How do you sleep with SNORING spouses?

[CJK]

Shhhh, don't tell..........but my dh is starting to snore!

To those of you who are veteran "sleep-with-snorers", how do you do it??????? I've been trying a bunch of things. I've tried to roll him over (usually unsuccessfully), I've tried waking him up (doesn't go over well! ) and I've tried sleeping with a very powerful fan but that just raises our electricity bill. Any other ideas? I'd rather not sleep in another room just yet!

Help!

 

[Megan's Mom]

The thing that works the best for me is to get to sleep first with the covers pulled over my head. When you find a cure let me know. My poor DH is black and blue on his legs.

 

[Mad4Mickey]

Well when my husband snores ( and that is not often) I just whisper in his ear and then when he wakes up a little I pretend I am sleeping LOL. I whisper things like "We have a code 3" or something else related to his job . I know it is evil but it works

Good Luck
Mishell

 

[mrsv98]

My sweet DH snores...a LOT! it was getting really bad since he had a sinus infection. A week or so ago, I got him Breath Right nasal strips and the Breath Right throat spray and the combonation really works for him. He hardly snores at all now and if he does is is a gentle hand saw, not a 20HP chainsaw!

 

[janette]

You get as used to it as you can. Falling asleep first works, punching them stops it for a few minutes. Just have to tune it out. The hardest for me is that sometimes I'll hear something and not be sure what it is. I have to listen to see if it's part of the snoring or something from the kids etc.

 

[Megan's Mom]

We tried the breath right strips and that made DH's sinus passage even more open for more air to snore through.

 

[Pooh67_68]

I feel your pain, my husband sometimes snores so loud that he wakes himself up. LOL
I read somewhere that if a person who snores rolls over on their right side it usally makes them stop. So when my husband starts to snor I will shake him and tell him to roll over it works great .

 

[DemonLlama]

I've been shoving my husband to roll over for nearly 13 years now. For Christmas I got a new digital camera that takes video. I was up late reading one night last week and hubby was snoring. He's always been in denial about this, so I shot about one minute of his snoring and played it back for him the next day, as proof. He was so apologetic, and I know it's not his fault.

I've learned a few things over the years:

If you can get to sleep before he does (for me, by at least half an hour) it seems to help my sleep cycle, and therefore not get as disturbed by the snoring. If I stay up past him, those are the nights I feel like I'm awake all night.

When he is the least bit stuffed up, he takes two Benadryl before bed. This helps avoid the chainsaw effect!

I push on his shoulder, rolling it over his chest to get him to flip off of his back, which is where the worst snoring takes place. My DH is a heavy sleeper, so he moves, but doesn't wake up.

Waking up DH is a surefire way to make everyone disgruntled, but when all else fails, I can handle disgruntled if I can get some sleep.

Run the bathroom fan, or get one of those air purifiers that has a fan. The white noise helps and it doesn't run up the electricity.

Own a good couch and have blankets at the ready.

Keep your sense of humor!

My DH's skin is allergic to the adhesive in the nose strips, so he can't use those, but for others. I've heard they are fantastic.

 

[ez]

 

[crz4mm2]

Ear plugs

 

[DopeyRN]

DH had a sleep study which showed no sleep apnea but he..and I quote.."snored loudly 95% of the total sleep time". I gave up and bought him a beautiful overstuffed recliner for Christmas which is in the computer room. We first tried and failed allergy medication, breathe right strips and snore spray, he snores just as loud on his side as his back. So we sleep apart. But the dog and I are now resting much better.

 

[Cantw8]

Please, for his sake and yours, have a sleep study done. My DH and I have had many fights over this, mostly do to the fact that I had been sleep deprived for over twenty years. I finally convinced him to do a sleep study and it turns out he had sleep apena. Not good as the heart actually stops....in his case, more than 10 times during the night (this is extreme and not the norm). He is now using a breathing apparatus. It looks like an oxygen mask worn by fighter pilots. It has been a life saver. He can now sleep undisturbed (his snoring would actually wake him up as he would gasp for air) and I sleep like a baby (the residual sounds made by this machine act as white noise and help me to sleep). We have no more fights, and neither one of us walks around like a zombie. Talk to your doctor.

 

[Cruisin]

We too sleep apart, actually on different floors of the house

We both snore and we bother each other. Husband is a light sleeper and says I wake him up, but when I am awake I hear some good snoring coming from him.

We are also different in sleep schedules. He can go to bed at 8:30 - 9 o'clock some nights and I don't like to go before 11:30 sometimes later. So if he is sleeping and I go in to go to bed it wakes him up and he can't go back to sleep. He needs a LOT of sleep and I can get by with a lot LESS sleep than him.

It is just easier and we both get a better rest if we are apart.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

I second the sleep study suggestion. My husband had an in-home test during his sleep and also has sleep apnea. Now he sleeps with a machine (a cpac one). Furthermore, my husband is now in the business of helping others with sleep apnea.

 

[chell]

Index finger poked in the ribs

Heel to the shin

Pillow over either head

Elbow to the back

Those are a few of my tips!

My husband really does need to have the sleep study done also. I do think he has sleep apnea. Hopefully he can get one scheduled one of these years. It would also help his blood pressure!

 

[phillybeth]

Ditto on the earplugs.

Also, flopping around like a wounded fish usually wakes him up enough to stop snoring, so I can get back to sleep.

When DH would fall asleep watching TV, I used to wake him up to come to bed. Silly me!

 

[onecoolmama]

I wake him up and tell him to turn over. If that doesnt work, I hit him really hard. When he wakes up..I tell him to wait until I fall back asleep before he goes back to sleep! It doesnt go over well with him either...but he will either deal with it or ask the doctor to help him! I am not going to lose sleep over it!!!

 

[helenabear]

I sleep with a fan at night... not a very big or powerful one, but it does help drown out other noise w/o totally blocking "necessary" sounds. Good luck

 

[Chattyaholic]

DH and I have separate rooms too, his downstairs, mine upstairs. We put up with each other's snoring for several years, then finally decided separate rooms would be better and it works great, we both get a good night's rest now.

When we travel we always get a room with two beds, and we each wear earplugs and have the fan running too. Or, better yet, we get a 2-room suite (of course HE always gets the bedroom then, and I take the couch since I'm shorter and "fit better" on the couch ).

 

[winniedapooh]

DH snores like he is sawing through a redwood tree.....many years ago I read an article in Ann Landers where a woman had lost her husband and would give anything if she could have one more night with his snoring. I never forgot that and on those nights he is called out to work, guess who can't sleep, lol!