I've been using silicone vents in my nostrils for several months, and they've made a huge impact on quality of sleep. It is a much cheaper alternative to cpaps.
Only if your snoring is caused by a deviated septum or other nasal cause.
Sleep apnea and heavy snoring more commonly is due to the tongue and jaw slacking during sleep, causing the tongue to kind of slide into the throat and obstruct your airway.
This is even worse for overweight and obese people with visceral fat making their airways physically smaller too. Then it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle as bad sleep quality and low oxygen during sleep has a host of side effects, including making weight loss and digestion a bit more difficult.
That’ll work for someone whose only or primary breathing obstruction is nasal valve collapse.
I had enough nasal valve collapse that I tried these vents but found them uncomfortable. I got the desired impact on my nasal airway from nasal strips that keep the nasal valve open, but that didn’t solved my nighttime sleep/breathing issues because I also had a very narrow airway into the back of my nose and throat due to my recessed upper and lower jaws, which I had surgery to correct about bit over a year ago
Sleep apnea and heavy snoring more commonly is due to the tongue and jaw slacking during sleep, causing the tongue to kind of slide into the throat and obstruct your airway.
This is even worse for overweight and obese people with visceral fat making their airways physically smaller too. Then it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle as bad sleep quality and low oxygen during sleep has a host of side effects, including making weight loss and digestion a bit more difficult.