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My wife of almost 20 years has been very patient with the fact that I am a "champion" at snoring. In fact, I believe she has actually lost hearing in one ear because of it.
As an experiment, I've started tieing my hair up as much of shoulder-length hair in a bun as I can before bed to try to keep me from sleeping on my back and have had some minor success. My wife says she has heard of people putting tennis balls in the back of their pyjamas for the same effect.
My question is - has anyone tried this with any success, and what type of bun would be best? I'm going to try a sock bun tonight.
AndrewB
More importantly, have you ever been evaluated for sleep apnea? You have an increased risk given your history of snoring.
Thank you everyone for your kind concern. Yes, I do have sleep apnea (and high blood pressure, and a family history of heart disease) and have discussed it with my doctor. She believes that I have a fairly mild form (as it turns out, so does my teen-aged daughter) and we're keeping a careful watch on it.
I may try those "breathe rite" strips/spray as well.
Oh - and the sock bun worked pretty well and my hair came out of it quite easily this morning.
AndrewB
have u also been checked for acid reflux??
I don't think I have an issue with that - no "heartburn" or such. I just had my regular colonoscopy though and was told I have the colon of a 50-year-old. Too bad I'm only 44 - ;-)
Over the last number of years as I slide into the start of middle-age I've been finding that I just have to be more careful about what I put into my body and that I probably should have been a lot more careful 20 years ago. It's amazing the changes that an improved diet and lifestyle choices can make for over-all well-being - and nicer hair as well.
My beautiful brother, Andrew B., be it known in front of the board and everyone else in the world, by these tenets, a contributing FACTOR to my divorce with my former spouse was my wife's (erm, uhm, EX-WIFE'S) serious case of sleep apnia. Realising that it's a medical condition has kept she and me friends. It is usually a symptom of heart disease, usually inheritted. Dude, she and I are still friends. I want her seen through this. Snoring. A bad scene. There's no cure. Losing hearing might be ONE side affect, but a heart doctor wouldst be thou best bet. Thank thee.
Q.
Wrong. Sleep apnea is not related to your heart. People with untreated sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, sometimes hundreds of times. If you have sleep apnea you
really need to see a doctor, have a sleep study done.
And yes there is treatment. Often the treatment
means using a cpap machine or something like that at
night.
I beg an audience w/ you, Mr. Dust In The Wind. As I recall there had been a genetic study linking the sub-carrier indicators of hair loss (alopecia), snoring (sleep apnea), as well as hypertension, and thus, cardial disease. I apologise for not having a pertinent link handready.
Imagine, friends and family that've been long-haired almost all of their lives, beginning to lose their hair, have bouts of severe apnea, aaand arythmias and hence high blood pressure come heart disease. Well? Where ARE those genetic engineers when we need them?!
For solid longhair'd camaraderie AND a panacea for everything (DNA),
Q.
As another champion snorer (or so I've been told) I can tell you that I have not only awakened people in the same bed, but people in the same room and sometimes thoughout a whole house with my snoring. I have slept with a ponytail in for as long as I have had long hair (over 7 years) and never sleep on my back!. This never stopped it. I started using breath-rite strips about a year ago with much relief ( according to my partner :-) ) I recently tried breath-rite throat spray before bed which seems to work even better!
Have you had a sleep study? Do you have sleep apnea?
One of the techiniques for those who have sleep apnea is to sew
a tennis ball in the back of their pajamas to keep them sleeping
on their side and not on their back.
Before doing anything i'd check with your doctor, if you
snore/stop breathing/havae Restless Leg Syndrome you need to
see your doctor and potentially have a sleep study.