How do you manage your partner / spouse who has a habit of snoring making loud noise?

admin — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:04:40 +0000

Question by Daniela: How do you manage your partner / spouse who has a habit of snoring making loud noise?
Have you found any effective solution ? What do you think is a reason for his/her snoring ? Physical , psychological or both ? or something else ? Are you able to sleep well on background of such snoring ?

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Answer by Allyson K
Often snoring can be alleviated by losing weight, exercising more, quitting smoking or cutting back on drinking. My boyfriend has sleep apnea and, despite my requests, has refused to do anything about it (long term snoring and sleep apnea have been linked to heart attack and stroke). It’s gotten to the point where I find it more difficult to sleep without him snoring next to me (we’ve been living together for 2 years), although I have found when it’s really bad that if I put pressure on one spot just next to his sternum about 2/3 down his ribcage, he’ll stop for a few minutes and be quieter when it starts up again, but that may just be an anomaly.

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I Snore, My Partner Hates it and I Feel Like Crap Each Morning

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:24:22 +0000

Are you tired of having to drag yourself out of bed each morning feeling tired, grumpy and like you could do with another hour or two of shut eye? Then to make matters worse, your sleeping partner gives you that greasy over breakfast because you have snored all night, and then the day is just not looking good. Not a great start.

Well you are not alone, because snoring is a worldwide health issue that affects more than half of all adults and their sleeping partners.

So maybe you do need some help with snoring problems after all! And luckily snoring can now be successfully treated, but unfortunately there’s no such thing as a wonder cure, so stop looking for one right now. In fact if you do ever read about one, put it in the snake oil category along with magic potions to re-grow hair on a bald head.

Instead, whether you snore or not is very much influenced by your daily food and drink choices and the lifestyle that you lead. So the first-line treatment to stop all common snoring should always be to initially monitor and control both your daily food and drink intake and to assess the lifestyle choices that you have made.

For instance, it’s common knowledge that milk can cause upper respiratory tract congestion, which then may exacerbate snoring. But consuming certain specific carbohydrates groups after 3pm, such as potatoes and dried fruit, can also influence whether you snore of not.

The same applies with environmental influences. Before you consider any stop snoring treatment, you need to first assess your sleeping position, the quality of the air that you breathe and even in what mental state you hit the sack in, because these can all cause you to snore.

And this is applicable even more if you suffer from the potentially life threatening snoring complication known as Obstructive Sleep Apnea. It’s most unlikely that dietary and lifestyle changes will cure O.S.A., but they certainly have the power to overcome some of the contributing factors that may be causing or worsening your Sleep Apnea.

So if you feel that you need help with snoring, look at your diet and lifestyle first before you waste time and money on any stop snoring treatments.

Dr Rick Donald is the author of Essential Stop Snoring Secrets. To find out more information about his book, visit http://www.stopmysnoringnow.com/stopsnoring.html

Dr Rick Donald is an Australian based Doctor with a specialty in Clinical Nutrition.

For the past 15 years, Dr Rick has been successfully practicing a unique amalgam of Western and Eastern medicine in his Melbourne clinic.

He is an Australian Government registered Doctor of Chinese Medicine (Reg. A/0120), Clinical Nutritionist, Medical Herbalist and Naturopath.

As part of continuing studies, Dr Rick spent considerable time in 1999 studying and working in the public hospital system in Nanning, China.

Whilst in China, he studied and consulted in two separate major hospitals, along with being seconded to help treat members of the Chinese Olympic team.

Dr Rick is an established author, with seven books and countless articles to his credit. His views on nutritional medicine are well respected and Dr Rick is regularly quoted by the media in Australia.

An expanded biography of Dr Rick Donald is available by referring to the link http://www.stopmysnoringnow.com/aboutus.html

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I Snore, My Partner Hates it and I Feel Like Crap Each Morning