A decidedly different post than this past Friday’s.

oh boy.. snoring so does suck..

my partner snores and so does my lovely black labrador..

so in bed.. its myself next to him.. and the dog lays on the floor beside my bed..

joy for all..

oh and if i am extremly lucky one of the beloved cats jumps up on my chest and starts purring ever so loudly..

not fun i tell you..

the very joys of snoring.. NOT!!!!

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My snorer is out of town tonight. . . but that leaves me cleaning up my sleepwalkers little ‘accident’ she just had. I really want to be in bed now, but I’m glad I caught your post from twitter! Too funny.

Loved your post. You can make any situation funny, that’s a talent.

I used to snore a lot. Very loud. Gaby could barely sleep. When she wasn’t being disturbed by the combined sound of a tuba, a grunting hippo and a chainsaw trying to cut through a sequoia, she would just count the seconds since my last breath. And hold hers as well, hoping that I would breath again soon. And it would happen, about a minute later. It was hell, let me tell you. I would be tired all day, like I hadn’t slept at all. Well, that was exactly the case.

Then a fine doctor diagnosed me with obstructive sleep apnea. And they couldn’t believe I was still alive, so bad it was. Now I have a CPAP device, and I carry it everywhere (it’s here with me at the hotel). Now I sleep. Like a baby. I have vivid dreams, in colour and everything. I don’t snore anymore, of course.

I sleep well. And so does Gaby. And the whole neighbourhood.

Sorry, Lotus. I meant this to be a comment, not a “guest writer’s post”. Evidently, I lack power of synthesis…

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Oh dear….not good. I can SO relate to you on the “not being able to switch my mind off in order to fall asleep” issue. :/

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My husband alway wants to know where these little bruises cfrom on his sides when he gets up in the morning. I say “That’s from where I jabbed you with my pointy finger repeatedly for fifteen minutes telling you to SHUT THE HELL UP!”

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Nathan snores. The good thing? He isn’t home most nights. The bad thing? Means that I never get a chance to get used to it.

Some days he wakes up with bruised ribs from where I elbow him all night.

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ouch! I’m the snorer here I’m afraid – It’s sooo embarrassing when J turns round tomorrow saying he’s tired cause he couldn’t sleep thru my snoring… I just have no idea how to stop it! *sigh*

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And so it goes…

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*laugh* sorry, don’t mean to laugh at your agony, but you made it sound so comical.

I made sure that my boyfriend doesn’t snores, before I qualify him to become my husband. It can be disastrous to the delicate sleep we, woman, often needed!

so Allan never snores! Lucky me!

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once again our lives are so similar.

me? I get ANGRY IRRITATED when I say nicely:

can you roll over (even when I know it doesnt help and can oft bring the sound CLOSER to me should he roll my way–but I digress)?

and he doesnt.
and I know he heard me.
and in the morning he pleads he was sleeping.

why doth that anger me so?

M.

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my bestest friend swears by this snoring remedy..

Everytime her partner starts snoring.. she pulls his pubes..

wakes him up every time…

hehehehehehe cheers kim xxxx

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My hubby snores, too. I finally got used to it . . . mainly by forcing him to roll onto his side every time I heard it. Though yes, hubby actually can still snore while on his side.

And as soon as I got used to it, hubby went to Iraq . . . so I’m sureI’ll have to get used to it again when he comes back. I also find adding white noise helps . . . like putting a fan in there can keep you rom obsessively hearing the snoring.

*(&#$ snoring.

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I feel fortunate that my husband does not snore. HOWEVER, his arms are always flailing all over the place so I get hit quite a bit.

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I would sympathize…but…well…I’m the one with the snore of death in this house. 30 years of allergies does that to a nose.

But I’m the one that ends up on the couch…not him. *lol*

So sorry you were ripped from sleep!! I know how hard it is to quiet those demon thoughts in your mind…and to finall succeed and be snatched back stinks!! Hope you found sleep last night!!

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My hubby snores and has for years! He didn’t when we first began dating though! Luckily, he only does it if his sinuses are messed up. So, we don’t have trouble MOST of the time.

