Snoring help

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My wife has a snoring problem, and it seems to have gotten worse over the last few years (note: I might also snore). She usually goes to bed before I do, so by the time I hit the pillow she’s already asleep and snoring. As it’s getting worse, I feel it’s starting to affect me more and more. For the last year or so I’ve been sleeping with generic foam earplugs, and while they help somewhat, I can still hear her.

She’s so bad that I was eating breakfast downstairs yesterday and could still hear her snoring.

We do have a spare room, but the mattress is more of a soft “day bed.” I’m starting to consider giving up and permanently moving out of our shared bedroom.

Has anyone else encountered this? Did you manage to fix it somehow?
 
I snored while I was carrying excess weight, I've shifted 45 kilos give or take, no more snoring. This may or may not be applicable to your svelte missus :D
 
Have you looked at the NHS advice pages, bad snoring is sometimes made much worse by things like smoking, diet, weight, not fit enough etc.
 
SPeak to your doctor, but a CPAP machine is a possibility.
Might be an underlying health issue too which could mean other things to assist. Unsure if they are on any meds either, but a possibility too.
But otherwise mainly its a diet and weight thing which makes it worse.
 
Medical tape might work, which forces nasal breathing. But someone has to be comfortable with it. Its
low cost and easy to try. I use it and I think it helps me with sleep talking which I am very good at.

Some research found that breathing exercises can help sleep apnoea / airway blockages. But obviously that takes effort for the person to do it. Specifically, shankh blowing was what they studied.

There are sleep active noise cancelling earbuds too. I got a pair and they're great, they lay flat and I can sleep on my side with them.
 
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I just banished my wife to the guest bedroom and we both sleep better now. She has a CPAP but when she isn't using it I can still here her snoring at times (I am a pretty crap sleeper)
 
adencool said:
Has anyone else encountered this? Did you manage to fix it somehow?
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Breathe Easy nose strips (or off-brand equivalents) work for my wife. She says they help her sleep better too. It depends on what is causing the snoring.
 
Doesn't mean there's not an underlying issue, but someone being on the larger side is always a good shout when looking for an explanation :D
 
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If she is overweight, then Step one is to lose weight.

Until then, you can sleep in separate beds, it is more common than you think.
 
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