snoring

Loud and frequent snoring is one of the symptoms of sleep apnea. This is a common, but serious condition, often associated with obesity. During sleep, the soft tissue at the back of the throat collapses and blocks the airway, stopping respiration. I started snoring about 20 years ago when I started gaining weight. It got so bad my husband and I had to sleep in separate rooms. I also was sleepy throughout the day, even though I was going to bed earlier and earlier. A year ago I did a sleep study that showed I had stopped breathing 88 times during a four-hour period. I was fitted with a CPAP machine which blows air into a mask over my face, keeping my airway open. I noticed immediate results, getting my first uninterrupted night of sleep in decades. I was more alert during the day, my blood pressure improved, and I ceased having claustrophobic nightmares. If your husband's snoring is accompanied by short periods of silence followed by gasping sounds, if he wakes up often during the night or wakes up with a sore throat or headache, he should see a doctor.

Hi vathsala30. Well that could be pretty annoying especially when you're so tired and wanted a good night sleep. That could definitely ruin your entire night and even the next day, since you didn't have enough sleep. hehe Well, as for me, I don't snore, I never did. That's a good thing, cause at least I won't be disturbing anyone's beauty rest. =)

I've been told that I snore. It doesn't botters me all that much though. It's the most natural thing and you have absolutely no control over it. So there shouldn't be a reason to be ashamed of it either.

I think I do because ive done it when im half a sleep and I can hear it so im guessing I do even though no one has actually told me that I snore. It could only be sometimes though that I snore I dont think I do it all the time though. I know my dad snores a lot and he is loud lol.

I snores and i could not help but it sounds little and I am not shy to admit when i get tired i snores most of the times which is very embarrassing when I have companion other than my sister. At least my sister could take it to hear it but i do not like a stranger to laugh at me..

I snore TERRIBLY, or so I've heard... although my roommate says that she doesn't know what people are talking about because she's never heard me snore...but she did say that I sometimes stop breathing in my sleep...and I talk. One time she said that a strange man's voice came out of my mouth while I was sleep talking and she thought the radio had randomly turned itself on but it was actually me. YIKES!

My father was a great snorer. It was an incessant music of bumble bees. Then it was my husband's turn. But this is a light motor cycle start sound. When I catch cold, family says I snore lightly, may be because nose is blocked. Then you have to ask my family to explain the nature of the snore.

Lucky are my mates in sleeping because I don't snore. I hate those people who including my brother who snores a lot during sleep. I find it hard to sleep when I hear someone doing that noise.

i don't snore as my wife had told me. but our two year old son do, since 4 months that we noticed him snores like a grown up, like an adult person. but i would like to correct you, snoring is not a habit. it is a symptom of sleep apnea. this is the state in a sleeping person that stops breathing while asleep. here is one discussion i have started about snoring and sleep apnea: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1888045.aspx thanks for this discussion...

I don't know but I think I snore. I never been disturb by my own snore so I never really know. But my mom did say I snore so I guess I did. My younger brother sleep with me and he never wake up during the night so I guess I never disturb his sleep. We also have one of my cat, Kitty sleeping with us and it doesn't seem disturb as well.

Ha ha we have that same problem with my dad.Whenever he catches cold he snores so loudly that we can hardly sleep..Its very irritating at first but later we kindof got used to it....