The first few times, I wouldn’t wake him up….2-3 hours later, I was crying out of frustration. We’ve done the Breathe Right, we’ve done the throat sprays and nothing will stop it if he is having sinus issues. I even used earplugs every night and sleep with a fan going to drown him out. Now that Emma is here, I can’t do the earplugs thing.

So, if he is snoring too bad. He goes to the guestroom. If he has a sinus infection, he might sleep in the guestroom 2 weeks! I don’t not like having in him our marital bed, but we both get sleep and we are much happier.

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Yup, that noise next to me is how my hubby ended up with a sleep study and possibly surgery this summer, because after 12 years, you become homicidal. Or sleep deprived, I can’t figure out which

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The snoring here is from me, but when I wake up? My mind turns on and then it’s all over.

I have long drawn out conversations with myself at 3 a.m.

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Oh how I can relate!

But thankfully my DH now has a CPAP machine.

He had snored for years until finally he went to get it checked out after I had to wake him several nights in a row because I heard him stop breathing several times while I was nursing DD2. Ended up (after his testing) that he stopped breathing once every 30 seconds. That’s bad.

It’s worth getting checked out…You both will sleep better!

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Is this my wife’s secret blog?

I have been wearing ear plugs to bed for the past 3 years. Good luck!

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Ick…that does suck! You should invest in some great ear plugs…and peppermint oil (which is good for colds)…but when you put a couple of drops on HIS tongue…it’ll clear all of that. Or, it did with hubby for a night. I am often tapping hubby on the shoulder to tell him to roll over. Took a couple night’s worth of practice, but now he knows that if he doesn’t roll over, I’ll push him off the bed with my feet. Another thought for ya. Haha.

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I would kill my husband for snoring but the life insurance isn’t good enough!

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Speaking as one who is as guilty of Spousal Sleepus Interruptus as anyone is, all I can say is … it doesn’t wake ME up. Which is amazing, given the complaints I receive, from people other than Annie, I might add. Like the people in the next hotel room. All the little Cub Scouts on the last camping trip I was invited on. (They were VICIOUS in their criticism). My sons. I have found that sleeping with two pillows helps – it elevates my head. And keeps me alive.

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I’m am your husband in my relationship. Hello, my name is Mishelle and I snore like a frigging freight train.

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I been there for 25 years – stairs and all. What sucks worst is in the AM when they find you sleeping (FINALLY) on the sofa and they sweetly say, “Honey? Is something wrong? I wasn’t keeping you awake, was I? I made your favorite coffee…” and you wanna tear the larnyx right outta his throat…then you smell the coffee…uummm.

PS none of the OTC snore stoppers really works.

M.E.

three words: Breathe right strips!

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Oh. Thank. God! I’m not alone! Not that this makes YOU feel any better, but I’ve been sleeping on our couch for years! Years! Since Dawson was born, 3 1/2 years ago, my husband’s snoring bothers me more and more and more. I start out going to bed with him and leave for the couch at midnight. And that lovable Jack ASS says it’s not that bad, that I should ignore it, wear ear plugs or DEAL with it. Fuckin’ A. That ain’t happening. I told him he’s buying me my own bed for Christmas this year. Sorry that you live with a lumberjack snoring mad man, too. I feel your pain. I do!

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I can relate too, unfortunately. I have been married 32 years and I have never mentioned it to him. He snores horribly sometimes and less others but always snores. It doesn’t help to wake him up because then we’re both awake and he goes back to sleep in a second flat. How do I know? ‘Cause the snoring begins again! Recently I discovered that I too have been snoring. I’ve woken myself up and been all alone and have heard snoring. God! That makes me very unhappy. I have tried Breathe Right strips on me but they’re really hard to get them to stay on right and I scrub my skin really well before I put them on. But then they’re extremely painful to remove. So I feel like I am removing skin and have a red patch on nose.

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Oh Honey. I totally feel your pain. Can you keep a secret? My hubs and I don’t sleep in the same bed… it’s just too hard for me to slumber next to a runaway freight train.

Hydes, understandably

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I also sleep with a freight train and now my DIL is complaining about our son………should I worry that we’ll all be in prison together???

