My husband snores mainly when he drinks and/or when he is sick. He also snores sporadically for no reason. It wouldn't be so bad except his snores are LOUD! I can't help but be annoyed at being woken up in the middle of the night. I usually nudge him, then push, and if that doesn't work, i will wake him up and tell him to shift positions.
If your husband/significant other snores, what do you do? Has anything helped?
pomegranate / 3452 posts
I feel your pain. I kicked my husband (lovingly) out of the bed last month to sleep on the couch. At 9 months pregnant I just couldn't handle it any more!!
But usually I just yank his pillow or nudge him to get him to stop. Over the past 3 years I think I've gone out to sleep on the couch bc of his snoring maybe a handful of times. We tried breathe right strips and those helped a little bit. A humidifier worked even better.
eggplant / 11824 posts
Ugh, yes. Sometimes when I've been woken up 15 times by him snoring I feel like smothering him with a pillow!! Usually nudging, elbowing or gently kicking him gets him to move enough that the snores stop. If not, my remedy is to move to the guestroom or make him move to the guestroom. So far we haven't found any remedy that works 
Eta: certain medications can make snoring worse, so if your husband is on any meds, you might want to have him ask his doctor whether snoring is a side effect or not.
GOLD / wonderful pea / 17697 posts
Usually only when he's sick and/or sleeping on his back. When it happens I just nudge or poke at him and tell him he's snoring and he flips onto his side. He never remembers in the AM. Once or twice he's even made small talk with me or made exaggerated snoring noises that he has no recollection of the next day.
cantaloupe / 6923 posts
Omg yes! Drives me so nuts. I just keep shoving him awake and make him turn on his side. I think it's only a problem because I go to sleep later than him and have insomnia. Once I fall asleep it doesn't wake me.
coconut / 8305 posts
Yes! Even worse he makes mouth noises like he's eating like a caveman in his sleep! *smack smack smack*
I HATE IT!
Well usually it's not too bad but it has kept me up on more than one occasion contemplating possibly smothering him. Lol. It was the worst when I was pregnant & I had sound aversions (like food/smell aversions but in some ways worse). I almost couldn't even sleep in the same room at that time!
Ugh I feel your pain!
GOLD / cantaloupe / 6703 posts
When he's not feeling well, yes. Most of the time, no. When he does, I'll push him until he wakes a little and I'll tell him to roll over.
honeydew / 7687 posts
Yep . It's not usually loud enough to wake me its just loud enough to irritate me that he fell asleep or back to sleep so much faster than me!! I usually poke him or if its bad tell him to get up and blow his nose.
As I sit and wait to make sure baby settled himself for good both the dog and DH are snoring on the bed.ugh.
nectarine / 2994 posts
Only sometimes - usually when he's been drinking, sick or super tired. I usually kick him to make him change positions, otherwise I wake him up and tell him to shut up - I'm not usually polite if his snoring has woken me!
honeydew / 7586 posts
My husband sleeps on the couch during the week because I can't sleep through his snores. On the weekend, I usually end up moving to the couch in the middle of the night. Very rarely do we sleep all night next to each other.
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
Yep, mine has sleep apnea though, so now he has a CPAP machine, thank goodness!!!!! The machine is SO quiet!!! He was so loud before, he would wake me out of a deep sleep and I had to wear earplugs sometimes!
coconut / 8279 posts
@runsyellowlites: I'm lying in bed right now on HB because of the chomping, smacking, deep sighs. Ugh. So loud!
DS smacks his lips and sighs in his sleep, too, haha
pomelo / 5469 posts
He used to. I had to sleep in our spare room most of the time a few years ago. I don't know whether he's now stopped or I just sleep through it, as I don't hear it anymore!
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
When he is dog tired. Lately it's not too bad. Sometimes I will sleep in the guest room if it's really bad.
clementine / 959 posts
My husband snored all the time because his tonsils were way too huge. He just had them removed last week so now there is no more storing! Yay!
watermelon / 14206 posts
Only when he's sick or hasn't slept well in a while and finally gets a good night's sleep. I the case of the latter, I turn over and hope it stops, cause if he's finally sleeping, I don't wanna mess with it! If he's sick, I nudge him and tell him to get out of my ear, lol.
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
My husband will occasionally snore if he drinks or is sick, but we deal with him having entire LOUD converstaions in his sleep. It's like trying to sleep through a person's onesided conversation, it goes on forever even with me kicking, hitting, trying to wake him up. I have to physically make him get up to get a drink/go to the bathroom to "break" it. This happens when he is stressed.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
Sometimes. I'll nudge him and he'll change positions.
pomegranate / 3244 posts
Yup! But I do, too, so I can't really complain about his snoring 
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
He's not so bad these days, losing weight helped a lot. The worst are our DOGS! They both snore and it drives me crazy!!!!
pomegranate / 3272 posts
Yes! There are so many nights that he goes to the couch bc.I keep kicking him. He just started wearing those breath right strips and I think they may have saved our marriage!!!! I did not want to be one of those couples who sleep in separate rooms but I was a zombie. If it wasn't ds, it was dh waking me up!
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Yup. I just try my best to ignore it and sleep. Normally, I can, but when he drinks, oh man! It's extra heavy and it keeps me up!
grapefruit / 4862 posts
@blackbird: SAME! My DH has sleep apnea and sometimes if he's too tired and falls asleep without it on, I hit him until he wakes up and say PUT ON YOUR MASK. His snoring is even MORE annoying now because I'm not used to it anymore. I love that damn CPAP machine.
cantaloupe / 6730 posts
When he's on his back. I lightly stroke his arm and he wakes up enough to turn over but not enough that he realises that I've done anything. Mwa ah ah ah!
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