Is Snoring Ruining Your Relationship? Here is How to Stop Snoring!

Snoring is very common, but for some people it can make their lives a misery. If you are a snorer then you may find that you wake up feeling tired. This can obviously make you irritable and affect performance at work. It may also affect your safety as a car driver.

If you are the partner of a snorer then you may find that your sleep is disturbed by the noise of your partner's snoring. Some people's snoring can be incredibly loud so in these situations sleep disturbance is inevitable.You may find yourself lying awake willing your partner to stop snoring and perhaps resorting to poking and prodding in a bid to end the snoring. When morning arrives you too may find yourself feeling tired and irritable. In these situations, some people resort to sleeping in separate bedrooms in a desperate bid to get some sleep.

In such circumstances it is almost inevitable that there will a detrimental affect upon the relationship. In fact, snoring has been given as factor in many divorces and relationship breakdowns. So, if this is a picture you recognise then you need to take action to address it now, before your relationship is damaged beyond repair!

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Snoring is caused simply by a restriction in the airway while sleeping. In general terms, while you are awake the muscles around the airway stay taut and keeping the airway open and clear. However, when asleep these muscles become more floppy which can result in soft tissue restricting the airway and vibrating when sleeping. It is this vibration that causes the sound of sleeping.

Here are some factors that can make your snoring worse:

• Overeating and/or lack of exercise - This can lead to a build up of fat around the neck causing the airway to be restricted during sleeping.
• Alcohol and sleeping pills - These cause the muscles to relax more than normal during sleeping causing the oropharynx to collapse more readily causing snoring.
• Sleeping position - While sleeping on your back, your tongue, your chin and any excess fatty tissue under your chin may relax back and squash your airway. This may be prevented by sleeping on your side.
• Smoking - Causes irritation of the lining of the nasal cavity causing swelling and catarrh. This impairs breathing during sleeping.
  Allergies - Can cause congestion in the nasal airway leading to sleep disordered breathing and snoring.
• Mouth breathing - Sleeping with your mouth open causes the inhaled air to hit the back of the throat 'head on' and can create enormous vibrations in the soft tissue.
• Tongue base snoring - If you are a "tongue base snorer", this means that your tongue is dropping to the back of your throat causing an obstruction. This will prevent you from breathing properly and very often your partner will notice "pauses" in your breathing. This is due to the tongue blocking the airway, preventing the air from passing into your lungs. In trying to get past the obstruction the air vibrates the tongue or the throat tissues, causing snoring.

A nasal dilator is a small clip that fits just inside your nose. The effect of this is to open up your nostrils in order to help you breathe more easily through your nose therefore preventing snoring. These can be very effective for many people who snoring is caused by blockages in the nose.

Nasal strips have a similar effect as nasal dilators in opening up the nostrils and improving breathing through the nose. The difference is that the strips stick on the outside of the nose. Some people prefer these to sleeping with a clip inside the nostrils.

There are some people who snore as a result their mouth falling open while asleep causing them to breathe through their mouth rather than their nose. This means that the air hits the back of the throat in such a way that vibration of the soft tissue more likely and therefore snoring tends to result. Chin strap works by simply holding the jaw shut and ensuring that breathing takes place through the nose while sleeping and preventing snoring.

Some people snore as a result of the position their jaw falls into when sleeping. Mouth guards fit inside the mouth when sleeping with the intention of adjusting the position of the jaw and therefore preventing snoring.

Another option is to use specially formulated nasal and oral sprays which work in a variety of ways to stop snoring. Some seek to open up the airways, whilst others look to work on the muscles at the back of the throat.

An alternative to solution is to try hypnosis to stop snoring. This may at first seem like a strange idea, but hypnosis has been found to be helpful for a variety of health conditions. In relation to snoring it basically works by training the snorer to adjust their breathing to ensure that they breathe through their nose rather than their mouth.

However, hypnosis is not just helpful for people who snore, but also the non-snoring partner! This works by training people to ignore the sound of the snoring ensuring that you finally both get a good night's sleep!