Help getting a better night of rest

[cmills56]

The sun slowly sets over the horizon as yet another day comes to a glorious end. I put on the clothing I typically wear to bed every night. My wife and I head up the stairs and crawl under the warmth and the comfort of the blankets. I kiss my wife goodnight, turn off the light, and I roll over onto my side as I always do. Then the real fun of the night begins.

My snoring keeps my wife tossing most of the night, and I often find myself waking up because it gets so loud at times. It interferes with my ability to get a good night of rest, and it makes a victim of my wife. I decided it was finally time to do something about my snoring, so I headed off to learn what I could about the problem.

I started with Google as so many of us often do. I found a number of websites that were fantastic in helping me to understand the problem of snoring. I eventually found this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoring on Wikipedia. It tells us that snoring is the vibration of respiratory structures and the resulting sound. I wasn't exactly blown away by this because my amazing skills of deduction already discovered this on my own. The causes of snoring weren't much more informative or useful.

I continued my hunt for solutions to snoring. I found a variety of websites and products that ranged from online books to harnesses that go around the head and face. I couldn't believe everything available for the problem of snoring. It leaves me a bit clueless about what direction to head in order to find a reasonable and affordable solution. I found this page http://www.snore.net/ that is obviously about the topic with the title. Has anyone used any of the products or recommendations on this website?

I am at a loss as to what I should use to help end my snoring problem. I don't want to spend money on something that is a waste of that money because it fails to work properly. I have found nose strips, pills, head harnesses, and a number of other options. It makes me wonder which direction I should head in search of an effective solution.

Do any of you have any advice for helping with the problem at all? I am not exactly interested in something that makes sleeping even more uncomfortable, yet I have to find a solution to my snoring somehow. I have considered pills, but I don't want to invest in anything until I have done my homework and feel confident about what I am going to purchase.

[andy88488]

All I can tell you is that I was in the same situation. Minus the wife, but the women I dated were subjected to horrific snoring. My snoring could literally rattle glass display cases one floor down from my bedroom. I went to a doctor to see about possibly getting surgery for snoring. He said that it was a possibilty, but first he would have to test me for sleep apnea. Well, lo and behold, I was tested and diagnosed with Sleep Apnea.

I have been on a CPAP machine for about six years. I had no problem adapting to it. The first machine, which was a CPAP (one continuous pressure), reduced but did not eliminate my snoring. A few years ago, I switched to an APAP (automatically adjusts the pressure), and that has pretty much eliminated my snoring. I do not really feel better rested, but I am confident that I am improving my health by eliminating my apneas. And I have noticed that I have pretty much stopped getting up to go to the bathroom, which is a sign that I am sleeping more deeply, even if I don't feel more rested.

Unfortunately, I have no insight about other Snoring remedies. Given how many things purport to eliminate snoring, I'm not sure that any of them work.

[Pugsy]

Your previous posts lead me to think you are a cpap user already? Is this true?
If so, then the snoring is an indication of sub optimal therapy and you need to work on optimizing your therapy (usually means a need for more pressure).
So evaluation of your therapy is in order.

If you aren't using a cpap machine then you need to be evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea.
While not all people who snore have OSA...it need to be ruled out before shopping for bandaids to help with snoring alone.
If someone has OSA..fix the OSA first and the snores won't be a problem.

If someone is snoring and it has been proven no OSA...then it's a crap shoot with any of those anti snoring bandaids.