tried so many OTC remedies, but nothing seems to work. It's keeping me up and I am fucking exhausted.

Help?

MrsKipper · February 2014

DH tried Breathe Right strips but he would always take them off in the middle of the night. I just end up telling him to turn over all night. I'd love to find a fix so I could sleep better!

BPer · February 2014

H uses nasal spray before bed, a throat spray called "snore extinguisher" or something like that, AND breathe right strips. Ugh.

Bookelly · February 2014

I could've written this exact post. Nothing OTC stops his snoring, so I've resorted to earplugs and a fan on the table next to my head. Both help immensely. He also gives me a half hour *head start* on going to sleep, since he can lapse into dreamland upon his head hitting the pillow, and I, unfortunately, take longer. I feel ya!

MrsKipper · February 2014

And none of that works? Oy.

plus12012 · February 2014

I just get up and sleep in the loft or the guest room when it gets too loud.

PenelopePond · February 2014

No help here. We even got him a super expensive pillow. It doesn't help at all. Sadly I'm to the point that I'm use to it (for the most part). When he would travel for work, I couldn't sleep because it was too quiet.

Kissty · February 2014

Seperate rooms!!! After spending 3+ years in the guest room or on the couch this is the BEST remedy. I love that I can get sleep. He loves that he gets sleep. We have had seperate rooms going on about 8 years now.

Holly_1007 · February 2014

We have a box fan in our room that drowns out some of it. When he quit drinking he got much better about snoring.

bosha711 · February 2014

MH has sleep apnea. He has a CPAP machine, but ends up rarely using it bc the mask is so uncomfortable.

I sleep with a sound machine blasting, and a pillow over my head. Earplugs didn't make a difference for me. He usually ends up on the couch.

He has also tried strips & sprays, but they don't do anything.

kelbel527 · February 2014

Bookelly said:

He also gives me a half hour *head start* on going to sleep, since he can lapse into dreamland upon his head hitting the pillow, and I, unfortunately, take longer. I feel ya!

The head start helps us too.

We've actually gotten DH's snoring under control and it's so nice!! But we tried a million things to see what works. If he's warm, sick, overtired, not comfortable or has been drinking, he snores.

Some nights we have two fans blowing on him to keep him cool and he uses a lighter blanket. If he's snoring really bad one night, I can usually just turn on a fan and he quiets down.

Breath right strips help a little bit when he's sick. But usually all bets are off if he has a cold and I just suffer through it.

If it's really bad, maybe have him talk to a doctor?

AKB090609 · February 2014

I think @mnkate had a solution a few weeks ago... I could be mistaken though.

misspunky · February 2014

I'm a bitch when it comes to sleeping and I keep waking him up and if he doesn't quit, I tell him to GTFO.

MarisaKathleen · February 2014

I find that if my DH won't roll over, putting a pillow gently over his face usually takes care of the issue.

And I've slept with ear plugs in every night for the last 8 years. If I didn't, we would probably have been divorced by now. My husband doesn't just snore, he screams through his nose. I remember one time when we were dating he slept at my parents house because he was too drunk to drive and he woke my parents up with his snoring 2 floors below them.

DH has been through a sleep study and their response was just "eh, you snore." It's not apnea or anything like that. He's just really fricking annoying. But the funny thing is, everyone else in his family snores just like him...his Dad and both of his sisters are almost worse.

MRoxy0628 · February 2014

I swore someone posted on here about some sort of device that they found that helps. Hopefully they pop in here.

I'm with @bookelly in that if I can fall asleep first, it usually doesn't bother me, but trying to fall asleep while he's snoring is fruitless.

thebanich · February 2014

DH snores and I usually just go sleep on the couch or on the guest bed. It is virtually impossible to wake him up to leave the room so I leave. If we have guests and I can't escape I put the sound machine as close to my head as possible and suffer through. His also gets worse even if he gains just a few pounds or has a cold.

mrsbhk22 · February 2014

My MIL got this for my SFIL and she swears by it. His sisters use it now too. It takes 7-10 days of use before they really noticed a difference.

https://puresleep.com/s30/homepage.php

1fish2fish · February 2014

I kick him and roll him over. It's the worst.

willy_gert · February 2014

DH has sleep apnea and his snoring was horrendous before he got his machine. Now all I have to deal with is the air blowing on me from his machine mask.

I would suggest the sleep study, there are also mouth guards, which is what I think someone else posted about a few weeks ago.

Before the Sleep Apnea machine, I would do the head start thing and roll him over if he woke me up. It was always worse if he slept on his back. Good Luck ladies! I hope you find a remedy soon!

Pokedot · February 2014

DH doesn't snore but I have experience with it because my dad was horrible. Like you could hear him 2 flights of stairs away terrible. A few years ago he was diagnosed with sleep apnea. He tried the CPAP machine but it gave him mini heart palpitations so the nixed that. Only other remedy was oral surgery. I'm not saying that's the solution for you but if it ends up like that don't take it lightly. He had a terrible time with it and he doesn't complain about anything. They basically smoothed out the roof of his mouth and get rid of his uvula. He sleeps so much better now, no waking during the night and best of all, no snoring!

BPer · February 2014

Thanks for all of the responses ladies.

I usually fall asleep an hour or so before him, but his snoring is like a build up. It starts out soft, and eventually gets so loud it startles me awake.

I'm worried I would like sleeping in another room so much that we'd never sleep in the same room again. Sigh.

BPer · February 2014

I emailed H the link to the mouth guard and he ordered it. He better have paid extra for upgraded shipping. I'm exhausted.

bosha711 · February 2014

mrsbhk22 said:

My MIL got this for my SFIL and she swears by it. His sisters use it now too. It takes 7-10 days of use before they really noticed a difference. https://puresleep.com/s30/homepage.php

MH bought this recently, but he hasn't tried it yet. If it actually works, he needs to get on it!

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