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Overview of Popular Snoring Remedies
What Causes Your Snoring? Snoring occurs when throat muscles relax and close a little during sleep. The sleeper tries to breathe through an opening in the back of the throat that is too small, causing the soft palate to vibrate and create the sound that is the bane of non-snorers everywhere. More than forty million Americans -- more than one in seven people -- suffer from habitual snoring, according to a report by the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research issued in 1994. Another seven million to 15 million Americans suffer from a related problem, sleep apnea, says the American Sleep Apnea Association. As we grow older, more people snore and they usually snore louder and longer.
Doctors Wary of Surgical Remedies Before resorting to invasive, painful and costly surgical procedures to treat snoring, many physicians say there are a number of lifestyle changes that should be tried first. They include losing weight, exercising, stopping smoking, sleeping on one's side and refraining from alcohol at night. Also, dentists can make devices that hold the tongue in place and keep the throat passage clearer. Even special snoring pillows and the nose strips popular among athletes and available at local drug stores may help to some extent.
Snoring & Sleep Apnea For those suffering from sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening sleep disorder, there are dentist-fitted oral devices that hold the tongue and jaw forward to keep the air passage in the back of the neck open. For the most severe cases of sleep apnea, there are air pressure devices. The most common is called continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP. It involves wearing an air pressure mask while sleeping that forces air down the back of the throat and keeps the passage open.
Sleep Apnea can be life-threatening. If you snore, please consider having yourself tested for this serious sleep disorder!
How to Stop the Snoring About 85% of people not suffering from a sleep disorder who snore during sleep do it through their open mouth, not their nose. If you snore through your mouth, that simple medical fact means that any effective snoring reduction solution must help keep the mouth closed during sleep - not an easy thing to do. Want to stop the snoring? Find a way to keep your mouth closed during sleep.
Putting tape or clips on or in the nose does nothing to stop open-mouth snoring - which is, according to leading sleep specialists, the #1 cause of most chronic, loud, habitual non-apnea snoring in adults like you. Taping the mouth closed with adhesive chin strips can work for some snorers, but it's useless for men with facial hair or beards (about 21% of the adult male population of the U.S., according to Psychology Today), or many people with sensitive skin. It's also much more expensive over the course of a year than the SnorEnder.
What about anti-snore sprays? A leading expert on snoring, and a consultant to the leading Web portal for healthcare information states on the site that he does not recommend snore sprays. Neither does Consumer Reports.
What Causes Snoring?
Tissue vibration. Nothing more.
As you start to doze off and move from a shallow sleep to deep slumber, the muscles in the roof of your mouth (soft palate), tongue and throat relax. Contrary to popular belief, these muscles usually don't get significantly "longer" or become "weaker" as we age - except for those who may have gained and then lost substantial weight, where the muscles may lose "tone."
This fact implies that some anti-snoring devices and exercise programs that may promise to end snoring by "tightening" or "training" oral muscles might be promising more than they can reasonably deliver. The process of snoring more as we age is a natural occurrence, you can't "retrain" these muscles in the throat and mouth to tighten up, as you would those 6-pack abs you're still working on. That requires surgery.
If the tissues in your throat and soft palate relax enough, they vibrate and may partially obstruct your airway. The more narrowed your airway, the more forceful the airflow in and out through the mouth becomes. Tissue vibration increases, and your snoring grows deeper, louder, and more annoying to those around you.
Being overweight or obese, having a neck size 17 inches or larger, and a maintaining a sedentary lifestyle may also contribute to narrowing of your throat tissues and increased snoring. Exercise, weight-loss and a healthy lifestyle may help reduce snoring. But, since as many as 60% of us are overweight, according to the US Government, wearing the SnorEnder is probably a lot easier way to reduce or stop your non-apnea snoring than losing 30-100 pounds of extra weight for most people over 40.
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The Quest for Sleep
Did you know that the U.S. Patent Office has issued more than 790 patents for snoring remedies since it was established by Congress in 1796? More than 130 patents have been issued for acupuncture and acupressure. And about 200 patents exist for magnetic therapy methods and devices.
Some 300 anti-snoring devices have been developed and marketed over the years, including one for a "hard rubber ball sewn into the back of a nightshirt... issued in 1908. And still, millions of people snore nightly in homes across the country.
The quest for a good night's sleep has occupied some of the most inventive (and possibly sleep-deprived) minds of each generation. From nasal tape, chin "pillows" and bulky restrictive headbands, masks, surgery and sprays to bed risers, herbal "drugs" and uncomfortable mouthguards, and even "mouth plugs" with holes drilled through the middle, anti-snoring solutions can be readily found on the Web, at your local pharmacy and through alternative healthcare stores everywhere.
We've compiled this table to help you better understand the range of options, and their cost (per month & year). We have also provided more information on some products from published expert sources when we feel it might be useful. By no means are these the only, or even the "best" anti-snoring solutions. They are, however, among the more popular ones that we have personally tried.
If you snore, you may have Obstructive Sleep Apnea. ONLY your healthcare professional can diagnose this potentially life-threatening sleep disorder.
What WORKS, What Doesn't, And Why
Obviously, we think that the SnorEnder is the best non-prescription anti-snoring product available today, but no approach works for everyone, including ours. We urge you to try a number of different products and approaches if you haven't already. Some of these fine products may be very helpful to reduce or stop your snoring.
We've listed some of the more popular anti-snoring products that we've tried, with our comments based on actual use in controlled studies over the past few years. You may find them to be very useful, or like us you may experience varying levels of success.
We do want you to know that these products are good, from reputable sources, and if used properly, they may help reduce your snoring. Of course, if anything we've tried over the past 5+ years had worked for us, we would never have invested the time, effort and money to develop the SnorEnder. __________
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