Any fellow snorers out there. Have snored for years and long before I started taking snuff. Thought giving up cigarettes would help (and it seemed to for a while). I am slightly overweight but I guess that’s contentment for you! I like a few drinks a couple of times a week and this makes it worse but I snore every night regardless. Have tried loads of over the counter treatments but none work. Now considering medical help but guess my snuff usage may be considered a factor (or at least the doctor will probably tell me it is as I doubt they have much experience of snuff users). Have tried snuffing menthol snuffs in the late evening to ensure my nose is nice and clear but it doesn’t seem to be making any difference.
I’m told I snore, I think mostly after I became a regular smoker, but haven’t discussed it with a doc really…
Actually a lot of people snore. I didn’t know I was a snoring person until I got married. Weight can of course affect this and is especially true if you sleep on your back. In my household we wear foam latex ear plugs and everyone gets to sleep just how they like. Problem solved. The best other solution I’ve seen was to sew a tennis ball to the back of your pajama tops, that way when you roll over on your back, you wake up and sort yourself out.
a tennis ball??? That would drive me insane, I can’t even tolerate tags in shirts.
@Clootie if none of the over the counter stuff is working a CPAP machine may be in your future.
Snuff has nothing to do with snoring. I love to snore. I like when my chihuahua snores too. My wife hits me when she gets fed up and then I roll over on to my side. Have you tried the mouth piece that sets your lower jaw further out? I would be interested in trying that out for my wife’s sake.
I have full blown sleep apnea. Needless to say. My cpap machine mask has black specks all over it.
I have tried the mouth piece and it was both uncomfortable and didn’t work for me. I have a ring I wear at night that is supposed to help but doesnt. Thorgrimnr you may have something re sleeping on my back as my wife has told me that I default to that position. Bought my wife earplugs bu she refuses to wear them so wiill have a look at a cpap machine, thanks guys.
@Clootie this seems very reasonable as part of an explanation for why people snore. So maybe the tennis ball sewn into the shirt will help you sleep on your side or front.
http://www.sleeppassport.com/what-causes-snoring.html
So what causes snoring vibrations of these soft tissues?
Snoring occurs when the upper airway passage at the back of the mouth becomes somewhat restricted. This happens because when you lie down to sleep, the muscle tone in the back of the throat…including the tongue…begins to loosen up.
As muscles relax, the tongue will ease itself to the back of the throat, causing restricted airflow, and hence, snoring vibrations as a person breathes in and out.
Snoring tends to be worse for people who sleep on their backs. However, in severe snoring, snoring occurs in any sleeping positions.
I never had a problem snoring unless I was sick until I started my new regimen. It apparently relaxes things so heavily that it makes me snore and do the whole apnea thing for about the first 5 hours I’m asleep.
I snored like a chainsaw until I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and started using a CPAP.
I stayed up all night and didn’t snore once. I think people lie about my snoring.If it is so loud how come I can’t hear it?
I don’t care if I die in my sleep from sleep apnea ! actually I would never know.
as with lots of diseases it is not the being dead part that sucks it’s the part leading up to that. Things like unproductive sleep that sucks.