Give me your anti-snoring tips!

Separate rooms. Sorry but that’s the only solution. I’ve tried everything. I snore like an aircrafts engines winding up for take off

There are drugs that will keep you awake for months on end. Side effect is insanity. Choose what works for you.

Apparently I snored less when I lost weight.

I have since put quite a bit of the weight back on but I seem to still be under the weight/snoring threshold or I am sure it would have been mentioned 😉

An extra pillow.

Applied over the face the snoring soon stops.

Was going to say don't sleep on your back, but you are a side sleeper. Can't help TBH.

I agree agree with the weight comment. In my case I know exactly the limit. Over 91kg and I snore, under 91kg and I don't. That is the simple bit. Keeping the weight down though is not so!

Well if @duncancallum is anything to go by, don't think the mouth guard things will stop you because it didn't work!

Separate rooms! Light sleeper here with a husband who snores. It was either that or muder.

Small (~3mm) strip off the end of a roll of micropore tape holding your mouth shut.  I'm told it's a 90% reduction in my snoring.

Stock answers: lose weight, stop smoking, stop drinking.

I came down with some sort of infection at the end of 2023. Net result, it's buggered up my sinuses and I've started snoring fit to rattle windows. I've been prescribed so many drops and sprays that I've lost count. I finally got a face-to-nose appointment in like October or November 2024 with ENT, camera up the nose which a singularly unpleasant experience. But it's meant that...

Separate rooms. Sorry but that’s the only solution.

... I haven't slept in my own bed for over a year. It's miserable.

Earplugs for your wife. It's her problem after all...

Small (~3mm) strip off the end of a roll of micropore tape holding your mouth shut. I’m told it’s a 90% reduction in my snoring.

Wouldn't help me, I'm snoring through my nose.

Separate rooms. Sorry but that’s the only solution. I’ve tried everything.

I fear that's the way it's going - woke up on my own this morning as the wife had taken herself off to the spare room.

The bedroom gymnastics department isn't very lively as it is - separate rooms could kill it entirely! [insert eek face!]

I do need to lose a stone too.

Have you been checked out for obstructive sleep apnea?

I used to snore horrendously 5-6 hours a night according to an app I used to record myself.  I'm aside sleeper too. Luckily and unbelievably my wife could sleep through it all.

Long story short is I got checked for OSA, and had it bad, got a CPAP machine and there's no more snoring, or suffocating.

Have you been checked out for obstructive sleep apnea?

Yep - had the overnight widget thing on as well. All came back fine.

@golfchick....

How dare you!

I agree with the weight comments……….however, it’s my wife that’s the snorer in our house, how do you discuss that!? As I like my life (and wife), I often sleep in another room.

Weight loss works for me. My snoring is  reduced if I can stay below 80kg and is almost gone if I go below 75kg.

Good hydration helps. Not consuming alcohol as well.

I also tried a mandibular advancement device which also significantly helped. The cheapo ones are not very comfortable the more expensive ones are a bit more comfortable but still not great.

Another case of a binary snorer / non-snorer here. Trigger point is a specific weight. If I get even a tiny bit under that then no more snores.

Download SnoreLab and start making proper records of what you’ve done of an evening etc.

Over time you get trend information which might point to certain things.

I almost guarantee the result will be ‘lose weight’

Separate rooms. Sorry but that’s the only solution. I’ve tried everything.
I fear that’s the way it’s going – woke up on my own this morning as the wife had taken herself off to the spare room.

That used to happen, I now have the bed entirely to myself. [img] [/img]

Separate rooms! Light sleeper here with a husband who snores. It was either that or muder.

That's not enough for some people. Am ex girlfriend's mum snored so loudly it shook the entire house.

First time I heard it I was staying in their house and it woke me up (in another room obviously). I genuinely thought there was a problem with the building or plumbing or something and was on the point of waking up everyone.

My exes parents never married and lived separately. I'm not suggesting it was because of the snoring...but you never know.

When she stayed with us she would sleep downstairs and I couldn't sleep upstairs because of the racket.

Chloroform

Another vote for snoreplugs & err the loose some weight thingy - I'm trying I tell you, but wife is a fine cook & baker of delicious temptations.

sleep on your front.

I’m trying I tell you, but wife is a fine cook & baker of delicious temptations.

I’m trying too, but…. pies. I made a bloody lovely chicken, bacon and mushroom one last night, washed down with a couple of glasses of wine, then went to bed and rattled the windows not only with the snoring but also the enormous guffs. Seriously… they’re like slowly tearing a heavy velvet curtain. I sometimes wake myself up!

No wonder we have separate rooms. It must be like sleeping with Henry the eighth

Nasal strips.

They keep your nostrils open which means your far more likely to sleep with your mouth closed and therefore not snore.

I'm 62, 77Kg, don't drink, sleep on my side. So why do I snore? It's not every night, so when I try something (different number of pillows for example) I think I've cured it, only to start snoring again. Wife does as well. Lucky to have enough rooms to have one each.

No answer from me but I have also started snoring a lot more aggressively recently.

I did give up the vaping a couple of months ago and have put on a bit more Terry than I would like as a result. I reckon that is the culprit similar to comments above.

I listened to a 'Sliced Bread'? or similar podcast and an ENT doctor said the biggest effect comes from losing weight (if you're carrying extra).

Five metres, two doors and the inverse square law works for us. Weight loss also helps.But I'm 72 kg and have apparently always snored. Mrs TiRed has lost weight and now sleeps silently. The independent witness (son2) stated on oath that I was not the loudest!

No alcohol

Or alternatively; enough alcohol to put you both into a semi-comatose state?

Downloaded the SnoreLab App - 1st pic is from Weds night (stopped early as I was wide awake at 5am), 2nd from last night which is the first night of trying out nasal strips. Hopefully not a one-off but these combined with a bit of weight loss may do the trick. And not sure I should be proud of the 'Epic' snoring rating or not!... 🙂

Im surprised nobody has suggested the tennis ball method.

I snore however i lie in bed, front, back, side have done since i weighed 8 stone as an 18 year old (first time i shared a room long term at uni) still snore as a 90+ kilo 50+ year old, even though i've gone metric.

Another one for sleep apnea and a CPAP... So i don't snore so much now.

My bro and BiL spent a lot on contraptions that go in your mouth and push your jaw out enough to stop you snoring. I tried a £30 snoreze and it works.

Well - from 1hr 47m of Epic snoring to 9m of Epic snoring just with the application of a nasal strip! Have ordered one of those sinus rinse kits too to see if that helps as well. Donkeys years ago when I saw ENT about my loss of hearing the consultant said one of my sinuses was very narrow so I may explore the operation that I dismissed at the time.