Snoring

[WOM]

So, like my father before me, I now snore like a chainsaw. It's driving L absolutely mental and is really taking a toll on her sleep quality.

After much research, last night I taped my mouth before bed and it worked a treat. Didn't bother me in the least, and worked perfectly to keep my mouth shut and keep me nose-breathing and quiet.

Anyone else here a bad snorer? Any other solutions that worked?

[scratchmonkey]

My wife is the snorer in our household. Don't think she'd react well to the mouth-taping suggestion. She does want to do a sleep study; we're waiting until the pandemic is more managed.

We've dealt with it by getting a couch that easily converts to a bed, and then swapping who sleeps where.

[WOM]

Yeah, I know the taped mouth sounds like lunacy. But it was really nothing, and worked perfectly.

[San Bernardhinault]

I snore like a freight train, apparently.

The solutions for me are

- Make sure I don't sleep on my back. This is hard as my instincts are to always roll onto my back
- Make sure I'm properly hydrated. Drinking water definitely helps.
- When I'm less of a tubster than I am now. Weight loss makes a massive difference.
- Slightly damper air. Related to dehydration. If I'm in the desert, at elevation, or in one of those super-dry very cold middle of America winters, I snore worse.

[Amor de Cosmos]

We both snore, routinely but not inevitably. We both find sleeping on one's side stops it. Also if my head/torso is raised it prevents snoring. An adjustable bed is in our near future.

[Greenlander]

I've tried allsorts but Mrs G is such a light sleeper the only reliable method to avoid being elbowed in the ribs and woken up at three in the morning is to sleep on the couch. It's pretty much my defacto bed nowadays which has it's upside as I can drfit off listening to the cricket from down under or other late night radio.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

I snore quite badly. The frequency of it is mitigated by (a) losing weight to the point where I am no longer overweight (b) drinking less alcohol and (c) using a pharmacy product called "snore strips", kind of dissolving patches which you push up against the rear top of our mouth (soft palate?) just before lying down to sleep.

I would be lying if I claimed that the reduction in snoring was a "solution" in my particular circumstances but that's enough said.

[Greenlander]

But to answer the original question, I've really not found much that works. Nasal strips can be alright sometimes but there efficacy seems completely random and if I've had a couple of beers the couch is the only option.

I'm in two minds over seeing a specialist. SB's drinking water solution sounds intriguing though I'm imagining that'd lead to a middle of the night toilet break.

[WOM]

L says it only happens when I'm on my back, which is weird since I've always been most happy / comfortable sleeping on my sides. Also, and this is odd, I raise my arms above my head. Like...up on the pillow, toward the headboard. No idea why I do this.

[Nefertiti2]

L says it only happens when I'm on my back, which is weird since I've always been most happy / comfortable sleeping on my sides. Also, and this is odd, I raise my arms above my head. Like...up on the pillow, toward the headboard. No idea why I do this.

probably building a dream shed, I'd imagine.

[Fussbudget]

SB's drinking water solution sounds intriguing though I'm imagining that'd lead to a middle of the night toilet break.

Wait, some people don't have a middle of the night toilet break?

[Amor de Cosmos]

L says it only happens when I'm on my back, which is weird since I've always been most happy / comfortable sleeping on my sides. Also, and this is odd, I raise my arms above my head. Like...up on the pillow, toward the headboard. No idea why I do this.

It's probably a childhood thing, from a time when your body was relatively larger than your arms. It often isn't comfortable for infants to sleep with their arms by their side so they sleep with them over their head. I noticed AdeC jr did it in his crib, I've since noticed I do it too usually just as I'm falling asleep or waking up.

[scratchmonkey]

After getting what-was-probably-covid, I had horrible bouts of insomnia, and as part of researching it, I found out about "first and second sleep" or segmented sleep, which is apparently how people slept in pre-industrial/pre-electric times, which was you slept for a bit when it got dark, then got up somewhere around midnight/early morning, did stuff for a couple hours, then went back to sleep.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Yeah. The division between first and second sleep is probably the same as between "deep" sleep and REM sleep. People often wake between them, and can't get back to sleep because their mind starts racing. It makes sense to get up for awhile and do something else until you feel drowsy again.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Both Mrs. NS and I snore, but not dreadfully so. I get the odd kick or shove to wake me up but usually we just tolerate each other, as we're good sleepers. Duvet hogging though...

As for the snoring on your back thing, one of the solutions I've heard of is sewing a couple of marbles into the middle of the back of your nightwear so if you roll onto your, er, back the discomfort makes you move on to your side.

[scratchmonkey]

Yeah. The division between first and second sleep is probably the same as between "deep" sleep and REM sleep. People often wake between them, and can't get back to sleep because their mind starts racing. It makes sense to get up for awhile and do something else until you feel drowsy again.

I got a sleep tracker as part of responding to the aforementioned sleep issues and this is exactly how it goes for me, a block of deep sleep after falling asleep until a wakeup somewhere between 1 and 3AM, followed by 1 to 3 staggered wakeups with REM sleep in-between.

[Sits]

I’ve slept on my side for about ten years to prevent snoring. It works 95% of the time. I lie in the recovery position so I can’t roll onto my back.

This split sleep thing is interesting. I reckon I may be starting to get that, but the wake up is at an annoyingly later time like 3:30 or 4am.

[Sits]

After getting what-was-probably-covid, I had horrible bouts of insomnia, and as part of researching it, I found out about "first and second sleep" or segmented sleep, which is apparently how people slept in pre-industrial/pre-electric times, which was you slept for a bit when it got dark, then got up somewhere around midnight/early morning, did stuff for a couple hours, then went back to sleep.

But in pre-industrial times it was dark in the middle of the night. So unless everyone was up so they lit candles etc? Otherwise the pottering about wouldn’t be very effective.

[pebblethefish]

My snores are so musical that they would make Bach and Beethoven hang up their batons (or whatever the fuck composers have, I don't know) in frustration that they couldn't equal the smooth melodies.

Or they might, anyway. It's been a fair while since anyone shared my bed, so I have no witnesses to the contrary.

[hobbes]

I sometimes snore while I'm still awake.

[WOM]

Night 2 of tape-mouth went even better. L said she didn't even wake up once. Tape stayed in place. I had to get up around 1:30 and felt like a bit of a tit sitting on the toilet with tape on my face, but neither of the cats said anything. Onward.

[pebblethefish]

Couldn't L just have a half bottle of whisky before bed? That'd stop her waking up.

[WOM]

No, it's me that has to do all the work.

[pebblethefish]

Well, then you could have a half bottle of whisky straight after waking up, then you wouldn't give a damn what she said?

As previously noted, I am single for a reason.

[Sporting]

As previously noted, I am single for a reason.

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