Snoring

Hi I wonder if anyone else can relate. I am fed up with my husband telling me that I am keeping him awake with my snoring! I am 50 years old. I suffer from under active thyroid, asthma, maybe allergies for which I have recently started to take antihistamines which I thought may help! I am slim, keep myself fit and active and eat a healthy diet! I mentioned it to the nurse at my surgery a few years ago and she just laughed! Any suggestions would be greatly received thank you.

[shaws Administrator]

I read - have no idea personally if it works - is to put a squash ball/or small ball on your nightwear, so that if you turn-onto your back it will probably mean you turn onto your side. It's worth a trial. You can make your own at little cost.

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[cjrsquared]

Snoring is not a joke. If is also a fallacy that only overweight people can have sleep apnoea. Do you have an irregular breathing pattern at night with gaps between snores? This may be position related. If so you need to see your gp and ask about a referral for sleep studies to rule out sleep apnoea. Untreated sleep apnoea predisposes to T2 diabetes and to strokes.

If you don’t have sleep apnoea you can still ask for a referral to ENT for investigation of your snoring. There are treatments that can be effective so please don’t suffer. Good luck

[Marz]

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I have just typed Snoring into the Search Box above - and lots of earlier posts from this forum appeared - so you are not alone ! Hopefully by reading the posts that appeal - you may learn some little gems of wisdom

[SlowDragon Administrator]

If you have Hashimoto's then sleep apnea is more common

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Getting thyroid levels fine tuned may help, plus improving vitamin levels

Have you tried dairy free diet?

Dairy intolerance is common and can cause mucus and sinus and breathing issues

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[SlowDragon Administrator]

When were thyroud and vitamins last tested?

How much Levothyroxine are you currently taking?

Only result on here showed TSH too high at 4

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Low vitamin levels are extremely common with Hashimoto's

For full Thyroid evaluation you need TSH, FT4 and FT3 tested. Also extremely important to test vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

Recommended on here that all thyroid blood tests should ideally be done as early as possible in morning and fasting. Last Levothyroxine dose should be 24 hours prior to test, (taking delayed dose immediately after blood draw). This gives highest TSH, lowest FT4 and most consistent results. (Patient to patient tip, best not mentioned to GP or phlebotomist)

Private tests are available. Thousands on here forced to do this as NHS often refuses to test FT3 or antibodies or all vitamins

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/testin...

Medichecks Thyroid plus ultra vitamin or Blue Horizon Thyroid plus eleven are the most popular choice. DIY finger prick test or option to pay extra for private blood draw. Both companies often have special offers, Medichecks usually have offers on Thursdays, Blue Horizon its more random

[JumpJiving]

See your GP re. snoring. He/she will take a look up your nose, to see if there is visible obstruction caused by rhinitis, infection etc. He/she might refer you to have a sleep study done, which will (amongst other things) check for sleep apnoea (potentially life shortening, so worth checking). How well your sinuses drain will also be checked, usually by an ENT person. If the sinuses are not draining effectively, you can opt for surgery to widen the channels. I had this done 20+ years ago. It certainly helped for a while, but worsening hay fever, and allergy to our dog mean that even the widened channels cannot cope any more. I take Cetirizine hydrochloride (available OTC) to try to reduce the symptoms, but it's not enough for the number of things that I react to. Nose spray helps more, whether Otrivine (which you are not supposed to use for more than a few days at a time), or Mometasone Furoate (prescription only). If stuff coming out of your nose is green, your GP might put you on antibiotics in combination with antihistamines and nose spray, in order to clobber things all in one go. Other things you can do include nasal douching (instructions from NHS available online) and getting an air purifier (I have a fairly hefty Vax one, which I move around - easier is to have one in the bedroom and another in any other rooms you spend significant time in).

Basically, there is no one answer (other than separate rooms), but snoring is important, so talk to your GP. (Your partner might want to try ear plugs, but which ones work for different people seems to be very individualised, so experimentation may be required. The ones that work best for me are unfortunately no longer made in a size that fits my ears)

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Thank you so much for your replies. I am just sick and tired of all the problems I have going on at the minute. They say you shouldn’t go to your GP with more than one problem. I have just listed 10 things that I need to tell them about but I am guessing that most of the list is probably linked in some way to the Thyroid! But I am thinking to hell with it I am just going to go in and give the list to the doctor as I am at the end of my tether now. I am not a hypochondriac but my list may tell the GP otherwise! Thank you all again for your helpx

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Suggests your thyroid is not correctly treated yet, first step is full Thyroid and vitamin testing

Plus sleep study for sleep apnea

[Treepie]

Agree with Slow Dragon.My mega snoring and sleep apnoea stopped once properly medicated. Prior to that I had a dental device fitted that worked fairly well.