Top Tips for tackling snoring
1. Lose weight if you are tubby.
2. Try one of those mandibular advancement devices, like Snorer's Friend or SleepPro, available all over the net. They are like a double sided gumshield and keep your airway open, work in claimed 80% of cases. Worked for me!
3. Become a hermit on an offshore uninhabited island and snore as much as you like.
4. That is all.
(Classic Ray, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 14:12, 3 replies)

Cheers i'm not a fatty so
I'm going to look at that sleeper pro thinga me jig!!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 15:05, closed)

There's always a CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) machine.

My God I used to snore. We lived half a mile from an air tunnel (Moffet Field, Sunnyvale, California, for those who know of the place) and they'd phone me up and ask me to turn over because they couldn't hear themselves think.

I tried the bandaid-like strips that go across the nose, to hold the nostrils open. I tried throat sprays, pills and potions. I tried all manner of over-the-counter stuff. Nothing put a significant dent into the problem. So I went for an overnight sleep study, where they wired me up to all sorts of instrumentation. The worst was snorting novocaine so a 3 inch diametertiny pitot tube could flex its way up my nose and down into the top end of my thorax to measure air pressure. Not pleasant. Not pleasant at all. I could feel it when I swallowed.

A week later came the diagnosis. I suffer, apparently, from a dangling uvula, a high roof of the mouth, a deviant scrotum (they said deviated septrum, but I knew what they meant), and having lived rather too much of a good life. The latter is their code for being a little bit overweight. (I'm 6' and 200lbs now; was around 250 then).

So I got a CPAP. Once I'd got used to wearing the monster from The Thing strapped to my face, I slept very well indeed, waking refreshed and full of beans, mentally alert. All good stuff. I used it for about a decade, and only stopped because when my marriage broke down I lost a fair amount of weight, and discovered that the weight doesn't just disappear from the energy box or beer belly. Soft fatty tissue in the upper palate, throat and elsewhere also reduces. And without the vibrating jubbly fat in my head, I no longer snore unless I've been drinking heavily. Score on all counts!

If you can get a test through insurance or the NHS, LHC says go do it.

There may be one or two exaggerations above, but it's mostly factual
(Large Hardon Collider Bah Bloody Humbug, Thu 30 Sep 2010, 21:02, closed)

Sleep Pro
Does work! I ordered one following your post and tried it last night. SWMBO reported a complete absence of snorage! Thanks!
( Vambo, Wed 6 Oct 2010, 10:13, closed)