Who else sleeps with a NOISY person??

[Bunchkin]

You know who I'm talking about!! The person who sleeps next to you night after night, and just WON'T shut up!!!

For me, this would be DH.

Now I admit I am a little bit of light sleeper, but how can one sleep with all the NOISE!!!!

He grinds his teeth, smacks his lips, flip-flops, scratches his hairy belly, mumbles, snores, steals the blankets, thinks he needs to abruptly swing his enormously heavy arms on top of me, knees me in my back when all of the sudden he's lying on an angle and occasionally knocks me on the head while he's flopping around (I have given him a few knocks or two over the years as retaliation!!! ).

This is almost a NIGHTLY event!!!

I am now plotting my revenge!!



Anyone else feeling my pain???

 

[PooohBear]

I now feel my DHs pain, I grind my teeth VERY loudly and tend to do alot of tossing and turning and have smacked him accidently too

 

[anewvance]

I've got one of those too. When it's not snoring, he's grunting or breathing like it's the last breathe he'll ever take. He hasn't slept in the same bed as me since the accident last Wed, I just can't handle it right now!

 

[Planogirl]

I used to. Mine rattled the walls and after several years of it, I had to give up. Nothing could be done medically either so it was hopeless.

 

[Michie]

oh yes indeed. The Dh has sleep apnea, which is why I sleep on the other side of the house

 

[Aidensmom]

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.

 

[polly p]

You know who I'm talking about!! The person who sleeps next to you night after night, and just WON'T shut up!!!

For me, this would be DH.

Now I admit I am a little bit of light sleeper, but how can one sleep with all the NOISE!!!!

He grinds his teeth, smacks his lips, flip-flops, scratches his hairy belly, mumbles, snores, steals the blankets, thinks he needs to abruptly swing his enormously heavy arms on top of me, knees me in my back when all of the sudden he's lying on an angle and occasionally knocks me on the head while he's flopping around (I have given him a few knocks or two over the years as retaliation!!! ).

This is almost a NIGHTLY event!!!

I am now plotting my revenge!!



Anyone else feeling my pain???

I felt like I was reading about my life!!

 

[Micca]

Some of us are just true perfection during our waking hours, so please cut us some slack while we rest up for more excellence tomorrow.

 

[tink38]

Yup...I have that here. I just kick him when it gets too loud. We have a sofa bed, too - but I only use it if it gets too extreme. (if the kicking doesn't stop it!!!)



Monique

 

[lbgraves]

Oh my! DH snores like a buzz saw. He is away for a while on in internship though & I know that I miss him terribly...even his snoring. He came home for a weekend visit & instead of pushing him to make him stop snoring I just listened to him. I went to sleep to that sound for the first time.

 

[Lisa L from MI]

Lets just say "thank goodness we are on opposite shifts"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Marseeya]

What are you guys doing sleeping with my husband???

 

[Bunchkin]

And there's more..........

At home we have a king size bed, so when we go on vacations the "bed hog" causes soooo much noise that I'll go sleep with DD in the other bed. The perfect vacation was in Dec 2003 at WDW, we had 2 connecting rooms at POP and I slept in the other bed by myself for 2 WEEKS!!!!!!!

It was heavenly!!!!!! At last there was enough distance between us to get some sleep!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

My DH is noisy for sure! A couple of weeks ago our 6yo son was sick with a high fever and was imagining that his brother, who he shares a room with, was yelling at him. I got a little scared and brought my 6yo in to my room and made him a bed on my floor so I could keep an eye and ear on him. You'd think I was torturing my DH. My DH eventually got up and found earplugs and the next morning complained to me about how noisy Jake was, expecting me to agree. I told him that I hadn't noticed since Jake isn't nearly was noisy as he is! My DH didn't appreciate that!

 

[Horseshoes]

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.

 

[Kimberly]

I'm on the orginal poster's side too. My boyfriend just cannot stop rolling around and it drives me absolutely insane. I have just pushed him off the bed a few times with my feet though in retaliation.

 

[jahexom]

I feel your pain and I'm looking forward to DH's next business trip. In the meantime, however, we have a sound machine. I set it to "Summer Nights". If DH gets too loud, I just crank up the crickets and finally get some sleep.

Jen

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

I only have to put up with it on the weekends. During the week DH works nights so I get the whole bed to myself!!

 

[jfulcer]

Does your husband/wife/significant other:

• Appear to stop breathing while they are snoring/sleeping loudly?
• Snore so loud that you think that it'll wake up the neighbors?
• Fall asleep during the day at the drop of the hat during the day but seems to sleep all night long while snoring?
• Almost nod off while driving?

If so, they could have a serious condition called Sleep Apnea. Sleep Apnea happens when the tissue at the back of your throat repeatedly closes up while you are sleeping. Snoring is the sound of this tissue in the throat vibrating from the air going past it. This tissue closes off your airway and the person physically stops breathing. The body recognizes this because your blood oxygen level drops. To counteract this, your body wakes you up but only enough to start you breathing again. This happens many many times per hour - for me it was 60+ times. I was NEVER getting REM sleep.

Sleep Apnea is a serious disease with possibly deadly consequences. It can cause high blood pressue, heart problems, breathing problems - and in rare occasions might cause death.

You can get diagnosed with Sleep Apnea by going to your doctor and getting a referral to a sleep clinic. You sleep a night in their facility and they monitor you to see if you have a problem. It's easy, painless, and most insurance companies cover it 100%

There is a resolution! Surgery most likely will not resolve this problem. But people with Sleep Apnea can sleep with a CPAP machine that applies a constant air pressure to your breathing pathway - keeping that tissue open and allowing you to sleep like a baby. It's like a white noise machine for your bedmate.

Please, if you know someone that snores heavily, ask them to get tested. If not for themselves, ask them to do it for you. My wife doesn't know how she ever got any sleep before I got my machine. Get the sleep YOU deserve - and you don't have to do it in another bed across the house!!!

 

[Planogirl]

Good advice Jeff. My husband was immediately tested when the doctor heard that he snored so badly. No sleep apnea here but we were told that it's really fairly common!