Anti Snoring Devices

With Valentine’s Day upon us it is a good time to examine the effects of snoring on your relationship.  Studies show that snoring can have a significant impact on relationships and intimacy, sex life with your partner, and in some severe cases may even lead to divorce.  Sleep deprivation due to a partner’s snoring can cause stress on any relationship, no matter how strong your bond.  Snoring experts say some 60% of adults in the United States snore – that’s 183 million people.  Research indicates that individuals sleeping next to a snoring bed partner will lose between one and two hours of sleep each night due to the disturbance; it’s no surprise that some 80% of couples with a snorer sleep in separate bedrooms.  So what can you do this Valentine’s Day to inspire bedroom bliss for your partner?  Here are some simple suggestions:

•    Try to loose weight.  Problem snoring is much more frequent in overweight people – particularly men.  By adopting a more healthy lifestyle, you’ll not only be in better physical shape but also help relieve your partner from the disturbance of snoring.

•    Avoid alcohol before bed.  Alcohol effects your body’s control over your throat muscles when you sleep, which can trigger snoring.  It’s also a good idea to avoid tranquilizers or sedatives before bedtime as well.

•    Establish regular sleeping patterns.  Going to bed at the same time every night will help your body get into a sleeping rhythm; this in itself doesn’t cure snoring but it will help you fall asleep faster and in most cases sleep better.

•    Sleep on your side rather than your back.  Modification of your sleeping position is an easy way to try and reduce snoring.  When we sleep, our air passages must have enough room to avoid constriction; research shows that sleeping on your back increases the chance of airway blockage which results in snoring.

•    Elevate your head. You can increase the angle of your bed by raising the head of the bed or use additional pillows to support your entire upper body - don’t just raise your head because that will put more pressure on your airway and have the opposite effect of what you’re trying to accomplish.

One of the top health concerns associated with snoring is interrupted sleep for both the snorer and bed partner; people who snore chronically should discuss their condition with a physician, because it can be a symptom of sleep apnea (a reduction or cessation of breathing during sleep), a deviated septum or more serious health risks such as high blood pressure, strokes, and heart disease.

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Hi Eron,

I came across your blog today. It was nice to read of someone else with this problem, although I winced at some of your stories. They are all too familiar, and I just had to write to you to say: Hi. My name is Sue, and I’m a snore-aholic. Like your wife, my husband doesn’t get much sleep because of my snoring. It’s been an issue for the last few years, but I didn’t realize it was much of a problem until recently.

As the mother of two young girls (13 and 11), my days as a stay-at-home mom revolve around their schooling, after-school activities, and all of the other blessings of parenthood. This summer, I led their Girl Scout troop to the Upper Peninsula in Michigan for a three-day camping trip. The first night, there was a heck of a lot of thunder and lightening, and some of the girls naturally began to get scared. To calm them down, I told them that thunder was just the sound of God going bowling in heaven. These girls were old enough to realize that my explanation wasn’t scientifically true, but it did help calm them down, anyway. Well the next day we spent hiking, and that night, I was exhausted and apparently snored all through the night. It was one of my less elegant moments. The morning after, as we were eating some fruit for breakfast, one of the girls said to me, “Mrs. H, you and God must have had one heck of a bowling party last night, with all the thunder coming from your tent!” They all snickered for a good five minutes. My daughters were mortified and covered their faces. The other chaperone on the trip was obviously holding back her laughter. How embarrassing!

Like you, I’m trying to find a way to stop snoring. My husband has been bothering me for some time about it, but I thought it was just his way of teasing me. “A lady needs her beauty rest,” I would say, but now I realize just how un-ladylike my apparently loud snoring must be. I was always reluctant to try the available products to help with my problem. The chin straps look ghastly, and the nose strips make you look like a linebacker. I have seen the Brez product, which you mentioned, advertised on TV. It may be time to try that.

Now if only my daughters will allow me to attend other overnight camping trips!

Best of luck with your crusade to stop snoring.

Sue

My cover is blown! Last night my wife saw this blog’s URL listed under the “history” tab on Internet Explorer. I feared that she might be angry about my public quest to cure my private woes, but Marcy said it was sweet and hopes—for the both of us, I’m sure—that I can find some way to decrease my snoring.

Funny how it worked out: this morning, after Marcy returned from the doctor’s office for a routine check-up, she plopped down the latest issue of Woman’s Day magazine (September 1, 2009), and on page 68, in the “Health” section, it says, “GET HELP FOR A SNORING HUSBAND.” “Wives of snorers get about an hour less of sleep each night…” It then goes on to tell of a new product, “Brez,” which is apparently a tiny plastic thingamajig that you put in each nostril to help sleep without snoring. Marcy circled this small article and wrote on the side, “Thought this might help.” Later this afternoon, I’ll have to run out to the pharmacy and pick up a box.

There’s always a rush of excitement when I buy a new product like this. By now, I know not to invest a lot of faith without testing it first. It’s like meeting the new guy dating your sister. Don’t become his best buddy until the ring is on her finger. Otherwise everyone just feels let down after the break-up. It’s the same with anti-snoring products. The chin straps, the mouth guards, and the numerous boxes of nasal strips…They have all let me down. I mean, come on, how many varieties of Breathe Right strips are really necessary? Have you seen these lined up on the pharmacy shelves? It’s like you can pick one of ten ways to chafe your nose, spend a few bucks, and continue with the same problem. No thanks. Other friends of mine have said they sometimes help, but never for me.

