Geeze....I meant your husband. I love my husband but sometimes I sleep in the guest room for a better nights sleep. He snores like a river barge and kicks like a kangaroo! :twisted:

And so early in the morning girl...are you trying to wake up the others? Yes, on occasion when my boyfriend is in town, we sleep together, there I've said it! And since we both snore, it doesn't create that much of a problem!

Has he been checked for sleep apnea?

I've found that a "kidney check" works wonders on the snorer. That sharp elbow in their kidney area usually wakes them up enough to get them to stop so I can get to sleep.
Oh, do I admit to doing it? Nope, I pretend I'm asleep and it was something that happened while I was dreaming. lol

I have the answer!! :-D Just whistle real sharp, and loud, he will stop snoring!! You might have to do it 3 or 4 times, but he will get tired of having his deep sleep interrupted, and turn over on his side. :lol: :lol: And It should'n wake him up, but if it does, he won't know why he wakes up. :-D :-D This works, I use it on DH sometimes, but don't tell him :roll: :roll:

Things that go bump in the night :lol:

Exactly!!! lol

Please have your husband checked by a doctor for sleep apnea. The loud snoring and kicking are symptoms. He made need a CPAP machine. Lack of deep sleep can lead to serious health problems like stroke and heart attack.

I am a CPAP user and feel so much better than I used to.

Rita

How bout one that grinds their teeth? oh joy. Actually I would take the grinding teeth its the darned cat that has dimentia, is deaf and screams all night long because he is lost so I sleep with the friggen cat on the couch most nights. I start in bed. If I get three hours there I am a little heaven. I would sleep with anyone at this point if sleep had everything to do with it. They could snore. No problemo just dont scream in my ear at 1 am 2 am.. yipes.

Pillow for the back? snoring is worse if they sleep on their back.. sides the air gets in better for some reason. I think the old delivery works pretty good a gentle tap with a sharp cold knee.. works wonders at getting someone to turn over. Chill your hand first then apply it to a belly should get that puppy on his side in no time at all.

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My DH sleeps downstairs and has for a couple of years now. He snores so badly that I resorted to the couch for months before he suggested moving. Even now, I can hear him through the vents when it's quiet, but it isn't loud enough to wake me up once I'm asleep. He's been checked for sleep apnea and the VA said that there wasn't any. What I didn't realize is that it is much more common than I thought for married couples to sleep apart. We've been married 29 years this year.

my DH kicked me out years ago...LOL I'm the snorer but he does too but won't admit it...very light sleeper. Traveling and staying in motel very interesting

We usually start out together, but we have an 80 lb. boxer that thinks the bed is his. He usually sends one of us packing before morning. He kicks and huffs and jumps around until one of us gives up and lets him have our half.

The man next to me is so loud that if I go downstairs to the couch I still hear him, and if I go further down to the basement I still hear him. The neighbors next door hear him and the only use I can think of for a pillow is over him rather than under, but is not an option right now. In two weeks he goes to a sleep studu to see if the air maks helps him (or me) a bit.

I used to sleep on the sofa a lot due to my husband's snoring. He would sleep on the sofa if he realized he was snoring before I did. We solved that ---- He has sleep apnea and is now sleeps with a breathing machine. AND ME.
When he took the test for sleep apnea he was sure he did NOT have it. I thought otherwise. They found that he would stop or nearly stop his breathing nearly every 30-45 seconds!
It was a life saver! Literally.

Ladies, I want to thank you for the morning laugh!! I was ROFLMAO!!! Unfortunately, I sleep alone and would LOVE to sleep with a man!! It's been awful cold here in Oklahoma and I needed some body heat!! lol So I guess my answer is: No, I don't sleep with men!! At least not yet...keep hope alive!! lol

DH didn't snore enough to bother me until a few years ago. It got louder. I made an appointment with a specialist immediately. No way I was going to go through that for years. He has a simple operation and went back to sleeping normal. It took exactly one month from first loud snoring to end of loud snoring.

Any loud snoring is not normal. Snorers need to go to a specialist and find the reason for the snoring. It's harmful for the snorer, their bodies are not getting the the right kind of rest it needs and that can cause many other problems like depression. Parents listen to you teens while they sleep to see if snoring is heard.
My brother snored, not too loud but annoying. The family Dr. kept saying he was fine. His snoring was getting worse. A specialist and a sleep study later, he has an oxygen machine and says he feels 100% better and he's a happier person.

Luckily, I'm a very heavy sleeper! As long as I get to bed before he does, no matter what happens during the night, I'm good to go :)

Just had to check this one! Alas, I lack a human sleeping partner, but I have a 70 pound male dog who has taken to sleeping with me! The 15 pound female has always slept with me, often under the covers. She is a short haired rat terrier, and likes the extra warmth. The male is a long haired husky who does not appreciate the extra heat, but loves the company! Occassionally the female will snore! But it doesn't last long, and I can go back to sleep easily.

I'm with ritamaew...i love my CPAP. My husband had a sleep study, because he snored SO loud...Found out that he stopped breathing hundreds of times a night. His CPAP stopped that, but then it was my turn! My Dr. put me on my CPAP a year ago, and I actually feel human again...the best part is that I don't fall asleep every time I sit down like i used to!

I'm blessed with a husband who doesn't snore -- at least not yet.

Many people seem to have the sleep apnea problem. I know several in "real" life and many of you on the board have mentioned it. Do you think this is getting worse or did our grandparents just suffer because we didn't know about it?

