Who else sleeps with a NOISY person??

[ilovepcot]

Yes, DH snores but even worse is the fact that I'm a *horrible* sleeper. I don't usually go to bed until 3 or 4 a.m. and even then I'll read or watch t.v. I toss and turn a great deal and have to have my room ice cold. My sound machine is turned up high on "white noise" which I can't do without. Sometimes I even get up and begin reading again after sleeping only 30 minutes or so. A couple of nights ago I got up and took another shower and changed my sheets...this was actually at 5 a.m.! If my sheets aren't "just right" they drive me crazy! I'm miserable and make anyone else trying to sleep with me miserable. Poor DH. He gave up several years back and has found happiness in another wing of the house. It was the only way for our marriage to survive.

 

[CherCrazy]

I love it when I nudge my DH and he wakes up and tells me he wasnt snoring. Or even better, he wasnt even asleep

Or when he tells me to stop waking him up, how about me, I'd actually like to be able to fall asleep!!

He comes into bed and whips the blankets off of me, because HE is too hot.

I have been known to sleep in the kids beds on occasion when they are at sleepovers.

OK I hear him snoring on the couch right now, I better go to bed and fall asleep before he gets in there.

YOU are living my life too!!

OK Here's what I did when DH SWORE he doesn't snore. I called up his voice mail at work, right from bed, and let it record a few minutes of him NOT SNORING. Now he believes me.

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

My DH just says the oddest things in his sleep. Last week he had stitches in his thumb because of an accident with a steak knife and he yells out in the middle of the night, "quick turn on the lamp" and I am scared b/c I think he's busted his finger back open and I'm all like what's wrong, what's wrong? and he says "just do it, quick" so I turn on the overhead light and say "what's wrong" again and he says, "frogs are attracted to lamp shades" Huh?

And then last night I was coming to bed and he walks into the living room and smiles at me funny and then goes back to bed. I have no idea. It's stuff like that allof the time.

Wait, are you married to MY DH????

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

I used to. Then we bought a sleeper sofa. Now I just share my bed with a gassy dog and a cat that likes to sleep on my head.

Well just be thankful that it isn't the cat that is gassy then!!

I'm a restless sleeper right when I fall asleep. I've been known to whap Lauri a good one a few times. And living up to her true "MeanLaureen" form, she got back at me one day. She got up, put makeup on under her eye to make it look like she had a black eye and when I woke up, there she was - blaming it on me and my flailing arms. She is so rotton like that!

Although there was a time that she fell into the noisy category. She was taking this new medicine that had a side effect where it would cause Night Tremors - not nightmares because she would wake up and see this stuff. The majority of them were scary as hell and she would be screaming about someone in the room trying to kill her - until one night. She had the potato night tremor. She said there were potatoes singing and dancing across the dresser in our bedroom. I asked her how many and she started saying "one potato, two potato, three potato, four, five potato, six potato, seven potato, TURNIP." I said "There is a turnip singing and dancing on the dresser? She said - in all seriousness because remember, she isn't fully conscious of reality - "Don't be dumb , he's playing the piano".

 

[CherCrazy]

My DH just says the oddest things in his sleep. Last week he had stitches in his thumb because of an accident with a steak knife and he yells out in the middle of the night, "quick turn on the lamp" and I am scared b/c I think he's busted his finger back open and I'm all like what's wrong, what's wrong? and he says "just do it, quick" so I turn on the overhead light and say "what's wrong" again and he says, "frogs are attracted to lamp shades" Huh?

And then last night I was coming to bed and he walks into the living room and smiles at me funny and then goes back to bed. I have no idea. It's stuff like that allof the time.

my DH talks in his sleep too. His classic is the time he said in a perfect Elmer Fudd voice "you wascally wabbit". He was dead asleep!

 

[btass]

My DH has sleep apnea, he has had the CPAP machine for about 3 years now.

Before he got the machine, he had broken his arm in two places while playing softball (he ran into the backstop) and had a huge cast. His first night back in bed with me he fell asleep, snored and then, true to form, flailed his arms. Well, you know I got nailed in the face with that horrible cast! I had to go to work the next day with a black eye! I was a Teller in a bank at that point and I had to explain it all day long!

A tip for anyone that is trying to get a loved one tested for sleep apnea:
(this is what convinced my DH to go)
Average life span for a male in America @ 74 years. Minus 20 years off of that and it is the average life span of a male in America with sleep apnea.

My DH was 40 when he was tested. I told him that he would be dead by 60 and I would be livin' large on his life insurance! Don't worry he thought it was funny!

 

[Mad4Mickey]

how about with a noisy dog?? Our little old weenier dog is into the whole snoring thing now .He has also started running in his sleep this is strange because he lays around when he is awake LOL

 

[YourMajesty]

I'm the noisy one...but not snoring. I'm just not a good sleeper. Usually I stay up late on the DIS waiting to get sleeply. The other night I sent DH flying out of bed trying to get a gobstopper (willy wonka candy) out of the box. When I tipped the box they were so loud he thought it was a machine gun...oops! Then when I do sleep I will see strange things in my sleep and turn on the light...like bugs or spiders. Usually later in the night I will have a nightmare. However, I would be in a nice dream every morning at 8am if I could sleep that late(and I do when I can get away with it).

