Kirsteen Gardner, 39, is a nurse from Edinburgh. She received laser treatment from
Professor Kamami through The Private Clinic to control her snoring. I'VE BEEN aware of my snoring since I was a child. When I was
about ten I stayed overnight with my cousin, and she told me she had to go and sleep in
another room because I was snoring so loudly. Ever since then I've been quite
self-conscious about it.
It just got worse as I got older and I once fell asleep
on the train when I was travelling up from London to Edinburgh with a friend and, when I
woke, she told me I'd been snoring really loudly. I began to get quite paranoid about it
and, no matter how tired I was, I wouldn't allow myself to fall asleep in a car or on
public transport.
On another occasion I shared a hotel room with one of
my colleagues after a Christmas night out a few years ago, and the next morning at
breakfast she told everyone that she didn't sleep at all because I was snoring so loudly.
I laughed along with everyone else, but I was so humiliated. As a woman, I found it
particularly embarrassing, because somehow snoring just seems so unfeminine.
I was always on my guard and I was so concerned about
nodding off on a friend's couch or staying over at their house. When I have stayed with
friends or gone away on holiday with them, I've been too self-conscious to get a proper
sleep and I tended to enter a level of sleep where I woke myself up whenever I felt myself
snoring.
Housemates have even told me that they could hear me
snoring from downstairs, and when I fell asleep at a friend's house, her nine-year-old
daughter recorded my snoring on her mobile phone and played it back to me. That was so
embarrassing, and at that point I decided I really had to do something about it.
I had tried a number of different options from the
chemist, but because my problem was located in the back of my throat, none of them had
been particularly effective, so I decided to try laser treatment. The cost of the
procedure wasn't an issue, because I had got to the point where snoring was affecting my
quality of life.
After the procedure, I stopped snoring immediately and
haven't snored since. A couple of weeks later I went on a trip down to Yorkshire with a
friend. On the drive back up, I was really tired and, where before I wouldn't allow myself
to nod off, this time I went straight to sleep. When I woke up, I asked my friend if I had
snored. When she told me I hadn't, it was a fantastic feeling.
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