I ran across the comment, if you snore, get tested for sleep apnea. Now. My sweetie, who is not in the least overweight, snores quite a bit, and has been getting louder over the years. He doesn’t have many apnea risk factors (in fact, just [1] one family member, his nephew, who has had apnea surgery and [2] the worried wife), but his chest moves in odd, possibly not breathing, ways before really loud snores. Add in my insomnia (and inso-mom-nia: waking whenever I hear my child make a nighttime peep), and I do not look forward to bedtime when my nightly struggle to sleep begins.
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Just noticed your link to my blog - hi there! Bonk your sweetie over the head and take him into a sleep clinic.
You don’t have to be overweight - as far as I understand, it’s mostly a matter of having just a little too small an airway and a little too much sleep-time relaxation in the throat muscles. Weight makes it worse, but I’ve met a few pretty slim and active people who have sleep apnea nonetheless.
As a bonus, I’ve heard from my wife that the white noise of my CPAP machine blowing air helps her sleep. A pretty big switch from snoring!
Comment by l.m.orchard — January 16, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
Luckily, he has an appointment in three weeks to get checked. And I prefer to sleep with white noise! I tune into the noise, turn off my busy brain (in theory … that’s the key to my insomnia), and fall asleep.
Comment by Dr Mom — January 17, 2008 @ 2:21 pm