My Snoring Is Waking up My Partner. Apart From a CPAP Machine, What Are the Options?

Our respective positions on the question of snoring are, as they say about the War on Terror—asymmetric. Jenny Storm/Shutterstock

Snoring happens when the muscles and tissues that surround the upper airway (at the back of the nose to the throat region) vibrate during sleep. Snoring can disturb your bed partner’s sleep, and it can be a symptom of the most common sleep-related breathing disorder, obstructive sleep apnoea.

Untreated sleep apnoea can have major adverse health and safety consequences such as obesity, hypertension, stroke, and motor vehicle or workplace accidents.