Is there a Nobel peace Prize for the cure for snoring?

[Pax]

Glad you found a fix Trek, I drink enough water to float a battleship but still snore when I'm on my back. If it wasn't for the invention of soft ear plugs, I'd be sleeping in the spare room.

[Trek420]

Glad you found a fix Trek, I drink enough water to float a battleship but still snore when I'm on my back. If it wasn't for the invention of soft ear plugs, I'd be sleeping in the spare room.

Hmmm, well dang. There goes that theory. Or is it the exception that proves the rule?

[Pax]

Hmmm, well dang. There goes that theory. Or is it the exception that proves the rule?

Well, I do think I'm exceptional.

[indysteel]

Interesting. I tend to snore if if I'm my back. So, when I married a couple years ago, I made a conscious effort to sleep on my side. Problem solved....until my thyroid started to go wonky. All of a sudden, I started snoring regardless of my sleep position. It coincided with starting on an anti-thyroid medicine, which tended to put me in a hypo state. That also tended to increase the size of my thyroid. As we ramped down my medicine--I just went off of it altogether a couple of weeks ago--I stopped snoring. I asked my endo if there was a connection, but she insisted that short of a huge goiter, there likely wasn't one. I have to wonder though. Nothing else has otherwise changed healthwise.

[Trek420]

Well, I do think I'm exceptional.

Well yes. And obviously your honey does too.

As we ramped down my medicine--I just went off of it altogether a couple of weeks ago--I stopped snoring. I asked my endo if there was a connection, but she insisted that short of a huge goiter, there likely wasn't one. I have to wonder though. Nothing else has otherwise changed healthwise.

Right. And of course you could not be right about the connection.

[indysteel]

Right. And of course you could not be right about the connection.

I know! It sort of irritates me when a doctor dismisses something like that merely because one of their med school textbooks says otherwise. Grrrr.

[Trek420]

Well the med school textbooks are based on research. There are sleep institutes, studies, labs, specialists and an industry with a whole big line of products ... I found references saying things like "we all know that water can ..." "It's common knowledge that ..." but why no research?

Why wouldn't your doctor say "Hmmm, interesting. I haven't seen or read or heard this before but hmmm. You may be right".

Where's the curiosity? Is it because "water" or even the act of "not taking something or other" can't fund a research project?

[Pax]

Well the med school textbooks are based on research. There are sleep institutes, studies, labs, specialists and an industry with a whole big line of products ... I found references saying things like "we all know that water can ..." "It's common knowledge that ..." but why no research?

Why wouldn't your doctor say "Hmmm, interesting. I haven't seen or read or heard this before but hmmm. You may be right".

Where's the curiosity? Is it because "water" or even the act of "not taking something or other" can't fund a research project?

That's why I stick with my doctor. She wanted me to start on Lipitor for my cholesterol, I pointed out the studies that showed little efficacy for statins used by women, the studies that showed it lowers total cholesterol but does NOT show a matching reduction in risk for cardiac incidences. She listened and said she'd look into it; at the next appointment she said she understood my concerns and wouldn't push the medication any more.

[snapdragen]

I know! It sort of irritates me when a doctor dismisses something like that merely because one of their med school textbooks says otherwise. Grrrr.

Indy, I once had a doctor tell me there was no connection between my bouncing thyroid levels and when I took my calcium pills. I have a new doc now..

[goldfinch]

I have snored since I was a young child. I have sleep apnea as does my spouse. We could bring the roof down with our snorts and snores. There was a year we couldn't even sleep in the same room because we could not get enough sleep. I have a feeling that I had sleep apnea since I was pretty young and that it contributed to several health problems that have not gone away even though I lost weight.

Cool that dehydration was linked to your snoring, Trek! Me, I am stuck with CPAP.