It reminds me of a trip I took last year with my friend, Alex, to drop off his son for college. When we got to the dorm for the first time, we opened the door to meet Alex’s son’s roommate, who would be a sophomore. There he was, passed out on his bed, empty beer bottles strewn about, snoring as loud as I’ve ever heard. Nice to meet you! He sounded like a cow in labor! And it was ironic – across his nose was one of those nasal strips! Not much help, apparently. I had to laugh, although I restrained myself as much as possible, with Alex now having the misfortune of sending his son off in care of his drunken roommate.

Given this and other disappointments in the past, my hopes aren’t high for “Brez.” But if there’s something out there that I have not tried, and especially if Marcy recommends giving it a shot, I’m game. I will report back here tomorrow with comments.

“Why can’t you control yourself?” That’s the message communicated by Marcy’s eyes on mornings after a night full of my snoring. It’s the look usually reserved for our teenage son, when he breaks something in the house or coyly grins after passing gas. To Marcy, my snoring is about as cool and appreciated as Nick’s farts. “I mean, seriously,” those eyes say. “Why are you so helpless? And how does your body generate that kind of noise?”

I read somewhere that wives of men who snore get less sleep, and that couples that get more sleep on average have more sex. So, my more critical readers out there may claim that my wish to stop snoring is not entirely selfless, that by snoring less, I’ll be “getting more.” I would like to plead the fifth on that one, but this does call for a haiku:

Rumbling nighttime nose
Angry wife—kick!—sleepless now
Snore less to Get more.

Really, though, I’m just so sick of feeling horrible in the mornings (from more than Marcy’s glaring eyes). And with snoring, there isn’t any kind of juvenile pride in bigger, louder, smellier. Snoring is just plain nasty.

As a first step, last night I avoided sleeping on my back, which is when I’m usually “sawing logs” at my best. I propped a pillow against my back and slept on my side. Before too long, however, I felt the ungrateful kick of my wife: somehow, I had rolled onto my back again and woken her up. Unsuccessful on the first try, I fluffed the pillow, lay on my side, and gave it another go. Whack! After two failed attempts, and feeling sorry for my wife, I gave up and slept downstairs on the couch.

I’m not sure what to do anymore. At one point, a couple of years ago, Marcy had me see a sleep doctor. She was concerned I had a potentially serious condition called “sleep apnia,” but I cleared preliminary tests. If any of you readers have that, you should definitely see doctors, because no snoring remedy (is there one?) can help you with that, and it can be very dangerous, in fact.

For the rest of us, who have no medically dangerous condition, but who are apparently quite talented on the nasal trombone, what are we to do? Lying on my side never really works. As a deep sleeper and aficionado of sleeping on my back, the snoring inevitably starts despite my best intentions. Anti-snoring products have had mixed results at best, but what can I do to make life better for all of us? How can I snore less to get more?

Aaron Johnson

The pounding headaches I get in the morning, the cotton mouth, the feeling of being tired even though I slept 8 hours…These all lead me to continue my never-ending search for a cure to my chronic problem: snoring. And this is only the beginning. I wake my wife up almost every night with my nasal foghorn, and believe me, we’re way past the “oh, isn’t that cute” stage. Sometimes the only way I know I’m snoring is from her round-house kicks below our bed sheets late at night.

Don’t get me wrong…Marcy has been great in the past, trying to help me find ways to stop snoring: the chin straps, mouth pieces, nasal strips, and other products from an endless parade of failed “remedies.” Through this blog, I hope that some of you can offer tips for my snoring, and I plan to document my journey to find a cure. At work, one of my responsibilities is to ensure the quality of my company’s products (sports memorabilia), and so, with my crusade to stop snoring, I will evaluate various products with the same critical eye, or shall we say, “critical schnozz.” Hopefully this will be of help to others, too.

Marcy loves me, of course, but after seventeen years of marriage, nearly all of it accompanied by the rumbles of my nasal freight train, how much more can she possibly stand? My wife deserves a rest—literally—having raised our teenage son and two-year-old daughter, single-handedly at times. Two friends of ours actually slept in separate bedrooms for similar reasons, and I wonder if that contributed to their divorce. Well, anyway, I’m determined that we not fall victim to the same problem. I am on this quest for my wife, for myself, and also for our children and Teddy (yes, I have even woken up our dog from across the room!).

You would think it’s a problem easily solved: go to Walmart, buy a box of those nasal strips, slap one on, and presto! But it’s not that easy, and I’ve got the chaffing on my nose to prove it. The last time I peeled one of those bad boys off my face, I felt like Chewbacca getting a Brazilian bikini wax. I nearly screamed like a wookie!

Some people say those strips kind of work, that they come “close” to stopping the snoring. But like my favorite teacher used to say, “close” only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. There ain’t no “close” or “kind of” next to my hundred decibels of brute nostril power! There has got to be something better out there. Through your help and this blog, I hope we can find it!

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