I’m guessing it’s from dry air god me but even with humidifier I always have to blow my nose a bunch of times in the morning. Sometimes my lungs feel tight for a while after waking up. This happen to anybody else? Why does it happen for you?
Tape your mouth when you sleep, when your body thinks it’s about to suffocate your nostrils will open right up.
Make sure your tongue is pressed up on roof of mouth right behind your top front teeth when you are awake, keeps you breathing through nose and not mouth.
Go to the gym and hit the treadmill, run as long as you can only breathing through your nose, go back everyday and increase the time by 5-15 seconds.
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This combo solved it for me and got rid of snoring.
When I started on treadmill I could only do about a minute of running without mouth breathing, now I can go as long as my legs will last. Don’t expect to be able to make it through whole night with your mouth taped, and tape verticle not horizontal, with small easy to remove tape… don’t kill yourself.Well, I want to breathe easily, I guess.
My parents do but I do not. I’m guessing we all have sleep apnea though. Definitely allergies. But, I do have a small air purifier in my room
I think it’s this one:
cool. i’ll try using the air purifier again. mine is pretty loud though. is that one pretty quiet?
It is unless you use the high setting, then it’s pretty loud. But I keep it on medium or even low
I have mild sleep apnea and a night device that improves my airways has eliminated my sinus congestion in the mornings. Talk to a dentist that specializes in sleep apnea.
So, I actually had this because of my humidifier. I was using an ultrasonic humidifier with tap water - I know distilled is recommended, but with how dry it is here, that would mean an insane amount of bottled water. But I noticed a film of white dust appearing around the room from the dispersed salts and whatnot. Turning off the humidifier (and later replacing it with an evaporative style) cleared up my daily stuffiness instantly.
The problem for me using my evaporative dehumidifier is cleaning off the minerals every week.
Yeah agreed. But I guess I’d rather do that than clean it off my walls (and lungs apparently?). Definitely recommend getting a bigger one than you need, though, so you can run the fan lower and the media takes a little longer to get crusty.
Could be a dust allergy (or rather the poo of dust mite), you could try changing your sheets more often, and vacuuming more, and especially vacuuming the headboard of your bed, even more imporantly if it’s fabric. I have found my throat closes up if I haven’t vacuumed the headboard in a long time. Once I do, my throat goes right back to normal :) Hope this helps!
Oh damn. Haven’t thought about the headboard. I’ll try that. Thanks
Sounds like allergies/asthma. I would go see an allergy clinic and get tested. If you find you have allergies you could consider getting allergy shots.
I definitely have allergies. I gotta see what options they have besides taking pills or spray
If you have allergies and don’t want pills or spray then I think you should definitely try the nasal rinse others have suggested. It literally washes the allergens out of you sinuses. I recommend a neti sprayer as I get better flushing than the pot. The one I used is similar to the one made by “tone life” if you want to search it.
yeah i have a nasal spray bottle that i’ve used in the past. i’ll try that again and see if it helps if i do it before sleep.
I recommend doing it about 30 minutes before sleep. My sinus will continue draining for a while after doing it which is harder for it to do if I’m lying down. Good luck.
In addition to other suggestions here (all good ones so far), maybe an allergy? Could be something about your pillow
Yeah I definitely have allergies. I have a foam pillow and cotton case. Maybe I need to do some deep cleaning in the room or start using an air filter.
Do you take an antihistamine? I live on Zyrtec and would be miserable if I didn’t take it daily
I do a spray sometimes but I don’t wanna take meds every day.
Why? Meds are great
I’d prefer to fix the problem instead of blocking my body’s response to the stimuli.
If your body produces too much histamine in response to cotton or something else super common like dust mites, you aren’t going to remove all of that stuff from your environment
maybe i gotta to back to my allergist for something more permanent.
