{"id":222,"date":"2010-08-14T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T20:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2010-08-15T06:22:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T11:22:03","slug":"drawbacks-of-the-mouthpiece","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?page_id=222","title":{"rendered":"Noted Drawbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As with anything, there are always a few drawbacks!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Initial gums discomfort:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn order to be objective, I feel it is important that I relay all the difficulties which I have encountered using the mouthpieces.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nEar Pressure:<\/strong><br \/>\nBesides the initial discomfort for a few weeks of the mouthpiece putting pressure against my gums, I noticed a slightly odd feeling when taking it out in the morning.  This was usually right below my ear and would usually go away if I shifted my jaw around for a minute or so.  It wasn&#8217;t really painful, just noticeable.  The funny thing is that I never felt it until after I took out the mouthpiece.  Now after a few months, I rarely feel the feeling of pressure below my ears so I think that I have somehow acclimated to it.  <\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; padding: 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><strong>Must breathe through nose:<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother issue I have found is that if I cannot breathe through my nose, the mouthpiece will end up coming out.   When the mouthpiece comes out, my jaw will shift back to its &#8220;normal&#8221; position. The times I had trouble is either when I had a cold and my nose was clogged or sometimes if I worked out in the yard and my allergies flared up due to pollen or some sort of hayfever.  A nasal strip used in conjunction with the mouthpiece seemed to help unless my nose was totally restricted.  If I mowed in the evening and my nose became clogged later on in the night, it would force me to expell the mouthpiece and of course I started snoring without it in place.  Luckily I am rarely sick, so this hasn&#8217;t been too major of a drawback.  <\/p>\n<p> <HR> <P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with anything, there are always a few drawbacks! Initial gums discomfort: In order to be objective, I feel it is important that I relay all the difficulties which I have encountered using the mouthpieces. Ear Pressure: Besides the initial discomfort for a few weeks of the mouthpiece putting pressure against my gums, I noticed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222","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=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}