<p>My H’s weight fluctuates all over the place and has since I’ve known him, since 1975. I’m not sure I’ve noticed a difference in his snoring. I’m betting this is in nose and sinuses and might need surgery.</p>
<p>Try to get him to have a sleep study done. Sleep apnea can and does kill. It can wreck havoc on the heart and kidneys (does he get up during the night to urinate? Often that is because blood oxygen saturation drops and the body thinks the blood needs to be cleansed, so the kidneys go into overdrive). It also can cause strokes and erectile difficulties.</p>
<p>We are a three-pap family (I have a non-invasive ventilator, my husband has bipap and my daughter has a cpap). My husband swore that he would never use a pap, especially after I started using mine. He finally had to be tested for apnea after his surgeon told him he had problems under anesthesia and he began having heart arrythmia. Had a fit all the way to the sleep study. In the morning he told me he hadn’t felt so good in years.</p>
<p>Cpaps used to be “big” as you stated, but they have really improved. Machines are now very quiet, and with nasal pillows and slim hoses, can be tolerated more easily. My daughter’s is covered with a Packers skin to make it more tolerable for her…</p>
<p>My very fit husband can snore just as loudly on his side as on his back. He finally went in for a sleep study and now sleeps like a baby (a very quiet baby) with his CPAP. He cannot believe how much better he feels.</p>
<p>Start with a sleep study.</p>
<p>Breathe Rite strips have helped H’s snoring quite a bit. He has a deviated septum, but will not have the surgery. </p>
<p>I agree with the losing weight thing. His snoring has gotten much worse as he’s put weight on over the years. I go camping every year with a bunch of girl friends and the heaviest ones are the worst snorers.</p>
<p>H snored loudly and nightly for most of his adult life. I had to nudge him to lay on his side when it got really bad. He is thin and only occasionally drinks alcohol. BUT, once he no longer had to ‘do call’ for work at night by phone or going in, he has not snored. It has been 5 years now!</p>
<p>I can hear DH from the next room, right now. And, he’s on his side. Usually I can nudge him and it stops long enough for me to fall asleep. Maybe KKmama sort of answered this- my grandmother had the old CPAP that looked like a mega gas mask from WW2 and made constant noise as it cycled. Maybe I need to google what the new ones look like- all these years I’ve been assuming, (how do I put this?) that you wouldn’tw ant to sleep next to a guy wearing one-? Ok, I’ll go google.</p>
<p>My ASV (ventilator; made by Phillips Respironics) cycles, but is quieter than a ticking clock. My daughter uses a Resmed S9 elite (do NOT get one with “escape” in its name) and husband also has a machine made by Resmed. They are so quiet that you have to be almost on top of them to hear if they are turned on or not.</p>
<p>As for not wanting to sleep next to a guy wearing a mask: it sure beats snoring and it definitely beats waking up to a guy having a heart attack or stroke. The cpap board I post on makes a lot of jokes about Darth Vader games and sex lives…</p>
<p>thumper–can you tell me what kind of ear plugs? DH snores LOUDLY, to the point where I can’t be in the same room with him at night (not overweight at all). We went to stay with some friends over New Year’s Eve and I was in a mild panic about being in a room with him all night. I bought ear plugs (and even took some Benadryl) but none of it did anything at all. I could hear him right through the ear plugs. </p>
<p>And just re: the kids and snoring, I <apparently> was a HUGE snorer as a little girl. My tonsils were bad so after I had them and my adenoids out, I really don’t think I’m physically capable of snoring. I really thought it had more to do with the adenoids but I could be wrong. My oldest had his tonsils out after his freshman year of college and I sort of begged the surgeon to take out the adenoids as well but he said he wouldn’t if they were healthy. He left them in but I believe the snoring has gotten better (although that was the least of his problems with the tonsils).</apparently></p>
<p>^^^^^On my unit we used to get patients who had gotten their adenoids removed due to severe sleep apnea.</p>
<p>I use the “squishy” foam ear plugs from Walmart. I keep a plastic cup full of them just inside my nightstand drawer so I can fish out a pair in the middle of the night. They bother me if I put them in when I first go to sleep, but are a necessity many nights when DH gets going. </p>
<p>They don’t completely block the noise, but they buffer it sufficiently for me to get back to sleep. Don’t pay thousands for a “better” mattress to stop the snoring. I did and it didn’t help.</p>
