{"id":7,"date":"2010-07-21T07:17:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2010-07-26T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T04:00:30","slug":"my-questions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"My Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>These  are some of the questions that came to mind as my problem with snoring was happening more and more often. \u00a0Maybe you happen to share  some of the same ones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do I know if I even snore or not?<\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure this is a very common  question. \u00a0 Even after I was told that I was snoring, I sometimes thought that it couldn&#8217;t be true!\u00a0 If you are actually asleep, you really have no definitive  idea if you snore regularly or not. \u00a0In my case, over a few years my wife kept me keenly aware of my snoring and its impact on  her. \u00a0I suppose you could always get a voice activated  mp3 recorder to double-check on yourself if you do sleep alone. \u00a0In my  earlier married years, I have had a little bit of &#8220;light  snoring&#8221; and although I only have added a total of 5 or 10 pounds over the 14 years I have been married my snoring has increased  significantly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why should I care?<\/strong><br \/>\nAt first I didn&#8217;t  think it was anything I should be worried about. \u00a0I even thought maybe my wife would eventually get used to the sound and she would be able  to sleep &#8220;just fine&#8221; through it. \u00a0This was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> the case and it only  got worse.\u00a0 The snoring was bruising our relationship ever so slightly over and over and over again. \u00a0I finally realized rather than just causing me lack of rest, it was affecting us both and I was being unkind to let it continue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can this be due to me being just slightly over-weight?<\/strong><br \/>\nIn fact this was the <em>main point<\/em> my wife would so gingerly bring up <em>before<\/em> I  had visited any of the physicians. \u00a0Losing weight is HARD work and I did drop some pounds for a while but it didn&#8217;t provide any real benefit with regards to snoring that we could tell. \u00a0This was later confirmed by one of the physicians that examined me.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n google_ad_client = \"pub-5046246809536391\"; \/* 300x250, created 7\/11\/10 *\/ google_ad_slot = \"5434359513\"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are some of the questions that came to mind as my problem with snoring was happening more and more often. \u00a0Maybe you happen to share some of the same ones. How do I know if I even snore or not? I&#8217;m sure this is a very common question. \u00a0 Even after I was told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}