Snoring, medical term apnea, is a medical indicator, placing you at higher risk of serious medical conditions such as diabetes, strokes, and heart attacks.

Your life insurance rates go up if they find out.

My wife snitched on me to my doctor, I had a sleep study at a clinic, and now I use a CPAP machine when I sleep, which supposedly helps.

Edit: Oh yeah, and snoring/apnea is linked to grinding your teeth, which can lead to root canals, tooth extraction.

Not fun or cheap.

Significant other needs to get treatment. CPAP, for instance. Lose weight, if applicable. Surgery if necessary. Address the root of the problem because it can be a significant health issue for them, while also impacting your health via mechanisms related to lack of restorative sleep.

If it's just a once in a blue moon thing, and waking them up / having them change positions doesn't resolve it, I will go sleep in another room, put in ear plugs or listen to some relaxing music with earbuds in to drown out the snoring.

I snore pretty loudly, have since I was a kid. doctors told me I have "overdeveloped adenoids" and pretty much always will. it doesn't bother me, but for my partner's sake, I've tried a few things.

nasal strips didn't really do anything. the mouth guards are incredibly uncomfortable and I've heard they can loosen teeth, so I finally broke down and tried mouth tape. it works pretty well. it improves my sleep a little and my wife's quite a bit. the name brand stuff is expensive, but it's basically just KT tape.

I keep plenty of that on hand for sports injuries and now I just cut a piece into little strips and it does the job. although, according to my wife, I still manage to honkshoo mimimimi a bit out the sides of my mouth.

By poking me so I lay slightly differently so I don't snore.

Every time she says she didn't sleep well, I apologise for snoring just in case.

Every time I'm awake in the night and she's snoring, I just try and ignore it.

It doesn't bother me. I can sleep in any conditions.

I just lost weight and the snoring went away l.. so yeh

After years of my wife nagging me, I finally got a sleep study done. Turns out I have severe sleep apnea (over 60 stops per hour!) and got a CPAP. It was life changing for me. I never knew how terribly sleep deprived I was. Now I don't snore at all!

I use a CPAP and it is wonderful!!!! I don’t snore anymore and she very rarely does.

I ignored using it for years until my state mandated that if you don’t use it you will loos your driver’s license so I started using it.

I felt like an idiot for not using it sooner. It was insane how much I was not sleeping.

I wasn’t snoring I was suffocating myself.

I lost a lot of weight and it stopped

If the partner is snoring loudly they might have a form of sleep apnea. They should get a sleep study done just to check. My husband's snoring was so loud I could sometimes hear it through earplugs. He had sleep apnea, now he uses a CPAP machine and no more snoring and better sleep for both of us.

A nudge usually does the trick. Sometimes a gentle push is needed.

And when I shared a bedroom with unsignificant others (army), whoever snored got army boots thrown at them. Not recommended for significant others.

My own room. From reading the comments a lot of people just seem to suffer through sleepless nights or try to dictate their partner's health/behaviour. Look, you can love each other without sleeping in the same bed, or even living in the same house.

Edit: you asked for input from those who DO share a bed, sorry. I suffered too for many years, and my health deteriorated. Now even next to a non-snoring partner I'll get zero sleep. Which is why I advocate for considering separate rooms.

If I fall asleep on my back I will probably start to snore, she will poke me and I will probably roll onto a side without waking up and stop snoring.

I got used to it. It used to keep me up, but now I hardly even notice it.

If you're sleeping with a partner who snores, get them to get a sleep study done. If they have sleep apnea, the snoring is the sound of them dying slowly.

I had deviated septum surgery. Took 2 years and $20k but breathing through both nostrils for the first time in my life was worth it.

Snore louder to assert my dominance.

But for real, you do get used to it. I've found I don't snore as loudly when side sleeping vs on my back. I need quiet to get to sleep but not to stay asleep, while my partner will tolerate some noise. So I usually try to fall asleep first and things work out.

If I don't, I usually have a tough night. ☺️

I'm getting my cpap tomorrow. They wouldn't even let me finish the sleep study without hooking me up to one. I do not look like a cpap user let me tell you. 5'8'', 180lbs. Anyone could have apnea. So glad my wife made me go. Excited to sleep without starving my brain of oxygen every night.

Ear plugs help. There are good ones that don't bother you that much when sleeping.

By poking him and telling him to roll over onto his side.

