I have no suggestions, only sympathy. My roommate snores, and on the occasions we’ve travelled and shared a bed, nothing worked well enough that I would consider it a long-term solution.
One night in Vegas, to shut him up I shifted around heavily, coughed loudly, poked him, noisily shut the bathroom door and flushed the toilet, elbowed him, yanked the pillow out from under his head, hit him repeatedly with the pillow… and got no relief. I would have slept better on a casino floor.
mr skittles is terrible as well! I also take sleep meds to help me sleep and he can even wake me from them! It is completely ridiculous and at times he is lucky I don’t just bash him in the head!
They’ve helped me, but they are not a cure-all. If I’ve had a few drinks, or am overly bothered by pollen, I still snore up a storm. Mrs. Butler beats me in my sleep regularly.
I do have an appointment next month with an ENT Dr., as I’ve suspected for years that it’s a problem with my nose. One of my nostrils is significantly smaller than the other, and restricts airflow quite well.
This will not be popular and I was pissed at first when he told me he does it, but my husband plugs my nose for a few seconds until it forces me to take a breath through my mouth and reset things. He said it works wonders and sometimes stops me for the entire night. I never even wake up when he does it.
Place a pillow over his face. If you get a really good seal, you won’t be able to hear the snoring at all.
Whazzat? “rules prohibit advocating murder”? Well dang!
But, more seriously - the tennis ball in the back of the shirt might help. Try sticking it in a sock and safety-pinning that to a shirt if you want to give it a try without going to the bother of actually sewing anything. Or, well, a bra, work backwards, with the tennis ball in one of the cups. Got that suggestion from some newspaper column and it could be effective but heaven help you if, say, the smoke detector goes off in the middle of the night and a fast evacuation is required! :eek:
My FIL snores like a freight train. As in, really scary to listen to, you can hear him at the other end of the house. Insists the doctor isn’t worried about it. He’s the size of a Subaru with many of the expected health problems as a result but nope, snoring isn’t a problem at all. He could use the surgery or CPAP, in my non-medical opinion. And he’s very hard-of-hearing these days - so he doesn’t even wake himself up any more :mad:
Zsofia, I don’t think that will work if he only snores when he’s on his back. My husband only snores when he’s breathing through his mouth, which is only when he is lying on his back (assuming he doesn’t have cold or something.) It’s because his mouth tends to fall open in that position. I snore myself when I’m trying to sleep sitting up in a car or plane.
Go ahead and do it if you just want a little fun/revenge, though.
My girlfriend has been noticing my snoring comes and goes so we’ve been trying to identify the key factors. (My ex used to snore worse than I did, and there was no doubt about the sleeping on her back factor there.)
Drinking makes it worse. Most nights I’ve been able to keep it at bay by being very careful to stay in an “on my side” position as I go to sleep. But a couple of months ago her daughter borrowed the soft pillow from my side of the bed and all I had left was the firm bolster so I used it. Magically, as long as my head is jacked up on the bolster, all is well (apparently, I have no idea). You might experiment with higher, firmer pillows.
Well, last night he crawled in at 2 and immediately fell asleep (after gifting me with his cold-ass feet first, of course) and the roaring commenced. I tried the earplugs - I guess they help, but you can hear the snoring through them and I just hate the way they press against the inside of my ear in all directions. I mean, urgh!
So I also tried the nose pinching thing. It took a surprisingly long amount of time to get his mouth to open and take in some air! He woke up maybe a minute later all freaked out and scared:
“Did you do something to me?!”
“Uh, maybe?”
“I woke up feeling like I was gonna die! Like there was this awful feeling of dread. It was so scary!”
“Uh, maybe you had a bad dream?”
“You did something, didn’t you?”
“The SDMB told me to. It isn’t my fault.”
He was so scared and whimpery. Who’s the monster now, huh?
When I shared a room with my snoring sister, I used to just loudly tell her, “Erin, be quiet!”. Surprisingly, it worked much of the time. I think using her name helped penetrate her unconsciousness, and the imperative was very effective. Asking her not to snore definitely never worked. This probably won’t help, but I thought I’d share.
You have to record the snoring and play it back for him.
I knew I snored. I had no idea just how loud it was. Once my MIL mistook my snoreing for a tractor trailer parked and ideling on the street.
I use a CPAP machine. It’s the only thing that has worked for me. Had to go to the doctor, do a sleep study which ment spending the night twice. Insurance covered it adn the first night I did something I hadn’t done in years. I had a dream. But, I wish I got the surgery. I love the machine, and I sleep much better, but I can’t use this for the rest of my life.
Marcie and I have been married nearly eleven years now and I doubt we’ve spent two weeks total sleeping in the same bed or even in the same room. My snoring is in a class of its own; I often wake myself. Plus, I’m a very restless sleeper; I toss and turn almost nonstop. I can’t sleep without cover over my feet and Marcie’s feet demand to be free. How we managed to get through the courtship and marry is beyond me. Love conquers all, I guess.
Marcie bought a pair of noise suppressing ear muffs; I don’t know what else to call them—they are the things you see the ground crew wearing around airplanes. According to her, they block out the snoring but of course they don’t do anything for the tossing and turning. She uses them when we’re vacationing but that’s it. They are hard plastic things and they look uncomfortable as hell but Marcie manages to sleep in them—the OP might want to check them out.
I sleep alone, but I’d often wake myself up by my my own snoring. My SO also had a big snoring proplem, but since she got a C-PAP she says she’s sleeping a lot better and not snoring. (We don’t sleep together anymore.)
My snoring has almost disappeared since I quit smoking. I think the crap in my lungs and throat caused the snoring problem.
Just another reason to consider quitting cigaretts.
Who’s the monster now, huh?