Showing posts with label snoring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snoring. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 June 2011

Snore Reducing Aids - snoring, stop snoring


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Before wearing this mouthpiece, I would snore rather loud (according to my wife). It did not matter if I was on my stomach, back, or side. I had spent several hundred dollars for a sleep study and to buy a CPAP machine, since I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. The CPAP maching stopped my snoring and helped with my sleep apnea. However, I would swallow air while using the CPAP and wake up with severe abdominal pain. The people at the sleep center refused to turn down the pressure in an attempt to fix this. After over a month of not being able to get a decent night's sleep, I decided to quit using the CPAP. However, I needed to find a solution.



I was skeptical that a mouthpiece would work, so I spoke with my dental hygenist if a mouthpiece could really help stop snoring and help with sleep apnea (my dentist was out of the office). She told me that I could spend nearly $1,000 on a custom fit mouthpiece designed to reduce snoring, but she did not know if it would help with sleep apnea. She admitted that insurance rarely covers such a device, and an over-the-counter device may produce the same result. I was concerned that an over-the-counter mouthpiece may damage my teeth or jaw alignment. She assured me that it would not be harmful, but I might experience some discomfort and jaw pain. She also told me that these types of devices usually work.



I bought the mouthpiece online. When it arrived, it looked rather small. I was still skeptical that it would fit or work. I went ahead and boiled the water and performed the fit per the instructions. Part of the mouthpiece did become somewhat malformed, so I had to re-fit it a second time.



During the first night of wearing the mouthpiece, I immediately noticed that I could breath more easily, and my snoring was eliminated. Since then, however, on some nights, my mouth opens wide enough so that my lower jaw falls out of the mouthpiece. When this happens, I start snoring so that I am rudely awakened by my wife. I am contemplating using a chin strap to prevent this in the future.



I have noticed that my jaw is sometimes a little sore in the morning. The soreness goes away shortly after I have been up and about, so it is just a minor annoyance. Overall, this mouthpiece has been absolutely fabulous.



I would really like to have another sleep study performed with the mouthpiece to see if it is effective for sleep apnea. If anyone reading this has had a sleep study performed using this or a similar mouthpiece, please comment to let us know if this is effective against sleep apnea. My breathing seems to be better, but it would be nice to at least have some medical evidence to back it up.

Received it quickly from Amazon. I was skeptical whether it will work or not, it does work. Here is what I did, a) I boiled the water b) Let it cool for couple of seconds c)Use the wooden stick to put the device in the water for few seconds d) Put the device in the mouth with lower and upper jaw aligned e) Blow air out, push device with your tongue and push in with your hands f) Bite the device but do not bite through the device.

Maybe I have a small mouth, but after I shaped it exactly the way they said i should it was still too big. I'd lay there at night thinking that I was going to stop breathing because it was so large that it would cut off my airway. The concept is good, but execution was poor.

I figured six bucks wasn't a big price to pay for something that might allow me to take a break from my CPAP machine. I knew that if it didn't work, I would be disappointed, but not financially destitute.



As it turns out, I've been using this thing for the last three nights and it seems to be working as a great alternative to my CPAP machine. I may invest in a chin strap as the mouth piece does sometimes become dislodged in my sleep, but the fitting was pretty easy (with instructions in broken English provided for extra hilarity).



If you've wondered if this kind of treatment might work for you, I recommend this (the cheapest mouth piece of its kind that I'd found) before spending big money on similar implements. If it does work, you may find a professionally fit upgrade to be completely worth it. But this is a good place to test the waters, so to speak.

It's too lose around my lower jaw. Upon re-heating I believe it is softer and won't hold the teeth together. Fortunately I didn't waste a lot of money on it. But it's really hard to get the right mold. If you can, I really see how this helps so many. I wish I could get it to work. My snoring is annoying.

I bought two of these, thinking they were different products as there was such a big disparity in price. They are EXACTLY the same and even when you soften them up, they are still like a big rock in your mouth and hard on my teeth. Too difficult to use, so one sits unopened and one is just sitting. I know there is a 30 day money back guarantee, but I started a new job and didnt have the time to work on it, so ....ayone want to buy the one still in plastic? lol...... - Snoring - Stop Snoring - Anti Snore Device - Snore Stopper
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Thursday, 16 June 2011

Sleep Apnea - apnea, sleep aid


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I bought the Snore-Stopper for my husband. Frankly, the noise was very disturbing. This product is amazing. We followed the simple instructions for fitting the oral mouthpiece to his mouth. The results are really gratifying for both of us. It seems to work by moving the lower jaw forward.