Oof my husband snores. I let him fall asleep first because it's worst when he first falls asleep, when I get in bed I say please stop snoring and he can for long enough I get to sleep, and I guess it's just not as loud after that because I almost never wake up from it. If I snore it wakes me up though, happens rarely but sometimes if I am on my back will snort while asleep and it jerks me awake - I don't understand how my husband can sleep though his own snoring, at all .

I just kinda gently jostle her a little until she stops. Its usually about the angle of the head in my experience (at least for my wife!)

I gently poke/push her until she moves or wakes up

Snore louder than them.

My sibling sleeps in a separate room from their partner, not only because they snore but also because they thrash around a lot.

Slightly pulling the pillow can work if the person isn’t a horrible chronic snorer. Making a person move their head while sleeping will often make them adjust their whole body readjusting their airway and that can both help them sleep better and snore less but it only works on light to moderate snoring, people who are super loud when they sleep probably have something going on that isn’t just position of sleep.

Let me just be really annoying and say, if snoring is something more serious, like sleep apnea, it can shorten your life and lead to coronary issues. Please talk to your doctor, when you can.

Since my nose surgery i am snoring quietly. But when ever it annoys my partner they say they just kick me a bit and i stop

Eventually, you tune it out. Took several years for me. We both snore much less now though so I'm probably no longer immune. You should encourage testing for sleep apnea imo.

CPAP machine was a game changer. Not onlybdo I not bother my wife with snoring, but also I've never slept better!

I mostly sleep through it else a nuzzle-nudge does the trick. I can hear that she hasn't woken up during the whole thing.

Can't hear them snoring if I'm asleep too.

I nudge him in the ribs and tell the spouse to roll onto his side. When it's bad like when he's got a cold, I hit the sofa. He will do the same.

Earplugs.

I don't, neither of us snore.

Earplugs. If those fail, gently poke or push until she turns over, hopefully without waking up.

Background white noise from a fan seems to be the main thing that helps

i snore louder back.

gets them everytime.

then we both go back to sleep.

Hold on while I ask her.

Ear plugs and nudging. Though to be honest, sometimes it's hard to sleep without hearing her drone a little bit.

I stay up until there's a lull in the snoring and fall asleep in that window, thankfully it's not constant or loud enough to wake me once I'm out.

I use a CPAP, and I can tell when it didn't help because I'm uncomfortable, and my wife is sleeping in the living room. Or she yells at me.

For me, I enjoy the sound of light snoring, so my wife or dogs snoring a little bit actually helps me fall asleep. If my wife starts snoring too hard, to the point that it sounds possibly painful or problematic, I gently adjust the position of her head, or get up and physically move her.

Temporal bedroom divorce. I'm only in it during the day he's only in it at night. Sometimes I try to snuggle up to him while he's sleeping for a midnight nap and he gets up to move to the couch and I cry a little inside. Nice to have no sleeping disruptions but a lot less cuddles.

Earbuds with noise cancelling, and fan

We've been together 30 years and counting. One gets used to some snoring. When it's too loud or too annoying (and it's not just me, she too can snore :p) we nudge the other, even when they wake up they almost instantly fall asleep without the snoring.

I have discovered that a gentle nudge makes them stop snoring. This might not be universal but it has been working for me.

Otherwise, white noise can help. Like a fan or something

My experience was: whoever sleeps first, sleeps.

We have a guest bedroom. If I'm snoring too much or her insomnia is too bad she moves to the other one for the night. She usually starts by kicking me to stop the snoring and only moves if it doesn't stop.

For the past year we've been in a studio temporarily and we both miss it so much.

Snoring is most commonly caused by ectopic fat in the airway, which is driven by a impaired metabolism (96% of adults). The good news is the body really does not want fat in the airway (or in muscles, or the liver, or in the visceral cavity), and this often resolves in a few months after fixing your metabolism.

I used to snore very loudly, extremely so. Doing low carb for a few months resolved my snoring (and many other things).. so I was still very fat but not snoring anymore. Which is a win.

I just lay back and enjoy.

I take allergy meds. No more loud snoring!

Pillow over the head. Also, if I get her to flip sides that usually fixies it. E.g. “hey babe can I spoon you”

The few times it's hard to sleep because of her snoring, I lie and think about that my snoring is probably louder.

I take melatonin but i sleep alone most of time🤣

If I snore my wife pokes me and asks to roll over, then she goes back to sleep and so do I. She doesn't usually snore, but I generslly fall asleep faster anyway.

snore louder

Be the snorer.