From quiet sniffs to loud grunts, every household has someone who snores. Snoring is the sound produced when the air flows past the relaxed tissues in the throat and nose, making them vibrate and make noise when breathing. Snoring is generally more common in men,...
Chloe Chioy’s college house-share featured a dingy basement, bug-infested attic, tiny bathrooms and, perhaps worst of all, a snoring roommate. The poor chap could have “won in a noise competition against the fire alarm,” says Chioy, 21, a digital marketing coordinator who attended the University...
By this point I was imagining that I would spend the rest of my life alone on the sofa bed when, after a nearly two-year wait, I was finally given an appointment at the hospital’s sleep clinic where they promised to do what they could...
My dad was a big snorer. This may not mean that my snoring is inherited. Once, he told me, he awoke on a train to find all the other passengers cowering at the other end of the compartment because of the incredible racket he was...
What can we do for you today, asks the kind nurse at the sleep unit in a north London hospital. “Save my marriage, ideally,” I reply. I’m only exaggerating a little. My snoring means that my cat is more likely to sleep in the same...