There was a dramatic decrease in his snoring . He keeps the device in all night without difficulty, and also reports a decrease in his usual daytime fatigue. I'm really glad we tried this device,he and I sleep much better with it.

This device works and works well. I am a soft pallete snorer and my snoring has been getting worse the last several months. This mouthpeice has done the trick. By the third night my husband reports, my snoring stopped completely. I also wake up in the morning feeling great without my usual headaches. There is some discomfort in the begining, therefor I would recommend you gradually increase the time wearing from a few hours to overnight. This an amazing product and well worth the price. I wish I had ordered it years ago.

I haven't tried this exact product yet, but due to a snafu this year with my "flexible spending account," I did end up with $1200 I was going to lose, so I sprung for a "professional" anti-snoring appliance. The "pro" ones consist of two hard plastic "tooth pieces" molded respectively to fit your upper and lower teeth and a pair of rubber straps that connect the two pieces. Your dentist creates soft reverse molds of your upper and lower teeth and sends them to a technician, who creates plaster molds of the upper and lower teeth and then creates reverse molds (again) out of hard-ish plastic. These reverse molds snap (at least in my case) *very* firmly onto your teeth. The rubber straps come in different strengths. The object of the appliance is to hold your jaw open and forward to whatever extent is comfortable, safe, and required to keep your soft palate from flapping in your respiratory breeze. Most of you will already know this much, but you might not know this other stuff....



The "pro" appliances could, I imagine, be pretty comfortable if they are done precisely and carefully, but my sense is that most US dental offices don't do this much because at present most insurance plans don't cover them and most people won't pay over a grand for something that might or might not work. Thus, I think a lack of practice might contribute to a shortfall in the kind of virtuosity you see with crowns and other common appliances. Mine is still being fitted by the dentist who worked with me it, but it's pretty uncomfortable, is a struggle to get off my teeth and out of my mouth in the morning, and it actually causes my teeth to move around (or, strictly, I suppose you could say it prevents my teeth from moving around--same net effect--they are not where they want to be). When I wear it, my teeth don't mate with each other for a few hours the next morning, and especially my bottom teeth feel odd for up to two days. Time will tell whether this can be remedied without a total rework, but my third return visit is scheduled for next week, and of course each visit costs me a couple of hours of hassle, travel, and missed work.



I mention all of this to suggest three things. First, that spending $20-40 on a short-term custom solution like this one could be done quite a large number of times before approaching the prices of a "pro" device, so I recommend that you not be daunted by "wasting" a hundred bucks or so figuring out the right boil time, tooth position, jaw position, etc. Second, the short-term solution, it would seem, might give you a better shot at long term dental health because your teeth are able to reset their alternate anti-snoring position every few months when you replace and re-mold. And, Third: if you are, as I am, a person whose snoring is reduced or eliminated by the use of such a device, it's really quite nice to be able to e.g. wake without a headache, spend the whole night in bed with your significant other, etc---so, again, if you "waste" a hundred bucks experimenting, I think that's well worth the money.



Hope this non-review helps some of you. On the strengths of the positive reviews I see here and the cost and complexity of the weaknesses of the "pro" model, this seems like it's worth taking a run at before you jump into anything more expensive.

I have OSA, so I actually own a real medical-need issued MAD. When I lost that for a few days and was not sure when I'd get it back, I bought these as an emergency alternate.



Unlike my true MAD, this product does not split open between the upper and lower jaws. As I tend to open my mouth when sleeping, it was not effective at keeping my lower jaw advanced.



A closed mouth sleeper should get some benefits from this device if the snoring occurs in the thoat.



The procedure to customize the mouth piece was reasonably straightforward, but I was not fully prepared and so did not bite down with my lower jaw extended enough. Practice that motion a bunch of times before putting the device in the hot water and molding it.



The good thing is that this device is not very expensive. However, I suggest buying sports mouth guards at the local sports store first.



BTW, the FDA clearance that this and other similar products speak of are regarding the use of the plastic compound that make up the device. These are not FDA-approved in terms of their fuctioning as a medical device. - Apnea - Sleep Aid - Solution To Sleep Better - Snoring
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Mouth Guard - apnea, snoring


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I was in the market for a stop snoring mouthpiece and had been looking at a another brand of mouthpiece that cost twice as much as the SnoreMeds mouthpiece. I decided based on price to give the SnoreMeds mouthpiece a go. Ordering problems aside, I love this mouthpiece. It does what it says.



