What to do if your partner's snoring is wrecking your sleep: Our essential guide to what's causing the racket - and the red flags you should NEVER ignore By Judith Keeling For The Daily Mail Published: 12:03 EDT, 18 October 2024 | Updated: 13:13 EDT, 18 October 2024 e-mail 5 View comments We've all been there. Just as you're peacefully drifting off to sleep, a rattling, rasping snore from the other side of the bed jolts you wide awake. You prod your other half, to no avail.
With a forceful shove they may wake and apologise but, as soon as they drop off, the bone-rattling cacophony resumes. It's estimated that 15 million snorers in the UK regularly disturb the peace of the night – and that of their bed partners – with unwelcome noises ranging from mild snuffling to the truly thunderous. While the popular image of a middle-aged overweight male snorer holds true, in fact, many women also snore, particularly after the menopause – and almost everyone snores at some point.
Writer Judith Keeling reveals that there is plenty of lifestyle advice and gadgets to help people who snore and live with sleep apnoea The most common age is in midlife (between 30 and 60), partly as this is a time when extra weight creeps on – a major cause – or other lifestyle factors play a role (more on these later). But as well as being a source of embarrassment and domestic dispute, snoring may also spell a serious health problem. While snoring can be caused by vibrations of the tissue in the airw.