{"id":19,"date":"2010-07-24T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2010-07-26T23:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:33:13","slug":"failed-attempts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"Failed Attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My issue with snoring has gone on for around 4 or 5 years.\u00a0 My fight  with snoring started off quite infrequently and irregularly occurring and has built to a  nightly expected and unfortunately quite annoying encounter.\u00a0 Around a year into the start of  my snoring episodes when I began to interrupt sleep for my wife on a regular basis,  we looked for and tried quite a few of the &#8220;easy&#8221; and honestly ineffective drug-store type solutions. Check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?p=152\">video review<\/a> of some of them.\u00a0 The first we tried were menthol nasal inhalers and some minty throat sprays.  These really didn&#8217;t produce any difference, although for a minute or so it feels like it may help you breathe easier.\u00a0 I am sort of surprised that these solutions are available in drugstores and <em>not what I ended up using as a solution<\/em> as they didn&#8217;t seem to provide any benefit for me. As the snoring started to increase in  frequency and volume, my wife started to struggle with sleeping in the same room with me through the night.\u00a0 This pushed us along in our search for a fix to the problem.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 20px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-5046246809536391\";\n\/* 300x250, created 7\/11\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5434359513\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The next stage were the nasal strips that helps one breathe &#8220;right&#8221; rather than breathe wrong I guess.\u00a0 While they didn&#8217;t  really eliminate snoring, they were quite effective in helping reduce the restriction  caused by my slightly collapsed nasal passages.\u00a0 They actually do allow you to breathe  easier.\u00a0 The days after mowing the lawn when my nose seemed to be more restricted than other  days, the strips do help me with airflow and allow me to breathe through my nose and not  through my mouth when sleeping.\u00a0 My wife also often would wake me up and make sure I was  positioned on my side rather than my back.\u00a0 This was the best way to keep the snoring  softer, but usually would not make it go away.\u00a0 She often mentioned that it wasn&#8217;t the  snoring itself that<br \/>\nprevented her from sleeping, but rather it was the inconsistent snoring where my breathing was interrupted and I would have some slight choking sound and  then resume breathing (with snoring).<\/p>\n<p>The presence of snoring (at least for me) is  not really altered whether or not I am breathing through my nose or mouth or both.\u00a0 The  snoring may just be slightly louder with my mouth open as I think my nose must slightly dampen the sound as the passages are smaller.\u00a0 Last winter I ended up gaining about 10  pounds.\u00a0 The snoring became unbearable for my wife and she ended up spending many nights on  the couch. I encouraged her to wake me and I would go out to the couch myself as the  bed is much<br \/>\nmore comfortable.\u00a0 At this point I made and appointment with my general\/primary care physician.<br \/>\n<P><HR><P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My issue with snoring has gone on for around 4 or 5 years.\u00a0 My fight with snoring started off quite infrequently and irregularly occurring and has built to a nightly expected and unfortunately quite annoying encounter.\u00a0 Around a year into the start of my snoring episodes when I began to interrupt sleep for my wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}