What actually helped reduce your snoring?

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[–] 67 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Sleep apnea diagnosis and CPAP.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Losing weight and not drinking alcohol.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Losing weight is shockingly effective.

    I've seen it in my whole family. We've talked about it. Snoring for us follows a clear pattern - gain weight, snore more. Lose weight, snoring goes away.

    Drinking - same thing.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pushing spouse from back onto side

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  • [+] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    Breathe Right strips worked for a bit but weren't effective long term. Eventually got tested for sleep apnea and ended up with a CPAP machine.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    A sleep study would probably be a good idea just to make sure you’re not stopping breathing while snoring - AKA obstructive sleep apnea. A sleep doctor may even have some other ideas like custom dental appliance or things other commenters and I aren’t aware of.

    CPAP worked for me, dental appliance did not, nasal strips never worked

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    An anti-snoring appliance made by my dentist. Works great. Wife gets upset when I don't use it.

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    adjustable bed to sleep at an incline, or if i'm on vacation in a hotel i make a T-shape out of the pillows to incline as best i can from the waist up. if my sinuses feel clogged at all before bed i might take a claritin or something. exercise to get rid of some body fat also seems to have helped.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    got rid of my ex wife

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sleep on side, no snore, but rotator cuff syndrome.

    Sleep on back, snore, but no rotator cuff syndrome.

    I hate being old.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Getting divorced. I haven’t had a complaint about my snoring since

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    What's your diet? What's your habits?

    Overall improvement in diet and habits can have an amazing effect on this. Cut out all the unhealthy shit and start drinking water exclusively. You got this.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Getting tonsillitis and having my tonsils removed.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    My snoring appears to be dust / hayfever related.

    I wash my bedding regularly, vacuum my bedroom regularly, also under the bed, and have a shower before bed.

    It appears to have reduced my snoring.

    PS. CPAP didn't work for me, made things much worse.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    How could it make things worse? They have dust filters

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It caused the lining in my nose to swell which in turn blocked my nose, which caused me to breathe more through my mouth, which caused me to choke and wake up explosively gasping for air. It was not fun .. at all.

    Over the period of seven days I tried several different masks with the help of my local sleep clinic who initially tested me via a full sleep study, then fitted the masks and evaluated the CPAP machine data.

    CPAP isn't a universal "fix", which is what I was told about before going into the trial.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Oh I didn't mean CPAP being a silver bullet, it just seemed like a pretty good solution for avoiding dust. I don't have any problems breathing though my mouth with CPAP so that is why I was surprised

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Bipap works wonders for snoring. I fucking hate the thing though.

    Others have had luck with removal of tonsils/adenoids but that can be really rough as an adult.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Never start a headline with "Anti"

    People who read it wonder what the n and the t are doing there...?

    /s

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    the person you replied to is making an impotent joke about how all anyone posts about is AI. anti -nt = ai

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