Help! My partner snores! 😭
Does anyone out there have any great tried and tested solutions to stop him snoring?
He's very fit and healthy, it's definitely not an overweight thing. He can't sleep on his back without sounding like a freight train, and it's only sometimes better when I elbow him and he rolls on his side.
Don't even get me started on when he's been drinking though! No matter which position he sleeps in he snores away and nothing can wake him then!
I'm desperate for a good night's sleep! He doesn't care that he snores and keeps me up because in his eyes, “well I can't help it so it's not my fault.”
Surely there's something he can do? I can't keep sleeping on the couch, my back is killing me! 😭
Partner's snoring!
Partner's snoring!
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He needs a sleep study, it’s probably sleep apnoea
He needs a sleep study, it’s probably sleep apnoea
There is something he can do! Make him go see his GP! There will be a reason for the snoring. If he refuses to get checked out, make him sleep on the lounge. Your sleep is just as important as his. And his won’t be very restful if the snoring is that bad.
Agree with the comments above. A GP appointment specifically with a view to treat this is required. GP may have simple suggestions initially. He may refer to a sleep study. He may refer elsewhere if it's potentially structural? Being fit and a healthy weight doesn't rule out Sleep Apnoea but it does reduce the likelihood of it... particularly if he wakes refreshed and has no fatigue issues.
My dad snored terribly for years due to full blockage of 1 nostril from a broken nose playing footy as a teen. Plastic surgery to rebreak and open the nostril controlled it. Years later snoring got bad again and he needed laser surgery on his soft palate to tighten it. 15 years after that it returned but with excessive fatigue and he couldn't function in his professional job properly. At that point he had developed sleep Apnoea. He didn't have it before then.
Alcohol worsens snoring as everything relaxes more than usual so position of the jaw/tone in muscles is more similar to people who are overweight. Maybe see if there is a certain number of drinks it gets worse after if he can't stop drinking and this is a frequent factor.
My now 13 year old son was a shocking snorer when he was quite young. He had an appointment with ENT about his ears, but also happened to have a severe case of tonsillitis at the time. The doctor took a look at his throat and said his tonsils had to come out. Once his tonsils and adenoids were removed when he was nearly 5, he pretty much stopped snoring and he stopped aspirating as badly as he had been previously when eating and drinking orally (had been tube fed from birth due to aspiration).
Just as a side note, I wouldn’t normally take my son to a specialist appointment when he’s sick but we’d had too many ENT appointments cancelled by the hospital over the previous 12 months. He only had good hearing in one ear and had previously had grommets inserted to maintain the hearing in that ear. Plus I’d had him in emergency earlier in the week because his temp was up and he wasn’t keeping down Panadol or nurofen as his vomiting was worse than normal. The doctor refused to give him antibiotics because myself and my older son also had similar symptoms, despite a history of aspiration that meant he was most likely brewing a chest infection. When he was no better a couple days later I took him to a GP who gave him antibiotics but they weren’t strong enough to do much. That ENT appointment got him admitted to hospital where he ended up on oxygen and IV antibiotics for a week. It also got him on the waiting list to have his tonsils out, despite it being his first bout of tonsillitis.