General Chat

roflmao at these stories.

Maggy, I feel the same, time to take some of his own medicine!

I don't know if I could maneouvre a piece of wood under the bedhead end as there is a wardrobe one side and a chest of drawers the other, will have to look in the garage and see if there is a piece of wood and see what I can do.

He went to a local sleep clinic when we first met as I had such a problem sleeping when he snored, and they told him to go away and lose weight so his neck was thinner, lol. Instead he managed to add weight and ended up with an even thicker neck.

Whenever I book us a place to stay on holiday, it always has to have two bedrooms, is my only escape lol

Lizx

I have to be honest and say, when my son and I were on the plane last year to Malta, I dozed off - it had been a long day! We were sitting with the aisle between us and I suddenly woke up, and noticed my son was laughing. I whispered to him Was that me? and he nodded. I was so embarrassed and hoped no one else heard my snort of a snore lol

I keep meaning to say ... if Maggie has an old claw-foot bathtub like mine are, she could test it with a 2x4 under the head of the bathtub. ;)

Julie Ann -- nope, you put it under both legs at the head -- using a single 2x4 makes it more secure, one leg less likely to slip off. You could use a 2x8 for good measure, so no chance of slipping off. ;)

With a four-legged thing, as long as two legs next to each other are the ones propped up, no wobble problem. It's if two opposite legs are out of kilter to the others that you have a problem. Like tables in cheap restaurants.

We should all try an experiment. Everybody get a length of 2x4 (or 2x8) and put it under the head of the bed. First, see whether he notices ... Then see how the next few nights are!

Probably not a cure for real sleep apnea. I pointed out to No.2 that he undoubtedly had that, and he said yes, so he'd been told. It wasn't just the snoring, it was the moaning and yelping that finally made me decide he was probably better off awake. Good choice, if an hour and a half too late. He slept relatively silently after that.

janey surely that would make the bed wobble, if you put a 2x4 under legs,
i did think you were gona say over his head

mine snores geeze like he doesnt believe,
if i shout his name he sits up in bed with his hands up like hes stopin traffic, shouting, "wot, wot day is it wots the time,who told you that, oh never mind "

Lol Maggy, sounds like my OH!!


Caz xxx

My collie used to sleep by my bed and would bark and bark if she heard anything in the night.

Luckily I managed to hear her as she was about to bark on this particular summer night but it took me some time to work out what the strange noise was that she had heard.

Being summer,the windows were all wide open and the man next door,as his wife had told me he did,was singing in his sleep.

Maggy, you've brought to mind the time that I thought my OH had drilled through his leg. He was upstairs drilling holes in circuit board for his latest electronic wizardry when i heard the most godawful wailing. I ran up the stairs as quick as I could, expecting to see him writhing in agony on the floor.
I was really cross to find he was sitting there with headphones on, singing!

Why can't I hear myself snore yet I can hear other half telling me I'm snoring?

PMSL Sharron & Janey, what images that are conjured up.

We had a pet mynah bird which was let out of it's cage in the evening. It used to love my dad and would sit on him all the time. Dad would doze off in the chair with his arms folded and the bird would settle quietly on his forearm and sleep as well.

One evening,as Dad slumbered,we watched the bird look up at his nose.Head tilted to left and right as birds do.

Suddenly the beak went up the left nostril and Father slumbered no more!

When I was a kid my dad was on the road four nights a week. ;)

We have a snapshot somewhere of my dad taking an afternoon nap, snoring with his mouth wide open, and a kitten poking her head into his mouth ... wondering where the horrible noises were coming from, no doubt.

I sometimes laugh in my sleep, at jokes I make up while unconscious. The actual sound I make when I do it, though, is SNOOORK. Which wakes me up.

Mum and Dad now have separate bedrooms so it's not so much of an issue. They had to have separate beds after Dad's spinal problems surfaced and then mum had her Breast cancer surgery. When I was a kid dad used to work nights, it was the perfect solution really LOL.

I'm so used to sleeping alone I don't know that I would handle sharing a bed whether they snored or not. I apparently mumble in my sleep LOL.

Your little moral is so true though.

Here's what my mum swears by -- I think her dr. recommended it.

A 2x4 (on its side) underneath the head of the bed -- under the legs or bedframe or whatever's there.

That will raise it about 1.5 inches as compared to the foot. Not enough to be really noticeable, but apparently enough to be effective.

Now admit it, you thought I was going to say a 2x4 upside the head of the snorer. ;)


And you all know what people write in to advice columns whenever somebody complains about a snoring husband. What my mum would say: I wish he were still here and I'd never complain about his snoring again.

My trite little moral for the day.

LMAO, Liz, my dad is the same. Actually, according to mum he does the 'release of gas' thing too (but then he does that when he's awake...sounds like he's ripping his pants). He had all kinds of things done to try and stop his snoring, investigations for sleep apnoea, had the back of his throat lasered or whatever it is they do. None of it's helped. Camp sites are horrendous. We used to try and tape it when we were kids, but everytime we'd switch the recorder on, he'd stop!

That said, you've not heard anything 'til you've heard my best mate snore. Blimey it's like she doesn't even breath out, like a constant snore on the intake of breath. LOL

Funny that Liz, my hubby says that I snore now too. I just tell him "tough luck" I've put up with his snoring for nearly 30 years, now it's his turn to put up with mine! Revenge for all those sleepless nights at last.

Hi K, am pmsl here. O.h's snoring is notorious in his family, he kept so many people awake once when there was a family weekend at a camp site in Norfolk, he was in a tent with his sons and the noise was horrendous. When he stayed at his son's flat recently, he slept on an air bed in the lounge and apparently the cat kept coming to investigate him and his snoring frightened it away, son's girlfriend couldn't believe the sound and had got up to investigate lol
No wonder I have sleep problems now - am sure the broken nights with his snoring is what started things off! Used to lie there weeping with exhaustion and every time I dozed off his snoring would wake me again. Now he complains I snore, so at least I am sort of getting my own back lol

Lizx

I about killed myself laughing, and I do bring the subject up occasionally these several years later. ;)

That was No.1 of course. His snoring doesn't rival the nightmarish noises No.2 produced in that hotel room in the sky last month ...

JaneyCanuck that is soo funny pmsl

Tina x

I know the feeling.

I spent about 10 minutes late one night in bed trying to figure out whether we had squirrels in the eaves ... a very quiet little soft sound coming in little irregular series, at irregular intervals ... sort of buh buh buh buh ... silence ... a few more ... silence .. a few more ...

It really was that long before I figured out that it was gas being expelled in long slow gentle bursts under the duvet on the other side of the bed.

lmao
he be claiming he feels all dizzy next