My hubby snores too, the rule in our house is he can’t go to sleep until I’m asleep. If he falls asleep first, I make him wake up. If I can sleep first, we’re good, but if he goes first and starts snoring, I never get to sleep and move to the couch. Then he acts all hurt when he wakes up in the middle of the night without me “Don’t you want to sleep with me?” I’m all “YES I DO BUT I CAN’T!!!”

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My husband is a snorer. It’s really bad when we’re in the apartment because it can and has kept the kids awake. Heck, I’ve done the trek to the couch as well, and have had to get back up, shut the bedroom door, and turn the TV on just to drown out the chainsaw.

*hugs*

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Snoring is a special part of marriage. I tend to punch my husband – lovingly – in the arm when he starts.

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My husband snores, my son snores, my daughter snores and all three dogs snore! All you hear at night in my house is the sounds of sleep. Sounds of sleep might not be quiet, but it means I will be left in peace to my thoughts, when I can hear my own thoughts over the snoring.

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Ack! That sucks. But no, you aren’t psycho

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OMG my mom snores like that and I so love her but when I have to deal with it during the night I am always silently making these little plans in my head to be totally pissed at her the next day.How can someone snore so loud and yet sleep so good.So unfair!

Ah! My husband snores as well, but sometimes it changes to moaning, which is so much worse than snoring! LOL @ him echoing!!!

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Haha! I did the exact same thing last night. Damn those snorers and their evil wall and floor penetrating snore sounds.

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Due to the same problem, I purchased multiple pairs of the squishy (not sure that’s the technical term) earplugs. They mold to the inside of your ear and fit PERFECTLY. I have never slept better. It also cuts down on the “4 a.m. angst” as I like to call it, when all you do is lay there and think of everything that is wrong with your life and how your going to be broke and homeless in no time, thing? Yeah. That doesn’t happen b/c you sleep so soundly you never wake up to even get that motor running!

My kids don’t like me wearing those though – they say if anyone breaks in to steal them, they’ll be long gone before I even know what’s going on………….hmmmm, pro or con?!

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Earplugs, girlfriend. Go forth to CVS (or Walgreens, whatever). Purchase the fishbowl-sized container of the highest rating foam earplugs you can find. Plug the baby monitor in over at John’s side of the bed, and crank that bitch up. Tell him to kick you if the baby cries. Fill your ears with the lovely sound of silence and slumber…

Just a note – my ex-fiance (pre hubby), snored worse than anything I could possibly imagine. I used both foam and silicone earplugs at the same time – that’s the only thing that worked…

I just noticed that at least one other person commenting before me mentions earplugs… so… either those, or….

Actually I just remembered something. Breathe Right Nasal strips and nasal spray!!!!!!!!!! Those worked!

And one more note… having a guest bed is a total plus if your hubby starts complaining about the stupid nose strips hurting his precious nose, and the earplugs are starting to give you a headache. I sleep so well in my very own bed….yumm.

I spent YEARS trying to get used my my husband’s snoring. I felt like such a bad wife, because I’d end up on the couch most nights, especially when I was pregnant. My dad said that when he was in the army, lots of the other guys snored, and he got used to it, so why couldn’t I?

Now? I sleep on the couch every.single.night. Yep, I surrendered to the very human desire to get a good night’s sleep.

Sorry, Dad.

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ear plugs.
That’s all I’ve got to say.

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I have the same problem/thoughts/feelings some nights.
I have to remind myself first and foremost that I LOVE HIM, he is the father of my child, the grandfather to my grandbabies a wonderful provider and that he is not doing it on purpose to annoy me.

Oh and that awww…he loves me…

But that still doesn’t keep that little thought in the back of my mind away of pillows on the face, a whack in the head or separate bedrooms.

I was reading on a board just the other day that a woman pinches her husbands nose shut until he gasps and then tells him to ROLL OVER!!

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I’ve been there…and been tempted to do that. As it is, my husband gets shoved and poked a lot during the night. When I just can’t take it anymore, or after I’ve fallen asleep and one of his ‘snorts’ wakes me up thinking there is someone breaking into the house, I’ll shove him really hard. He’ll usually grunt and move enough to put the snoring on hold for a few minutes..and I feel sooo much better.

(Btw, awesome descriptive writing in this )

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sorry about the snoring!
when my husband starts i just kick him in the shins and that pretty much shuts him up.

