Best remedies/products for stopping snoring?

Breath rite strips are cheap

Don't sleep on your back and don't get drunk before bed may help but losing weight is really what you need to do if you want to stop it

CPAP

You'll thank us later.

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don't get drunk before bed

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So I should get drunk after bed?

I mean...that was probably one of the issues last night. We went through...4-5 bottles of wine so that may have done it.

Tonsillectomy.

ETA: My brother has a 6 pack and snores like a frieght train. Weight has nothing to do with it.

Do a sleep study at your local hospital. That will give you the information you need to figure out what to do. There aredifferent solutions, depending on the cause of your snoring.

I used a CPAP for awhile; it was okay but the discomfort of the apparatus was more than I cared to deal with. You might find help with a simple face mask that helps keep your mouth shut when you sleep.

Ask your dentist too about the gadgets he has--they now have a sort of mouth guard that they claim is very effective in preventing snoring.

As for me, I just snore away now. I sleep alone with my bedroom door closed. That seems to work for the other members of my household.

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Do a sleep study at your local hospital

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I'm sure it's happened before somewhere in this world, but I have never personally met anyone who's had a sleep study that did not have CPAP/BiPAP recommended.

Weight can cause snoring related to a type of apnea - it's called Pickwickian syndrome, from the Dickens character, Mr. Pickwick.



My neurologist said mine was just the result of the size and shape of my sinuses and air passageways, not my gut. Dodged a bullet there.

You won't believe how much better you'll feel with a snoreless night of sleep.

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My neurologist said mine was just the result of the size and shape of my sinuses and air passageways, not my gut.

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Yes, from what I know--a fair amount, since I too was diagnosed with sleep apnea--the condition is not always due to a weight problem.

In my case I have a small mouth, which causes much of my snoring problem.

Another poster wrote that sleep studies almost always lead to using a CPAP. I'm sure that's true--that was the solution I was given. But as I wrote, the discomfort outweighed the benefits, so now I just snore away.

The doctor says I have severe sleep apnea, and that it could even lead to death. Well, at age 61 that proposition doesn't disturb me as much as it might have years ago.

I guess the thing to do is collect what information you can about your particular situation and try the different solutions. For me, doing nothing has, so far, been the best solution.