I wonder if anyone has any ideas about helping with snoring? I have times when I snore so loud it shakes the rafters, or so my wife says! It has resulted in my having to sleep in the spare room which neither of us like. I have tried all kinds of things to stop my snoring and I know that if I lost weight it would help. I have lost some and for a couple of months I have not been snoring. Now I have started again and my poor wife is getting no sleep again. I do not really want to have surgery, and I don't think I would be offered it unless I lost weight, but I really don't want to go back to the spare room. Help!

This is a problem for which there seem to be many solutions if one can believe the advertising for this devise or that devise some of which look like instrument of torture. I tried one that was a mouth insert designed to push the bottom jaw back and so open the airway more. All that happened was I either nearly choked on it in the night or found it on the pillow beside me in the morning! I am sorry to say that the losing weight thing is probably going to be your best bet, although if you have a deviated septum,m (the middle part of the nose) that might be possible to correct surgically. For the sake of your marriage and your health, I would really advise you to see a doctor.

It is strange with snoring. I know that things like drinking and smoking and being overweight can affect it and of course when you have a cold or some other blockage. But I have gone from soring badly to not snoring and back to snoring badly again and nothing has changed, that I can see! I am trying to cut down on what I drink and i do take a lot of exercise, I could do with losing weight, but I am quite fit despite the weight, so I am at a loss!

I do not smoking and I am not overweight, but snoring badly. Anyone know how to deal with it?

Welcome to the club Andy!

I think that if you do not have any of the usual culprits for snoring like being overweight drinking smoking etc. it might be worth seeing your doctor to see if all is well up the old nose! it could be that you have a deviated septum (the middle apart of the nose) form and old injury perhaps or some polyps that could be taken care of. Maybe your pillows are too high? Lowering them might make the airway straighter. I know why I snore and really I have to do something about it, but yours might be an anatomical problem, nothing serious, I'm sure, but the Doctor might be able to give you a clue.