Snoring

The specialist says my snoring is caused by a two-factor collapse of the soft palate, both dimensions being genetic.

The only effective management is to use a splint, and it has to be a proper, fitted splint AND I’d have to have palette surgery but the recovery is apparently awful, so he recommends leaving it unless things get much worse. At the moment my sleep data suggests it isn’t too bad.

He also advised not to gain weight. I don’t intend to, but he noted there’s a hysteresis effect: fat in the palate is the last to come off when losing weight, so snoring doesn’t necessarily improve in step with weight loss.

Unfortunately I’m in the bracket of snorers for whom there’s no simple fix. He called it the high hanging fruit, funny fucker.