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Do any of your husbands snore? Does it bother you? If so, how do you deal with it? Have any of you found anything that helps to stop snoring?
I have a hard time falling asleep at night and even after 8 years of marriage, it is very, very hard to fall asleep while listening to dh snore. I have laid awake in bed for hours at times trying to fall asleep, but unable to b/c of the noise of his snoring. At times, I have moved to another room or asked dh to move. Right now, I have a nursing baby in bed with me and there is nowhere else I can lay down with her, so if anyone is to move to another bed, it is dh. I could rearrange where everyone sleeps so that our almost 3yod sleeps w/ dh in our bed and I could sleep in her twin-sized bed w/ the baby...but I'd like to stay in the same bed w/ my dh. I always thought it was kinda sad that my grandparents didn't sleep together...but my grandfather snored very LOUDLY, so now I know why. 
I am also wary about using earplugs to sleep b/c I am worried that I would not hear one of my other children if they woke up and needed me at night.
For some reason, I need complete quiet and darkness in order to fall asleep. Anyone know of a way that I could train myself to fall asleep more easily, even in the presence of light and noise?
TIA...
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Does my husband snore or is there snoring in our bedroom? 
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Dawnie, My DH snores, and I know I am in for a LONG road ahead as my FIL sounds like a Diesel ALL NIGHT LONG.
My DH will wear the Breathe Right Strips on his nose, and he has found some spray in the store. He was noticing how his throat felt in the morning more than me, so he tried these on his own. We have tried a humidifier as well, and all those seem to help. Now, if he is sick or super tired, all those things don't help at all, but he does try for us.
The other thing I like to have is some "white noise" as well. My kids have some in their rooms, with the ocean waves, or you can even do a fan. It may not be complete quiet, but it's more soothing than a truck!
HTH. I know it can be so hard to feel well when it is hard to sleep!
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Dawn, Bill snores, and I've found 2 things have helped. 1. Utter exhaustion
2. If you can't beat him, join him. Now I snore sometimes too.
Sorry, neither of those are replicable in a useful way.
When it's really bad, I make sure that he is sleeping on his side and not his back. Rolling him to his side usually takes care of it. 
However, have you thought of having a sleep study done? My brother snored to the point that he was out of the bedroom and my SIL was in the bedroom with the newborn. Because she was up when he wasn't, she heard that besides snoring, he was also not breathing and then gasping for air. His sleep study showed sleep apnea which definitely effects quality of life and general health. There is a book I read--Sleep Theives--that has a quiz to see if your snoring might be tied to sleep apea. My brother had surgery which helped him immensly.
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My dh snores pretty loudly. Even the kids comment about it. You can hear him in any room of the house. He starts snoring before he is totally asleep, and we all tease him. It does make for some diffiult sleep nights. He was diagnosed with sleep apnea. He wore a c-pap until he lost a lot of weight. He was better after that. Now he has gained the weight back, and the snoring seems to be bad again.
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Yes!
After almost 22 yrs of marriage it has only gotten worse. The past year or so I have used earplugs I found at Target and also use a headset and listen to the radio until I fall asleep. That may be difficult with a little one with the cord. Sometimes if it is really late like 2 AM I ask him to go downstairs and he sleeps in the recliner in the living room. He can fall asleep anywhere but I am the one who struggles. If I happen to fall asleep first that works best. Good luck!
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I could have written your post! My dh snores so loudly and makes such an awful racket that in the past it has brought me to tears. If I didn't live with it, it would be hard for me to understand how it could be that bad, but it really and truly is that bad.
We tried the breathe right strips- no help.
Had a sleep study done- no sleep apnea, but the tech who conducted the study noted that dh slept unusually well and peacefully for the outrageous amount of noise he was making.
Twice he had procedures done to stiffen his soft palate. It was painful for him and helped, but only for awhile.
A couple of years ago he had another procedure done (somnoplasty?)- plastic rods inserted in the soft palate to permanently stiffen it and reduce the noise. That has also helped- the noise can still be unbearable if he has a cold, but otherwise it's much more tolerable.
Our last option would be a more radical surgery, but I don't want him to do that- the poor guy has already been through enough, and there is no guarantee it would help him further.
On nights that he is really loud, I keep nudging him until he leaves. Interestingly, our dd sleeps perfectly with the noise and often looks for him at night. So many nights he just decamps to her room.
I never felt comfortable sleeping with ear plugs, especially not with the kids. The somnoplasty helped the most. I feel your pain and fatigue!
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It just occurred to me that my former boss was a bad snorer himself. Being in the dental field, he found a "snoring appliance" that has done WONDERS for him and his wife. It was a little like a mouthguard, but it moved his jaw to a certain position that he would not be able to move it, and keep it to open his airway. I remember it was not cheap, but it kept them in the same room.
I was trying to find a good photo on google, and this one looked the most similar, but there seems to be quite a lot of snoring related appliances!
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A former coworker of mine used to pull her dh's eyelashes when he snored... and then try to get back to sleep first... until he caught her in the act!
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