Snoring!

my husband was the snorer too and I moved out into the guest room

when I started chemo...I do wear the earplugs but his is louder than they !

I developed snoring this fall after all my treatments were done - had occasional snoring before. Had a sleep study done and found out I have sleep apnea.

Deb

I am past my breast cancer chemo, and all I'm doing now is Tamoxifen.  It seems that right around the time I started the Tamoxifen, I also started snoring, apparently loud enough to drive my husband out of the room.  Been going on awhile now.  I also have to sleep with a fan blowing directly on me as I am always hot at night, winter or summer.  I hae NEVER had this problem before, and I am trying to figure out why I am having it now.  Anyone else go through this?  Also, everything I've read says to sleep on your side, but this is when I do it.

This topic is very interesting..! I am having the same problem. I never had a problem with snoring, but since treatment it has been an issue. Has anyone tried any of the products advertised to help reduce snoring? I am so frustrated, but feel better hearing others have noticed this too.

Dear TeraGig,

Welcome to the community. We are sorry for your diagnosis and this subsequent symptom of snoring. We hope that others will chime in with possible shared experiences. Please keep us posted on what you learn from your sleep study. Let us know if you need any help with navigating the boards. The Mods

My husband is reporting loud snoring (from me) and has had to leave for the couch sometimes. This occurred especially towards the end of and after chemo. And my mouth and throat are bone dry in the morning. Looking for a good solution.

Glad to know it’s not just me

Medicine info.: Am now doing Taxol. Been doing Taxol for 4 months.Gemcitabine previously. Been taking pain meds for several years.

SNORING ISSUE: Was an occasional snorer. Now frequent loud snorer. Also like other husbands, mine sleeps in another room now.

Husband won't wear ear plugs or use white noise machine. It's up to me to find an answer and would like to.

Mouth does *not* feel particularly dry in morning. But husband will watch my sleeping position as well going forward.

Husband recorded snoring at my request. It sounds mechanical. Not like what people think a traditional through the nose snore sounds like. Husband said he could not tell where sound was coming from.

And the snoring IS pretty awful! He says it can last for several hours or I might not snore at all or it could last for 15 minutes or it might be soft snoring.

The night he recorded my snoring, I was sleeping on my back. (It was a three-hour nap.)

My snoring does not wake me up, which husband finds surprising. It only wakes him up.

Looking at various articles on this subject, I am not overweight, I don't smoke, hardly ever drink alcohol and don't eat large meals before bed. So what is causing this odd sounding snore?

But putting a tennis ball or some obstruction underneath me will not work as I have bone problems. All of my bones are painful from go. So finding a sleeping or sitting position that is comfortable is difficult to begin with.

Laying evenly on my back to sleep has been the best for my entire body: rib cage, hips, shoulder blades. Side sleeping, which I used to love, is not really a viable answer for me anymore. Also laying on my back for 8 hours is not a good option either and I pay for that in pain when I wake up as well. But laying on my back is where I start an evening's sleep. Yes, it is a conundrum.

Was also doing reading on snoring. Apparently there are different types of snoring: nose, soft palate, etc.

If anyone on this thread who contributed years ago and has an update or anyone new to this list has any ideas, solutions or options they took to solve the snoring issue, we would all be interested to know what others have done.

I personally believe the snoring issue was created by the C medicine/treatments/pills etc. we take, versus the disease itself because the snoring issue wasn't there early on.

It seems like no one answer has worked for anyone here in a great way---as in a remedy-- for the snoring. But any input would be appreciated!! Thank you.

Snoring, especially with pauses, as some here understand, can be due to moderate or severe obstructive apnea which is not just a problem because of its waking your partner, but also because it is bad for the cardiopulmonary system, may increase insulin resistance, worsen diabetes and obesity, and can worsen hypertension degree and stroke risk.

Older CPAP was very uncomfortable, but newer innovations allow more comfort, or BIPAP can be used instead, and an ENT doctor can look to see if there are structural problems in the nose or throat.

It is more common if you are after menopause ( natural, surgical, or chemo induced) and as noted, if obese, drink alcohol, or take narcotics and sleepers, or had head trauma or other brain injuries.

Anyone with apnea should also have their TSH (the usual docs check) and free T4 (the less common one checked) done to assure they are not hypothyroid, a treatable cause. Anesthesiologists also need to know if you have this pre-surgery.

Otherwise, we are left with ear plugs, I use some blue clay-like ones from Amazon that really block out sound when I visit an obese post-menopausal friend who refuses modern medicine, but she clearly has prominent apnea with intermittent loud snorting and locomotive type snoring through the night, especially if she lies on her back.

People claim they have gotten divorced, because of a partner snoring, but there are other options!

Yes, after all active treatment I was snoring like crazy. Long story short- after many tests etc., we discovered I have neuropathy of the tongue which causes intermittent snoring (along with some crazy off and on issues with swallowing). I use a CPCP every night and the results have been so positive that if I even take a short nap- the CPAP is ON!  

GERD can also cause you to snore and to wake up multiple times, mimicking sleep apnea. It might be worth it to try a two week course of acid suppressors if you are experiencing some heartburn (with your doctors ok of course). I was surprised by this - my general doctor suggested it when I asked to do a sleep study because I was waking up a lot and that mouth was dry because it must have been hanging open!