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I hate when that happens!

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This isn’t related to this post but I figured it was an easy way to “get ahold” of you. I know you’ve been doing your part environmentally and you’ve prompted me to make some changes to be “greener”, too. I just found this site http://www.onebagatatime.com where you can get some really environmentally friendly reusable shopping bags. The flash thinggy at the beginning is really neat. Anyhow, just wanted to share.

Good luck with the snoring. My DH is terrible about it, too. The worst is when he snores when laying on his side…can’t even have him roll over to stop it. Also we live in a 1000 sq foot mobile home…even the couch isn’t far enough for me, either!

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reading this post and all the comments I wonder? Is there one hubby alive and NOT snoring??? OMG, well at least it’s a comforting thought to know that I’m not alone in this! My hubby will be back tomorrow night, and then the snoring story continues …

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um. in my house… it’s not the hubby.

it’s me.

*hanging my head in shame*

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My husband has a cold right now, so this is every night for us. Some nights, he knows he’s stuffed up and stays on the couch to sleep, letting me have the bed. Other nights, I can’t fall asleep and go to the couch myself.

Breathe right strips, maybe?

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i can hear my husband snore through the walls, down the stairs, and standing right next to the running refrigerator.

nose strips maybe?

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I use a white noise maker from Brookstone, and it does the trick. Now I can’t sleep without it. Jon doesn’t snore all the time, but when he does I’m ready for it.

This sounds so very familiar. It’s only been bad enough for me to actually leave the bed 2 or 3 times, but every single time, My husband follows me down to ask why I left the bed. LOL!

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Yeah. I’ll trade you for what’s behind door # 1. Snoring sucks. Big hairy monkey balls…

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My dad was a crazy loud snorer. My mom always insisted on going to SLEEP before he came to bed. It worked – they are still married – 38 years later. And he still goes to bed after her. I slept way at the other end of the hall and he would wake ME up with his snoring.

I made sure to get a hubby that didn’t snore. Sometimes he does, but not often.

Other times – Xanex and wine – both good solutions.

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I’m the snorer here, so I’m no help. But thanks for warning me to watch out when I’m not the one making breakfast. LOL

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Matt used to snore, but then I got a job working 3rd shift at Target and now he snores, but I’m gone 5 nights a week so it’s not my problem as often. Working 3rd shift also makes for excellent birth control, for those of us who have previously been on the “hoping for the best” method. Although, you may find yourself in fits of rage cause you’re not getting any…

Hilarious post as always Lotus. You are a gem.

Wow. I feel your pain mama. I have been roused from a sound sleep by my husband cranking his motorcycle on the carport only to discover…him in bed next to me, sawing away. Good thing I’ve got bony elbows! Wolvertween cuts some powerful-loud zzz’s too!

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Oh girl, I know how you feel!! It sucks!!

I’m right there with you! I sent my husband for a sleep study. He now wears a machine that keeps me awake all night. I just can’t win. Good luck, though. LoL

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I’m right there with you! I sent my husband for a sleep study. He now wears a machine that keeps me awake all night. I just can’t win. Good luck, though.

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Apparantly, I’m an idiot. Sorry about the duplicate comment.

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You have my complete empathy and sympathy. I, too, live with a snorer. I have successfully gotten him to the point where he’ll roll over on command, and sometimes even fetch a stick and bring it back, but it doesn’t make for a good night’s sleep unless I medicate. Me that is, mediate ME. Not him.

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Sometimes I want to video tape my husband snoring, because he would be amazed at how LOUD it is sometimes! How do they not wake themselves up???

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I have been there, 100%. But strangely, since having my second child I don’t even notice any more. The upside of total exhaustion I guess.

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My husband is a snorer as well. I kicked him out of our room for a while, so he started sleeping in bed with Princess…until she started to have nightmares about bears…I shit you not. When he travels for work, he has the luxury of his own room b/c no one on his crew will sleep in a room with him.
If you figure out how to make it stop, do tell.

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i wake my husband up. sounds like its time for him to go to the doctor for a little sleep apnea test. or get his tonsils removed. either way. if you can hear his arse downstairs, that’s some serious snoring.

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