Im always happy for ppl who can sleep with these things jammed in their ears! For me it was like listening to the roaring of my heartbeat all the time and having foreign bodies stuck in an orifice that wasnt used to them
Yeah, I don’t like having earplugs in at concerts and stuff, so I don’t think I could sleep in them. I can only imagine it would make the tinnitus seem that much louder. Besides, what about the alarm clock? Wouldn’t I sleep right through it?
My husband is feeling better today, so hopefully we will have a quieter night. 
Earplugs. Or earphones. I’m a big fan of listening to audiobooks as I fall asleep. Doesn’t drown him out, but keeps me from wanting to strangle him. (I hate snoring.)
ETA: My first experience using earplugs was when I was at a music camp about 10 years ago. There were 5 or 6 women sharing a large common bedroom. One woman snored OMG SO. LOUDLY. that I actually contemplated going outside and sleeping on the grass. But one of the other women offered me some of her spare earplugs. Helped IMMENSELY.
For me, the worry is whether or not I’ll be able to hear the alarm clock.
Same here. And considering how soundly I sleep once I do get to sleep, the answer is probably “no way.”
How do/did I deal? Nagged him until he got a sleep study, which diagnosed just enough apnea to treat with CPAP. I don’t know that it makes him feel any more rested, but it helps me, quite a lot. Prior to that: a lot of nudging to turn over.
Obviously with snoring that only occurs if he has a cold, a CPAP wouldn’t be helpful. Or earplugs. Or a pillow over the head. Either his (though that might stop the snoring a BIT too permanently…) or yours but make sure you have a way to breathe!!
I once shared a hotel room with another woman on a Scout trip. She had seen my CPAP setup and laughed about how she’d been told she snored, but had lost weight and the snoring was better.
Well, if what I went through was “better”, I hate to think what she was like before. She was worse than my father-in-law, whose snoring is so bad that antelope in Africa are spooked into running away from the lion they’re hearing. I was considering the pillow-over-face thing myself!
I’m bringing this up again because I am wondering if any of the anti-snoring things I see advertised on, say, Amazon, actually work. I am going on a trip in 2 months, sharing a room, one is a light sleeper and one is a LOUD snorer. Earplugs and listening to soothing noise on an iPod and white noise machine cut down on noise a little, but light sleeper wakes up furious several times a night. Snorer is a light sleeper, too, can’t exactly drop 30 pounds in 2 months, won’t go to a doctor about a Cpap machine, it’s very unpleasant for both.
Anything over the counter work? mouth guards, chin straps, sprays?
Oral appliances, custom-built by dentists, can help snoring in a SMALL percentage of snorers. As can CPAP machines, IF the cause of the snoring is obstructive sleep apnea.
Otherwise, useful approaches are things like sewing tennis balls into the back of a pajama top, to keep the snorer on their side or stomach, weight loss, alcohol and tobacco avoidance, and treating whatever underlying disorder is causing the snoring. If it’s due to nasal obstruction, get that fixed. Nasal sprays may help in that situation. If it’s due to sleep apnea, get that treated. Etc.
Most of the other gimmickry is just that, and unhelpful. Breath-rite strips, chinstraps, TENS units, acupuncture are not really shown to be helpful.
Both the Mrs. and I snore. I expect her to wake me up if my snoring bothers her, and she does. I roll over, problem solved.
I wake her up when her snoring awakens me, but she is invariably defensive and argumentative in the moment. “You’re snoring, hon” always gets replies from her like “No, I’m not.” “It’s not that loud”. “I don’t snore”. Or my favorite, “You snore too, and worse”. Yeah, I know. What’s her point?
Gah, I hate that. My wife can snore loudly enough for me to have to leave and sleep on the couch. If I try and approach it as a problem, I get “YOU snore too!”
Yeah, okay, maybe I do. But I don’t wake up to find you three rooms over sleeping on the living room furniture so obviously my snoring isn’t literally preventing you from sleeping all night. If I did, I’d try to recognize that as the primary issue, not a contest of who else snores or why it’s a failing on your end that you can’t sleep through it.
I clap. I know it sounds stupid, but it works for me. In the military, there were plenty of situations where I was stuck with a snorer. I would employ one loud clap of the hands and that worked most of the time for me! I don’t know why or how I came to use that idea, but it always helped.
Breathe-Right strips work wonders for me.
I posted this in a previous thread, shortly after I began using a SomnoDent appliance. I still use it, and don’t snore anymore (or so I’m told). I also lost a fairly significant amount of weight, however, which may have helped quiet things down.
Wow. I’m an impressive snorer but I don’t know that I’ve ever received applause.
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