How
to Stop Your Snoring… WITHOUT Surgery!
Snoring
is No Laughing Matter
As
innocent children armed with our trusty toolbox of crayons and markers,
we often depicted a snoring person as someone lying in bed with a
series of “Z’s” casually emerging from a
peacefully
sleeping body.
However,
what we neglected to draw – and again, rather innocently
–
was the severe underlying damage that was occurring in that ordinary
picture.
The
Damage is Far-Reaching
Damage
to whom? Well, damage to at least one person, and
potentially many more. Primarily, snoring has the very real
potential of causing health damage to the snorer him or
herself.
This
damage can range from relatively mild sleep disturbances, to
outright fatal Sleep Apnea (described further in this
article).
Indeed, when looked at under this light, those innocent Z’s
in
our childhood drawings don’t seem quite so harmless, anymore.
Yet
is that where the suffering ends -- with the snorer?
Hardly;
and this is where the dilemma of snoring – and it is indeed a
dilemma – takes on an added hue of suffering and
misery.
To
understand this in its painful clarity, let’s return
quickly
to that childhood drawing of the sleeping person (usually a man)
slumbering away after a hard day of work, possibly dreaming about
something pleasant, as Z’s floated up from his peaceful,
sleeping
body.
Now,
how many of us took the time to draw the person trying to sleep
next to that snoring partner? Hardly any of us, I would venture to
presume, took the time to accurately depict the total anguish that the
non-snoring partner of a snorer undergoes on a nightly basis.
But
really, that’s where a great deal of snoring-related
suffering is contained: in the life of someone trying to live (and
love!) a snorer. We’ll take a deeper look at the
tragic
dilemma faced by these people later on in this book.
Snoring
must be Solved!
Of
course, non snorers who have valiantly slept in the same bed, or
even in the same house, as a chronic snorer know precisely how severe
this problem is, and they don’t require any convincing that
snoring is a problem that requires a solution!
Yet
there are some, perhaps, who haven’t yet experienced the
true
violence of living with a snorer; and for those people, I humbly invite
you to try sleeping with any of the following devices; all of which
have been ranked as emitting the same or fewer decibels than the
average snorer:
ð
An operational lawn mower (and
not the super-quiet luxury kind, either)
ð
An industrial vacuum cleaner
(the kind that picks up nails and glass!)
ð
A running motorcycle (these
things have no muffler, really, and you can hear them from blocks away!)
ð
A passing jet (the kind that
wakes up babies, scares cats, and sets off car alarms)
ð
An operational chain saw
(hopefully you
haven’t actually slept while one of these things are
operating…unless you were a horror movie actor)
ð
A blender, food processor, or
hair dryer (not one; all three at once!)
The
Noise is Often NOT Temporary!
And
remember, please: we aren’t talking simply hearing these
sounds and then having them fade, such as what we’re used to
when
we hear a passing jet (i.e. we only have to hear it for a minute or so,
and then it’s gone).
Imagine,
if you can, listening to these sounds all night long; and then
you’ll have a very real and non-exaggerated sense of what a
non-snorer withstands, or tries to withstand, on a nightly basis when
attempting to co-exist with a full-time snorer.
So
in a nutshell: if your exposure to the world of snoring is simply
and innocently depicting some happy Z’s floating up from a
peacefully sleeping person, possibly beside another peacefully sleeping
non-snoring person, then it’s time to update the records:
it’s not a laughing, innocent matter at all. For
both the
snorer and the non-snorer(s), snoring is an extremely serious matter.
And,
as you can imagine, because of that seriousness, a number of
people are desperate to end snoring; either their own snoring, or that
of a partner. And as you can just as easily imagine, that
desperation has inspired an array of so-called solutions; some of which
are effective and safe, and others that are risky and
exploratory.
Unfortunately,
because the problem of snoring is so acute –
it’s actually fatal in some cases, and you can’t
get more
acute than that! – There exists widespread confusion and
misinformation with respect to how to end snoring once and for all.