Husband snores and i can't sleep

[Anonymous]

this is so hopeless and depressing

OP I average about 1 full night's sleep a month. It has aggravated a pre-existing health is I have and I am constantly angry and overtired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has been going on for months.

He snores, LOUD. It generally wakes me up some time between 1 am and 3 am, and then I can't get back to sleep. When I wake and hear it, I tell him, he adjusts his sleeping position a bit and snoring stops....for about 2 minutes. Then it starts again. I tell him again. Repeat. Usually I just give up after about 4 or 5 rounds of this and just come to terms with the fact that I'm not getting any more sleep that night.

He denies he snores as much as he does. He says he realizes that he snores but it wakes him up to and he immediately stops. Wrong. He goes on and on for hours.

We have no spare room/guest room. I am seriously considering getting a hotel room tonight. I haven't got a full night's sleep in months and I'm exhausted. I get next to nothing done all day because I'm so tired. This is worse than when we had newborn babies.

I just need to vent. Thank you.

This is probably the best reason I've read for buying a house with an additional bedroom so you can sleep in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CPAP. If he has apena he could suffocate and die.

Suffocation isn't the real risk with apnea. It's the toll apnea takes on the heart. Can lead to stroke/heart attack.

[Anonymous]

Can you sleep on the couch? Trade off nights on the couch?

It helps if my husband rolls on his side. Try asking him to sleep in a different position.

The soft ear plugs help. Try a few nights of taking Tylenol PM and using the soft ear plugs. Good luck, that's tough!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been going on for months.

He snores, LOUD. It generally wakes me up some time between 1 am and 3 am, and then I can't get back to sleep. When I wake and hear it, I tell him, he adjusts his sleeping position a bit and snoring stops....for about 2 minutes. Then it starts again. I tell him again. Repeat. Usually I just give up after about 4 or 5 rounds of this and just come to terms with the fact that I'm not getting any more sleep that night.

He denies he snores as much as he does. He says he realizes that he snores but it wakes him up to and he immediately stops. Wrong. He goes on and on for hours.

We have no spare room/guest room. I am seriously considering getting a hotel room tonight. I haven't got a full night's sleep in months and I'm exhausted. I get next to nothing done all day because I'm so tired. This is worse than when we had newborn babies.

I just need to vent. Thank you.

This is probably the best reason I've read for buying a house with an additional bedroom so you can sleep in it.

Not really, my DH is a horrible snorer too and we can hear from all over the house. The basement is the only space it doesn't travel too. If only he'd lose 10lbs....the snoring would disappear

[Anonymous]

He sleeps on the couch or goes back on the cpap. If he doesn't have it anymore, he gets a new one. I am in a similar position, except that I also have a newborn baby, and DH's snoring wakes both of us up at night. Breathe right strips are helping some. You could also try taking half a unisom at night.

[Anonymous]

Weight loss + cpap machine + white noise machine + he needs to sleep on his side or stomach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been going on for months.

He snores, LOUD. It generally wakes me up some time between 1 am and 3 am, and then I can't get back to sleep. When I wake and hear it, I tell him, he adjusts his sleeping position a bit and snoring stops....for about 2 minutes. Then it starts again. I tell him again. Repeat. Usually I just give up after about 4 or 5 rounds of this and just come to terms with the fact that I'm not getting any more sleep that night.

He denies he snores as much as he does. He says he realizes that he snores but it wakes him up to and he immediately stops. Wrong. He goes on and on for hours.

We have no spare room/guest room. I am seriously considering getting a hotel room tonight. I haven't got a full night's sleep in months and I'm exhausted. I get next to nothing done all day because I'm so tired. This is worse than when we had newborn babies.

I just need to vent. Thank you.

This is probably the best reason I've read for buying a house with an additional bedroom so you can sleep in it.

Not really, my DH is a horrible snorer too and we can hear from all over the house. The basement is the only space it doesn't travel too. If only he'd lose 10lbs....the snoring would disappear

Dumb and grossly exaggerated. Sleeping in a different bedroom (especially if it has a few walls between yours and his) will drastically reduce the noise. If you use earplugs, I guarantee even the lightest sleeper won't hear him.

[Anonymous]

My DH snores too, and he also has a neurological condition that causes his legs to be very restless and twitchy throughout the night. There have been times in our marriage where I've been so desperate for a good night's sleep that I've actually scheduled business trips. My DH feels awful about it though, and will offer to move to the couch if it's really bad. He's been better since on a different medication. We also confirmed he doesn't have sleep apnea.

I have a DOHM sound machine by my side of the bed. We also have a king size bed and I put a pillow between us to further muffle the noise. Plus the foam earplugs - if you follow the instructions for putting them in correctly, they do work. Plus the kids' monitor is on his side of the bed and he does wakeups.

For your DH - CPAP or the couch, seriously.

[Anonymous]

This was me about 6 months ago. I would wake up to the snoring and could NOT get back to sleep. I was tired, crabby, in no mood for 'fun' if you get me. Anyway, I bought a Fit Bit that tracks and monitors my sleep. I didn't tell him this is what i was doing.
I tracked about 2 weeks of crappy sleep in bed with him and then traveled for a work trip (own room) and then another few days of crappy sleep. It is SOOO visual on the screen. My DH is a very visual person so showing him how bad my sleep was with him compared to without him really made him realize how bad it was.

Long story short, he got this thing that repositions his tongue that has stopped his snoring by about 95%. Now it is a quite little muffled snore if he does happen to. He doesn't mind wearing it, it was like $15 and now i can sleep

[Anonymous]

Np. Our “solution” has been that DH sleeps in a room with our youngest. He can usually sleep through it with a noise machine and I think even finds it a bit reassuring so it’s what we do.

In our case, DH was snoring even when I met him although he was very fit and not fat at all. He’s put on a few pounds with kids since then but still isn’t what most people could call overweight or fat. His father is overweight though and snores badly too.

The only thing that helped us a lot was switching to a strict paleo diet. It improved all of his allergies and cut back the snoring a ton. Now it’s really more of an exception than an all night every night rule.

Maybe it wouldn’t bother me now, but I’m nervous to try it. I just don’t function on any less sleep...!

[Anonymous]

My DH is in the minority but LOVES his CPAP. Will your DH not try one? The person who snores like that is getting no deep sleep either, which is why they are able to fall back asleep so fast.

I love the CPAP too, although it is a little bit like sleeping with Darth Vader.

[Anonymous]

Sleep in a different room. I could never sleep next to someone that snores

[Anonymous]

Have him get checked for hypothyroidism and Hashimotos. When I went onto a big dose of Synthroid due to these conditions, my snoring quickly was 90% eliminated. He hasn't been a bad snorer all his life, I bet, so he needs to get back to that pre-snorer state. I noticed that the Synthroid reduced fatty/fleshy areas around my neck and throat. Just Google snoring and thyroid and you'll see that there is a well-known association.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd sleep on the couch until he did something about it. There are off the shelf things that can help. Do some googling and you'll find them. Sounds like you'd have a hard time convincing him to do a sleep study?

I did this and it worked. It wasn't even a 'scheme', I just needed SLEEP so I started sleeping in our spare bedroom. After about 2 weeks of that he made a doctor's appointment