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What Are Some Awesome Ear Plugs [my roommate is still terrible]
INeedNoSalt
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So after getting zero sleep last night because my roommate got a phone call in the middle of the night and subsequently bitched about my snoring (and, apparently, stayed up texting and making sure that any time I started to fall asleep, to wake me up again), I've decided to get some ear plugs so that I just don't hear him trying to wake me up.
What are some decent ear plugs, ideally ones that won't make me deaf and I can wear through the night while I am unconscious?
Also, I'm pretty sure I need to go tell him to stop waking me up, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
Input on either topic is appreciated!
What are some decent ear plugs, ideally ones that won't make me deaf and I can wear through the night while I am unconscious?
Also, I'm pretty sure I need to go tell him to stop waking me up, but I'm not sure how to go about it.
Input on either topic is appreciated!
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"Dude. Stop waking me up."
I'm expecting a "Stop snoring" and I'm not really certain what my rebuttal is to that.
Besides "I can't."
See, your roommate will simply escalate the situation, if you don't wake up (ie: stop snoring/whatever) than he'll probably resort to either
A) Shaking you awake or something akin to that.
or
C) (unlikely but possible) Confronting you about it.
You should probably skip directly to C
edit: Also, saying you can't is pretty accurate. Do you sleep in the same room as him? I've heard loud snoring before but never anything a closed door can't solve.
But go to your pharmacy and look through their sleep aide sections. You're probably going to come across your typical in-ear ear plugs. They're uncomfortable until you get used to them.
My advice is to be tactful but firm in relaying to him that shit like that ain't kosher.
It's one room, yeah.
Anyway, I'm going to head back to my room in a minute here and when I get there I think I'm just going to inform him straight up that if he can't sleep at night, he needs to get some ear plugs or take some nyquil because it's pretty retarded for my sleep to depend on whether or not he's getting any.
Our drier makes the worst noise that reverberates throughout the entire house, and one of my roommates likes to dry his laundry at 1AM. I just go and turn the drier off as I go to bed. If he turns it back on, I go back down and turn it off. By then he's usually asleep, and he wakes up to wet clothes. The silly goose.
As far as ear plugs, this has been mentioned in a variety of other threads: the simple cylindrical foam ones you can buy from CVS are comfortable, effective, safe, and cheap.
"You need to stop waking me up"
"Can you stop snoring so much"
"Not really no"
"Then I can't sleep"
"Then you can buy some earplugs or take some nyquil before you sleep, it doesn't do either of us any good if we both don't sleep"
if so, simply side sleep or sleep on your stomach. It will eliminate your snoring.
Also, if your snoring is REALLY bad, it's likely a symptom of sleep apnea, and you should have that checked out.
I usually sleep on my back, but not always.
I know I'm not helping you get ear plugs, but I AM helping you fix your snoring
He ended up going to a doctor after he got a girlfriend and she refused to stay the night with him. I don't know what he did but it was fixed without surgery.
No, thanatos, that's bad, he'll get addicted.
I'd follow that first.
Keep in mind, snoring can lead to other complications so trying to address it is a good idea regardless of your dumbass roommate.
WebMD says that will only make him snore more.
I see, yeah that makes sense.
he was able to put up with whatever snoring i've been putting out for months before he resorted to this ridiculous "wake salt up every time he inhales" approach
That's possible, but much more likely is that it's been bothering him this long, he's let it fester instead of confronting you like an adult, and now he can't take it anymore.
Is he being a douche for approaching it like this? Yes. Are you being a silly goose for getting so upset with him without realizing how annoying snoring can be nor how loud you in particular snore? Yes.
Compromise is the way to go here. You get the nasal strips and try sleeping on your side or stomach, as you've indicated you will, and he needs to be understanding (or even helpful) while you fix the snoring issue.
Really, this is just another situation that could have been avoided, and now could be mitigated, if people came right out and communicated civily when there was an issue.
That doesn't really matter. Maybe he is stressed these days, or has developed a health problem, and his sleep is being negatively affected as a result. So while he may have put up with your snoring in the past, he no longer can.