I think our parents and grandparents just suffered....I know my dad snored and my mom didn't do too bad in that department either :lol: :lol:

Great laugh for this morning. I am fighting with my boyfriend over this very issue. I had to put my foot down recently and tell him no sleepovers on work nights. He snores, takes over more than half the bed, and I just don't sleep well when he is there.

mine sleeps in the recliner in the living room. just as well, lately i've taken to leaving the window open about 2 inches. even on nights when it's below zero! no, i'm not having hot flashes. just get hot!
after i hurt my back, I slept in my recliner awhile too!

Mine sleeps downstairs with his breathing machine...but still snores a little...I can't sleep with the noise of the machine and with the noises he makes....So, Tink and I have the queen size bed.....

My guest room is also my quilting room...with me being a night owl sewing....I started sleeping some in the guest bed because I didnt want to wake him up. So one day he and I had a discussion about me sleeping in the other room and he and I both decided that we sleep better alone....so now I sleep only in the guest bed...guess he was just as tired of me waking him up because of snooring as I was being woke up by it....WE are now very happy sleepers...I do believe this is something you both have to agree on

Hubby and I "hot rack" it most of the time...lol! If your husband is or has been in the Navy....ask them about "hot racking it"....LOL!

My DH hardly snores and I'm a fairly heavy sleeper anyway so it doesn't bother me. He works away a few nights every week and I hardly sleep at all when he's not there! My father snores enormously - has done for years, and he and Mum sleep in separate rooms. If they go to a hotel or visiting and have to share a room, she uses ear plugs. He falls asleep in the chair sometimes too and it used to get so bad we couldn't hear the TV so one of us (usually me!) Would suddenly go 'AH HEM!!!' really loudly, then go on innocently staring at the screen. He'd rouse, do thet 'eh? what was that?' thing but in seconds he'd be snoring again! My mother can go 'COLIN! You're snoring! And he'll become lucid enough to say 'I'm not!' and within seconds, off again! I have been concerned that this could be a health danger for him but he refuses point blank to do anything about it - says it doesn't disturb or bother HIM so tough you know what to everyone else! :shock: :hunf:

Mine snores too, but I was thinking more along the line of a pillow over his face.....
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Please have him checked for sleep apnea. If they say he doesn't have it, find someone else and have him checked again. By the time my husband was finally diagnosed, after six years of the symptoms progressing, the test results came back that he was stopping breathing more than 70 times per hour. The longer it goes on, the greater the impact on his heart and brain, due to lack of oxygen. It got so bad that I wouldn't let him drive with the kids in the car because he couldn't stay awake at work, and would nod off while driving. I didn't want him driving himself even. Due to his lack of focus and the constant exhaustion and inability to stay awake, we had almost no relationship left by the time he got his CPAP maching, but within days, he was almost back to the man I fell in love with. Don't delay, get a second opinion.

In the meantime, get him a back wedge, which might help because gravity helps keep their throat open. There is also a throat spray that numbs the throat muscles and helps prevent them from collapsing, in milder cases. Good luck.

My husband and I sleep separately most nights -- he's on medication that makes him jerk around as he sleeps. I'm a really light sleeper (and have issues with insomnia), so to be suddenly jerked awake and then not able to fall asleep again is really the pits. But we always cuddle a bit before going to bed, and when we get up, and so it's all okay :)

I don't think aleep apnea was a known disorder (for adults, at least) until the 1960s, so our grandparents just suffered with it. but I don't think it was as prevalent back then, either.

One cause of sleep apnea is obesity, and obesity is getting worse, so probably more people are snoring for that reason.

High blood pressure is another cause.

I think nasal polyps can also cause snoring, though I don't know whether they are a cause of sleep apnea.

Check your "snore score" here: http://www.sleepapnea.org/resources/...norescore.html

There's no doubt that obesity is one of the causes....however, there is some question as to the high blood pressure. My husband's doctor feels that the high blood pressure was caused by the sleep apnea. And, in fact, when he got his CPAP machine his blood pressure dropped right away.

If I'm already sleeping when he comes to bed, it's usually not a problem, but I'm such a light sleeper that if he were to fall asleep before me, just his breathing wakes me up or keeps me up. He doesn't snore loud, just a little, but it does wake me... especially now that I'm having to get up to pee several times a night, I go back to bed and can't sleep :)
He doesn't grind his teeth, but he does click them, and it drives me crazy!
When he starts to snore a little, he's usually on his stomach or on his back and has his head craned all the way back. I try kicking and poking, and if that doesn't work I wake him up and tell him to turn over. Luckily, he's not grouchy about it, I think he feels bad about keeping me up... it's not like he remembers me waking him up to tell him to turn over anyway. Most of the time he'll just argue that he wasn't snoring, he wasn't even sleeping (yeah, right!) but he still turns over to his side.

Oh, good point! How nice that treating the apnea has resolved his blood pressure problem. No more pills, though I imagine a CPAP machine is more expensive and cumbersome.

But if someone does snore and have high blood pressure, that would be a reason to get checked for sleep apnea. Whichever one causes the other, you'd want to fix the condition.

Absolutely. The CPAP is covered by almost all insurances and overtime it pays for itself by helping decrease or eliminate the cost for the meds. I have a love-hate relationship with the machine. It is cumbersome, and while I am grateful that personality-wise, mentally and physically I have my husband back, I sometimes I hate that it makes snuggling up all night difficult, at best. And, then I feel guilty for being so petty. What's a girl to do?

No man, but I have a cat with a nose whistle...

lol, I spit out my drink reading that ;-)