Molding the mouthpiece is a tiny bit tricky and I did mess mine up just a tad. I fixed it with a razor blade in about a minute. On the first night I wore it through about half the night before taking it out due to tooth pain. I put it back in for the last couple hours of sleep. The tooth pain was caused by problems in the molding process which was my fault but hard to prevent. After the first night my wife was blown away. She had trouble sleeping cause she thought I was too quiet. That I had stopped breathing because I wasn't snoring.



I've been using it now for several weeks and have grown very much used to sleeping with the device in my mouth. My teeth still hurt just a tad when I wake up but that goes away quickly. I have had no jaw pain as I have read can be common with these types of devices. I still snore every once in a great while but I'd say 90 to 95% of my snoring is gone.



One big drawback with this type of product is that it can allow me to snore. It's not really the device's fault though. About four days into this I got a cold. This made me open my mouth to breath. The mouthpiece does have an opening in it so you can breath through your mouth but when I opened wide enough my teeth would fall out of the device allowing my haw to return to it's normal position. Hence the snoring would begin. Once my cold went away I went back to breathing through my nose or my mouth but with it only slightly open.



I plan on using this for a long time to come. It's hard to price on my wife being able to sleep in the same bed as me and not cry all night because she can't sleep. I am truly happy with this mouthpiece.

If you were considering buying this product, then you know that stop snoring required moving forward your lower jaw to open up the air passage in the back of your throat.



The Snore Med requires to move the lower jaw forward passing the upper teeth, and bite down onto the mouth piece to form a guard that locks the lower jaw in a forward position. This position is an un-natural position for the lower jaw. As a result, during a sleep, the lower jaw became relax and tried to reverse back into its natural position. Since the mouth piece was locking your jaw in place using your teeth, the teeth lean hard against the mouth piece and become mobile.



I used this product for six months and have stopped using it following my dentist recommendation. My dentist found that both of my upper and lower sets of front teeth were all mobile (rocking back and forth).



After each night of wearing this product, I experienced pain and misalignment of the bites. Since there was a real benefit of stop snoring, I continued to use the product without realizing a long term negative effect to the front teeth from both upper and lower rows.



Be cautious and see a dentist after a few days of usage of this product to make sure that it is safe. There may be alternatives that a dentist can recommend which is safe and effective for your snore.

I bought this stop snoring mouthpiece last month and it has reduced my snoring considerably. I use to wake up feeling tired but now I have more energy during the day. It was easy to mold to my mouth using hot water. Once I got use to wearing it I was able to sleep through the night without any problems.

This thing works as advertised for me. One thing that is an issue - I do wake up with a bit of a stiff jaw every morning - I haven't gotten used to it with time. The stiffness goes away within a couple of hours of waking and this is a minor inconvenience & worth it for me (and mostly for my wife).

Reporting after three days use; I wanted to wait at least a week before reviewing this item, but couldn't. Was realitively simple to fit to mouth, (follow the direction to the letter), and worked first night. Wife said I had one small snore episode the first night. After that she said she doesn't remember, she was SLEEPING.

My jaw takes only about fifteen minutes to return to normal and I had very minimal discomfort in the morning, (fifteen minutes at most, both teeth and jaw).

Don't get me wrong, when you take it out in the AM, you can tell you've been wearing a mouthpiece, but the feeling goes away quickly, (at least for me).

For the price, it's definitly worth a try, (should have done it sooner).

I am so glad to have found this product. It really works for me and is definitely a quality of life improvement for me and my wife. And I am very happy with the price. If you are looking to solve your snoring problem this is a good place to start.

Couple of things about this product:

1. It is very easily molded to the shape of your mouth. You just dip it in boiling water for 12 seconds, mold it to your mouth then dip it in cold water to set it. And, the big thing about this mouth piece as compared to another that I tried is that you can re-mold it. You can give it a try for a night or for a few nights and if the fit isn't comfortable you can re-mold it. so it isn't wasted if you don't get it right the first time.

2. It works by pulling your bottom teeth (jaw) slightly forward and this is how you mold it - you pull your jaw slightly forward and set it in place. Experimenting with this forward distance is why you might need to re-mold it. And... my teeth are a little bit sore in the morning and this is from the pulling action - but it is minor and worth the quality of life improvement to myself and my wife. Defintely worth a try. - Apnea - Snoring - Stop Snore - Snore Stopper
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