 

[Goofygirls4God]

It's 12:36 am and I am still up and can hear my DH-the walls are shaking and I am in the kitchen...I fear for the life of my dog who is in there right this very minute!

Noisy is a modest description to the man that shares my bed!

 

[makinorlando]

Does a canine count? Princess snores (and is a bed hog too!!)

 

[jfulcer]

I have suggested to DH that he go to doctor but he wont. he is already on high blood pressure medicine and doesnt desire to take anything else. what does he care? he thinks he sleeps okay. like talking to a wall.

Oh, this one is EASY. Do you want his blood pressure to go DOWN? Without medications????

If he's got Sleep Apnea, it's been proven that it directly leads to - yep you guessed it - High Blood Pressure. My BP was always 'borderline high' when I was tested before I started sleeping with a CPAP. Afterwards - 'normal'.

They do say you need to be on the CPAP earlier in your life because the longer you go with Sleep Apnea, the less chance that resolving it will fix your High Blood Pressure. My dad was able to cut his HBP medicine intake in half once he started with his CPAP - because I told him to.

There are no pills to take, no shots, no blood to test. It's as easy as 1-2-3:

1) See you primary care physician for a referral. (some may not need this, check your insurance.)
2) Go to a Sleep study clinic and SLEEP. Yes, they hook a few wires up to you to monitor you, but all you do is sleep. During my test, they actually woke me up in the middle of the night and started testing me with a CPAP. they knew from my tests (without interpretation from a DR) that I had it VERY severe.
3) Visit with the Sleep specialist afterwards to find out what is wrong/etc.

Sleeping with the CPAP machine took a few days of getting used to, but now it goes anywhere that I go overnight. On vacation to WDW too.

EVERYONE!!!!
The Canadian health department has a great handbook online about Sleep Apnea. get it here. Print it out and have your snorer read it.

For those that are afraid, tell them there's MORE to be afraid of for not getting this treated. Plus the benefits of having a happy, rested, appreciative spouse once you are NOT snoring are pretty good. Insurance should pay for ALL of it (or most of it). A person with Sleep Apnea will spend 2.5 times more on their healthcare than will the person that's had theirs treated.

 

[jfulcer]

It's 12:36 am and I am still up and can hear my DH-the walls are shaking and I am in the kitchen...I fear for the life of my dog who is in there right this very minute!

Noisy is a modest description to the man that shares my bed!

Get a video camera and record him snoring. Play it back for him the next day as LOUD as you can. THEN maybe he'll understand.

 

[jfulcer]

Well I try several things with DH and nothing works. Elbowing him, trying to hold his nose shut, shouting, For the Love of God will you please stop snoring, o.k. that was in pure desperation. Nothing, nothing, ever, ever never works. I am miserable and such a cranky bear in the morning all because of dh, but there is a little hope right around the corner, dh is going away for a long, long, 2 week business trip out of the country in may, so I will finally get some sleep, oh no, but then again I will probably be up worrrying about him etc, since he wont be able to contact me too much.

Tell him he can sleep in the garage until he gets tested. I fully believe this is one of those 'tough love' type things that you need to do for your spouse as much as yourself.

 

[jfulcer]

my DH is so loud, you can hear him all the way in the front yard!!

TOUGH LOVE. Tell him that he can sleep in the yard until he gets tested.

If I can just get ONE of these spouses tested that's been posted about on this thread, I'll be happy. I've personally gotten at least 6 people in and tested, I'd like to make that many more.

 

[Snow_White]

Holy crap, you've just described my life...the last couple of weeks have been so bad it's CRAZY!! My husband is sick and consequently he snores so freaking LOUD...I swear, it is like someone YELLING in your ear all night long. It's been so bad lately, I can't get 1 wink of sleep with him next to me......ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is why it is 2 am and I'm still online! lol! It's funny, because he is so apologetic about it--there is just nothing he can do about it since he is so congested lol.

Even worse than my husband is our dog....she barks and growls in her sleep!! It's just like a person who talks in their sleep, except she actually barks!! It will scare the crap out of you at 5 am. She is the funniest dog...when she is awake she NEVER barks (maybe once a week, MAX--and only at the UPS truck!! lol that truck is her mortal enemy), but in her sleep she goes wild! Crazy little doggie

 

[Kteacher]

My DH was diagnosed with sleep apnea last year. His was so bad that the technician woke him up during the sleep study to hook him up to a cpap machine because he had already stopped breathing over 300 times I now sleep with Darth Vader, because that's what it sounds like He is definitely more awake during the day. After almost 22 years of marriage, I've just learned to live on 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night.

 

[Goofygirls4God]

Get a video camera and record him snoring. Play it back for him the next day as LOUD as you can. THEN maybe he'll understand.

That's a great idea!You think he would get the message when he wakes himself up! Oh, the beauty of justice when that happens!

Even in a deep sleep I have to contain my laughter!