<p>I had to laugh at the earlier post about her husband stopping if she rubs his chest. I am more likely to whack my H in the head with something heavy! I know it’s not his fault, but that noise is SO irritating!</p>
<p>Loosing weight usually works. If it does not, then I would go to the doc., as problem might be really serious. For you, I am aware of onlye one remedy - sleeping in a different bedroom.</p>
<p>I’m having trouble getting this msg done before this computer screws it up- but I want to say the advice here got me to look at Mayo last night and there is far more to SA than the common media tidbits we hear about. Lots of research still in progress, too many unanswered questions. Too much, in some cases, to just say lose weight or roll over. Eg, SA may indeed be behind BP fluctuations (DH) and other issues, at least partly due to what occurs over hours of lying prone, how body fluids shift upward. I thought some here were being alarmist, now I don’t want to sound that way. But I see the point-- if it’s bad, get it tested. At a certain age, too much is at stake re: the next 20-30 years of well-being. So much for avoiding Darth. Thanks, KKmama.</p>
<p>Earplugs have been my solution…in husbands nostrils!</p>
<p>Jk, but I did threaten that. I keep several types on my nightstand. I need to wake up in the morning, and even thought I dont use an alarm, I seem more likely to oversleep with earplugs. Absolitely no sleeping on the back tolerated! When he uses nasal steroids, it seems to nelp, but theoretically not right away. I worry about long term use of nasal steroids, but maybe for no gold reason.</p>
<p>When my husband (finally) went to the sleep doctor, the doctor asked me to come in also. He said he can partly diagnose based on how tired the spouses look! Apparently I looked as tired as I felt because he ordered the sleep study right away.</p>
<p>lookingforward, the CPAP is very quiet unless he accidentally knocks the mask askew and causes a rush of air. I’ve always used earplugs but was ready for separate bedrooms until he got the CPAP. He’s also much nicer to be around. It was no fun when he fell asleep in the middle of conversations! We’ve noticed more mental alertness as well, and less forgetfulness. Oh, and his previously very high blood pressure is normal now.</p>
<p>Please, keep in mind, that our advice is based on our personal experience. We assume that you can get any info from Internet that you heart desires. So, whatever studies, etc., we assume that these type of advice you can find on internet and there is no reason to waste space here to repeat them. At least, this is the approach that I have used on all threads on CC.</p>
<p>I am the snorer in my family. My husband and I have been having arguments about it and have been sleeping in my DD’s room so he can get some sleep. I know I need to lose weight and have been trying, I fluctuate so much. My son has been diagnosed with sleep apnea so maybe it runs in the family? We have to go through a second sleep study before they will outfit him with the CPap and are trying to get that scheduled. My question, isn’t the CPap machine just as loud as the snoring and just as annoying? Just wondering…</p>
<p>lammb66, no, the CPAP is much quieter. I can easily handle the CPAP sounds but the snoring was ruining our marriage. </p>
<p>But there are more reasons than that to get the CPAP. The reason so many insurance companies now offer sleep studies and CPAPs is because of the well-documented health risks of apnea, and the well-documented health benefits of a CPAP. </p>
<p>Maybe you could get your son’s second study scheduled and see how he likes the CPAP. I know many people on CPAPs, and most of them say they walk out of that second study (in which the CPAP mask is fitted to the person and adjusted to the correct pressure) feeling clearheaded and alert for the first time in months.</p>
<p>From my personal experience, I would loose weight before I try any fancy approach to solve this problem. It may or may not work. However, it works in majority of cases. In addition, loosing weight is good for your health outside of the snoring problem. So, I do not see why not now? Yes, it is not easy. However, I have lost it several times in my life. My approach was very straight forward, I just ask myself, what is harder, to loose weight or to live with it? My answer was always the choice of loosing, living with excess weight was not easy at all, I felt it every moment of my existance, the burden of carrying escess weight was unbearable to me. You can find your own incentive to make yourself loosing.<br>
If snoring is not solved by loosing weight I would seriously seek advice of a very good doc. They say that snoring is NOT something you should ignore, there are might be some serious problems with your health, it is dangerous.</p>
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