My wife wants me to leave home ...

[Lone Rider]

... if I don't stop snoring. Any helpful hints? ... about stopping snoring, or about where to go

 

[Willow]

Work a different shift and sleep at different times?

 

[ColinJ]

This website might help.

 

[stoatsngroats]

My wife snores, and I use these...

http://www.arco.co.uk/products/235100/108516/E.A.R_Classicsoft_Ear_Plugs

....don't just think there cheap and nasty crap - they're damn good stuff!

I can still hear my phone alarm when it goes off at 3.45am, but I don't hear her snoring....seriously - it saved our marriage!

You can get these in chemists, but make sure you get the yellow full cyclinder type, NOT any which are tapered.

...and you squeeze them between your fingers to make a tapered end, and insert it in your lug...it slowly enlarges......FANTASTIC!

 

[beancounter]

... if I don't stop snoring. Any helpful hints? ... about stopping snoring, or about where to go

Are you overweight at all?

I used to snore quite badly, but since I lost about a stone and a half in weight I've stopped completely.

bc

 

[Lone Rider]

This website might help.

Thanks, Colin, looks like an interesting page, with possible solutions.

 

[Lone Rider]

My wife snores, and I use these...

http://www.arco.co.uk/products/235100/108516/E.A.R_Classicsoft_Ear_Plugs

....don't just think there cheap and nasty crap - they're damn good stuff!

I can still hear my phone alarm when it goes off at 3.45am, but I don't hear her snoring....seriously - it saved our marriage!

Thanks, Stoatsngroats, I bought some a couple of months ago for my wife but ... she doesn't use them.

 

[Lone Rider]

Are you overweight at all?

I used to snore quite badly, but since I lost about a stone and a half in weight I've stopped completely.

bc

Hi Beancounter, this may be a factor. I have "always" snored, but recently it has been getting worse. I stopped smoking a few years ago and immediately started putting on weight.

In an attempt to loose weight I cycled from Amsterdam to Milan last summer, about 1,300 kms in two weeks, and I lost less than three pounds! How far would I have to cycle to loose a stone and a half?

Thanks, I'm still working on that one.

 

[beancounter]

Hi Beancounter, this may be a factor. I have "always" snored, but recently it has been getting worse. I stopped smoking a few years ago and immediately started putting on weight.

In an attempt to loose weight I cycled from Amsterdam to Milan last summer, about 1,300 kms in two weeks, and I lost less than three pounds! How far would I have to cycle to loose a stone and a half?

Thanks, I'm still working on that one.

It took me a year to lose the weight. I'd like to lose a bit more but seem to have "plateau'd".

It's a long and gradual process! Oddly enough the snoring stopped quite quickly, as I remember it...

bc

 

[SoulOnIce]

This website might help.

This website is very handy. Try the three different tests to id what type of snorer you are.

I am a very bad tongue base snorer. Someone I know who makes medical devices fitted me up for a personally sized mandibular advancement device. Though I'm guessing the devices on the website are ok too.

It takes a few nights to get used to wearing it - for the first week I put in when I went to bed but ended up taking it out in the middle of the night. It sometimes felt very restrictive and almost like it was choking me. But I persevered and after about a week I got used to it - the trick is to relax your mouth when you have it it in. It is like having a gumshield in.

Plus for the first week or so your jaw does get a bit sore as it is gets used to being moved slightly forward.

I wear it every night and it is very comnfortable and my wife says she can now sleep in peace. It might seem like a lot to pay but I can assure you it works and has made both mine and my wife's lives and sleep time much better.

Thoroughly recommended for those who are tongue base snorers.

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

A drop of Olbasiol on the pillow can sometimes ease snoring.

 

[peanut]

there is only one practical solution to snoring with an instant effect and that is a special mouth guard which can be made by your dentist or through your Doctor.

To see what I mean try this little test.

Make a typical snoring noise ok ?.......right

Now ... push your bottom jaw forward as far as you comfortably can ,about half an inch or so. ok ?

now try to make a snoring noise see what I mean.

Go to your quacks and explain how it is ruining your marriage blah blah and ask him to refer you to a specialist to get a mouth guard made which holds your bottom jaw forward.

edit ahh I see soulonice got there before me and I was too lazy to read throgh all the posts sorry

 

[Dayvo]

Something like this has had good results in Scandinavia:

http://www.gumshields.com/gumshields_public/gumshields_snore/gumshields_stop.htm

 

[peanut]

Something like this has had good results in Scandinavia:

http://www.gumshields.com/gumshields_public/gumshields_snore/gumshields_stop.htm

but it only works in Scandinavia

 

[puddleglum]

I am a bit of a snorer, but the problem was eased by nasal surgery - I had a deviated septum and had to have my turbinators removed. This helped enormously, but smoking, drinking and getting a bit fat can easily ruin the good effects.
It might be well worth having the GP check this out, or get referred to the hospital for a specialist to cast their beady eye over it.....
Surely leaving home is a bit drastic? Couldn't you temporarily go to another bedroom / the couch?