Can you buy him one of those nose things from the chemist that are supposed to stop snoring? Allegedly I snore sometimes!! DH just pushes me in my sleep (or sometimes more roughly) and turning over stops it , I find when DH snores he doesn't even remember that I've disturbed him and made him turn over so he doesn't get annoyed.
Good luck with the hospital, DH stayed with me when I had DD2 and it was actually not a good idea cause he kept getting angry that she was waking him and he had to go to work so I ended up pacing the corridors with her and the nurses got upset.
I have a chronic and very very loud snorer here too - so I feel your pain babe. He still can't understand why I choose to sleep in the spare room most nights when he refuses to wear his ventilator (to prevent him from snoring - but he even snores through that).
Does he stop breathing, or is it just the snoring? Mine stopped so I could use the excuse that I was concerned about his breathing and pack him off to the doctor. Might be a bit late for you now though.
I've tried to think of a way to help you say it nicley but I can only think of being nice but blunt.
I know he's not asking for feedback, but there's a technique called the sandwich technique where you give positive feedback, then the negative feedback, then finish up with positive feeback. The theory is they are better able to take in the negative feedback if they don't hear it straight up.
Everyone tells me he should be the one on the couch..... I actually think we are finally getting a bed for the spare room today (I asked him if we got one would he use it). I can't tell him to go to the couch - its that assertive problem. I just wake him again and again and hope he will leave on his own accord but after awhile I just get up if he doesnt.
He went to a specialist a few weeks ago and we are still waiting on a referral for a sleep study (how long does it take to write a referral???) He doesnt stop breathing, its definately just snorning but he even snores on his stomach. They have warned us it will be one of two operations to clear more room in his airways but we wont get in to have it done until mid to end of 2009...grrrrr
We have tried everything excepot a mouthguard - nose rings, snore strips, sprays in fact we have even done combinations of them and some nights it helps - its a softer snore that I can sleep through but its almost like it wears off after a little while and its back to full blown snoring.
It took me an hour and a half to get back to sleep last night and to top it all off next door have a new dog that has taken to yelping at all hours of the day and night so I was up again early listening to the dog which I so nicely want to choke!!
I really just needed a vent I feel like such a whiney cow now.......
Thanks for the GL's as well. I am actually quite scared, I didnt think I would be but I am.
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