I’ve been told I don’t but my dad snores quite loud. I haven’t met a dad who didn’t.
Both my dad and my father in law snore like chainsaws. My dad also has sleep apnea and has a CPAP machine, I don’t think it helps with his snoring.
I’m also a dad, pretty sure I don’t snore unless I sleep on my back or have had a few drinks. If I sleep on my back I usually hear myself starting to snore as I’m falling asleep which wakes me up. My wife on the other hand snores pretty regularly.
If your dad has a CPAP machine and still snores then it’s not doing its job. Either:
- He’s not using it
- He’s removing it halfway through the night
- The mask is not fitting well
Can’t help with the first case. In the second case, it can happen reflexively if the air is too warm or too dry. Is he using the humidifier feature?
For the fit part, he might want to try a different type of mask (eg nasal pillow if using a full mask or vice versa). Different types of masks may also be more convenient for certain sleep postures, which as you already discovered can make you more or less prone to snoring.
I should clarify, I have no idea if it helps with his snoring. My understanding was the CPAP helps with the sleep apnea, snoring is its own thing. I just seem to remember my mum saying he was still snoring, I could be wrong.
That said, I’ll ask him about it, I’m pretty sure he is using it. Case 2 or 3 might be things.
Yes, and when I shared a room with my sibling she would wake me up and tell me to stop snoring. The funny part is she also snored. I never complained once about it.
if i do, i’m insomniac, so i wouldn’t snore much
No but I talk in my sleep. Slightly more embarrassing.
I don’t know how I would know. Nobody has ever told me I do.
I am not a dad, nor male, and I snore horribly and have pretty much my whole life.
Unfortunately getting treatment for it has been a massive fucking headache - whether that’s because I’m a woman, I don’t know, but it’s certainly fucking ridiculous
Mom ? Is that you ?
My father did but it was because he required surgery to fix that. Which he did. Only time I ever saw him vomit was after that surgery.
My husband use to, got a cpap, doesn’t snore anymore. Snored maybe once with it when the allergies were so bad the cpap couldn’t help more. He is not a father.
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Skinny dude here, complete and utter bullshit.
Just went to google and asked the question: yes, within 5 seconds it was confirmed: I AM RIGHT AGAIN.
Google’s AI picks up lies and biases from the internet.
Seriously, there’s been a lot research done on this topic: obesity leads (in many cases) to snoring. It’s a bit of an unpopular truth and rarely talked about, but there is quite some scientific research (beyond googles AI ;-)
I suppose it depends on how you define “normal”. If “normal” is defined by not snoring, sure, you’re right on that count. But it seems like a very subjective way to define correctness, and thus worthless.
I’m not willing to be dragged into a linguistic discussion about the principle “normal”. Too quickly one would get branded as being abnormal, which in current times is counterproductive and can even be life threatening.
You’re perfectly fine with the epithet “fatso” though?
Uh…. Discussion closed.
Not even close to a true statement
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So I googled it and you still sound like a smug jackass.
High BMI may increase the risk of snoring, based on other sources. Unfortunately, you have somehow just dropped age, gender and other factors.
I did stumble on this as well: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/202110/does-googling-perpetuate-the-dunning-kruger-effect
You leave me no other option than to downvote your comment. Discussion closed.
What discussion?
They said discussion closed, gosh!
have snored my entire life. my parents talked about it. have been skinny, rail thin fit (army), average and a bit chunky. snored through it all.
I have a deviated septum and a nose that’s been broken 3 times, and a really big nose. I sleep like the dead.
I’ve snored all my life, I used to be skinny as hell. My brothers are huge, one snores, one doesn’t. Parents are huge too, neither snore.
Statistics doesn’t work with a family of five…
Not unless I’m sick, and I’m dad age. But I’m not particularly overweight and I’m fairly active.
I’ve been told I do.
And yes, I am a dad.
Only if I sleep belly up. If I sleep on the side, I don’t.
The one actually noticing this was my ex-fiancée, we typically spooned when sleeping and she never complained about snoring, but once I was too tired to wait for her and slept first - belly up - she woke me up, worried because I was snoring.
I do. I have a CPAP, which my wife says helps a lot.
not a dad, no i don’t think i snore.
Yeah, have since I was a kid. It isn’t all night every night, or in all positions, but it’s gotten more frequent as I’ve aged.
Been checked out a handful of times, not in need of cpap or other devices. Not yet anyway, if I follow my dad’s pattern, and my uncles on that side of the family, I wouldn’t be surprised if that changes in my late sixties or early seventies. Something about the men in that family line ends up with apnea towards the later years. Some of the women too, though not as many.
But, usually, as long as I’m not flat on my back, and/or my head isn’t tilted back, I won’t snore much at all unless I’m sick or allergies are fucking with me. It’ll be a few snores scattered throughout a nap or sleep, not sustained