This does not mean you should not work on reducing/eliminating your snoring. You should do it for your own sake even if you don't care about your roommate.
Yeah, do this.
Even if you can't actually resolve it, you'll both sleep better by not hating one another.
I don't know how you haven't resorted to curb stomping him. Maybe you're a rational human-being.
like each go in 10 bucks and get a big box of them. The Triple flange ones are pretty comfy too, but they let more ambient sound in so ymmv.
If not, can you guys apply to swap rooms/roommates somehow? If neither of you can get sleep with the other there, it's a problem.
Roommates can fucking suck sometimes.
But yes, sleeping on your stomach or side should help. Plugging your ears isn't going to stop your roomie from waking you up.
Wasn't your last thread about the roommate who went out all night and then slept all day and you didn't want to feel like you had to be quiet at 2 in the afternoon?
Also, if the roles were reversed, and your roommate made a thread about your snoring everyone would be replying 'Be an adult and talk to him about it.' Which is essentially what your roommate is doing, just not in the nicest of ways. He's not being a douche at this point that I can see.
You need to try to find ways of controlling your snoring. Try those strips, and antihistamines like mentioned earlier. I love sleeping on my stomach, maybe it'll work to help your snoring and you'll find it comfortable too? Your roommate also needs to pick up some comfortable ear plugs and maybe you could both chip in to get a fan so that white noise helps both of you be less irritable by noise.
I have a fan; roommate bitches if I keep it on over night.
It's not super loud, but I like it because it means I don't have to listen to his sleep-noises ... he disagrees, obviously.
-Sleep on your side or stomach, especially if you're like me and a deep sleeper, overweight and snore like a chainsaw
-Try the nasal strips if you're sure your snoring is originating in your nasal cavity, they can help...sometimes.
-Make sure to brush your teeth/mouthwash when you go to bed, I find my snoring is much much worse if I don't do this before I go to bed.
-Make sure you limit the amount of food you eat at least 2 hours before you go to bed. I find that if I eat a heavy/greasy meal before I crash for the night, the next morning my snoring can get so bad I'll wake up all tired with a brutally sore throat.
Of course this all comes down to weight for the most part. If you're overweight, even slightly, losing weight will reduce your snoring in the long run.
As for your roommate now, I completely sympathize with you, I had an exact same situation only mine ended up with me moving out rather hastily after he woke me up one night at 3am sitting at the foot of my bed with his Berretta M9 sitting on his lap....
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
I....is he Korean? Korea's #1 deathtrap are fans left on over night, true story.
On to the issue at hand. I'm going to say that I liked the idea of you both just using earplugs. Why not start there instead of buying drugs or anti-snore nose strips. Those are pretty useless on most people anyway according to what I hear.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
Holy crap, you learn something new every day. That sounds like such a "We don't really know what killed this person so we're blaming a fan" scape goat. The fan 'chops' up oxygen molecules leaving them unbreathable, wtf?
1) Go out and get several of the aids people have spoken about in this thread. Anti-histamines, nose flaps, special pillows, etc.
2) Get earplugs.
3) Have a fucking adult conversation with your roommate. Tell him you understand that your snoring is an issue, but that you have no conscious control over it. The only thing you can do is try to alleviate the situation using some sort of aid or medicine. There's no way for you to learn how to stop snoring.
4) Tell him that you will be trying every possible solution you can find, and hopefully something will stick.
5) Until you find a solution that works, you are happy to provide him earplugs so that he can sleep.
6) But that in the meantime, it is unacceptable that he resort to waking you up whenever you are about to fall asleep.
7) If he can't deal with earplugs for some reason, then he needs to also be a fucking adult and figure out how he can sleep a night with the snoring going on. Possible solutions include: using earphones and listening to music, leaving the TV on, having some sort of "white noise" going on in the background, finding another place to live.
Seriously, you guys need to grow up. If you can't afford your own room, then this is the shit you have to deal with.
Protip: It's superstition and silly gooseyness. But they have some nice theories about vortexes of death that creates vacuum and hypothermia. Various people in high position takes it seriously for whatever reason and there are laws that fans must come with a built in switch-off timer.
Let's not dwell anymore on stoopid furriners