O/T ramble

Oh hun this must be awful for you, i can only imagine it gets worse in times of stress? so maybe doing what you can to limit that (ha yea right) would be a start? go to bed feeling relaxed.

I really would strongly recomend going back to the doc and dont take no for an answer, this could be a potentialy life threatening situation, and is obviously extremely distressing for you at the very least.

x

Oh you poor thing, it sounds really upsetting, I can't really offer any advice but didn't just want to R&R. Is it worth speaking to your GP about it? I know you said you've suffered it for years but this episode seems to have been very different so it maybe he could refer you to a sleep clinic to see what's triggered the change?

I too was going to suggest a sleep clinic.........you must! Dont want you get arrested for dancing down the street in your jammies!

I have thought about a sleep clinic but I don't do it often enough now. I have maybe only done it two three times in the last 6 months as it has dramatically improved since I moved in with my OH.

Yep, it does seem to be worse when I'm stressed so I'm thinking it's all related to OH's redundancy but am more worried about how it will affect him than the fact that he hasn't got a job.

Thanks for the replies. I thought everyone would just think I was being OTT about it all but you're right, it is distressing and this weeks time was so strange. My doctor is a waste of time. He wouldn't even refer me to a breast clinic when I had a cancer scare earlier in the year. He just told me I was young and therefore I'd be ok. I went private in the end and thank god everything was ok but if he wouldn't refer me for something that serious I suspect he would laugh me out of his surgery. I need to change...

FFS. He should be struck off the register!!! I would have sincerly complained about that attitude. Yes, treatments/check ups all cost money but thats why we pay frickin taxes!!! He had no right to say 'you're young blah blah blah' Get a new doctor bloody quick!

I agree with the others, maybe try and get a referral to a sleep clinic. Sleep walking can be really dangerous and if they ignore it they are putting you at risk. I sleep-talk and have done since I was little. Apparantly I sit up and have perfectly coherent conversations with people that I then know nothing about when I wake up. OH thinks it's funny but waking up and not remembering whole conversations can be really disturbing so I have every sympathy for you ?

I know. I really should have complained but at the time I had so much else on my mind as you can imagine. I asked him what he thought it was and he said he didn't know but I was young and therefore it wouldn't be cancer! Luckily I do have private healthcare of sorts so he referred me to that but only under duress. He tried telling me it was down to my pill but I went to the family planning centre who told me there was no way it was anything to do with that and to get a mamogram (sp) done. I ended up having an ultrasound within two weeks privately which confirmed everything was fine. Anyway, I digress.

Oh sorry to hear your feeling down.

My daughter who is 7 years old has been sleepwalking now for about 3 years, we put stair gates on top and bottom of stairs but she has now perfected opening these, we have to lock our door keys away so she can't get to them and we also have a baby monitor in her room so we can hear her. She says she can never remember doing it in the morning but I can tell at the time she is frustrated cos she makes no sense and we can never understand her, the first time she did it I thought she was just being silly and actually tried to wake her up, she was sitting on the loo and my OH said she was sleep walking but I said how can she be if she's doing a pee.

As the parent of a sleepwalker I find it quite disturbing watching her so I can only imagine how it feels to actually be the one doing it, hope you feel better about things soon x

When I was younger my sleepwalking would always be because I needed a wee in the night but couldn't wake myself up properly. If anyone asked me what I was doing I would always shout at them that I was 'going to the toilet' then storm off to the bathroom. I couldn't remember it when I was about her age either; it's only since I've got older that I do remember it more.

It must be so frightening for the person watching as well. From what my parents said, I used to have a real glazed expression in my eyes, almost like I was looking straight through them. You have my sympathies back! x

Yeah I think it is 9 times out of 10 the fact that she needs a wee.

That's the thing that I never understood is that she does have her eyes open, I suppose you just assume the eyes would be closed, she also shouts at us alot when we question her. Alot of the time now we don't bother even getting up, just listen from bed to make sure she's been and went back to bed, it's only been a few times that's she's ventured downstairs but usually just goes down then back up to bed.

The world of a sleep walker, very bizarre at times x

I agree with tee hee, I would find another doctor and you never know they may be able to suggest something to help you or they may refer you to a specialist. You mentioned you don't do it often only when your stressed well the other night seems to be causing you distress which may lead to more distubed nights.

Hope this helps.

Sounds exactly the same as me. I think it's just a frustration thing as now I am with it more, when people talk to me I try and talk but realise I don't know what I am doing / can't explain it / realise I am sleepwalking and can't wake up. I really feel for her and hope she's lucky enough to grow out of it!!

Perhaps I will talk to the doctor about it. I feel so tired I came home and cried and that's just not me.

Thanks for all your replies...

Good point, well made!

Rae I feel your pain - I would try for the Sleep Clinic and see how you get on.

I sleepwalk from time to time but I've never done anything dangerous or left the house. I don't even remember all the times I do it. I'm sure on Sunday night I must have gone through to the living room and put the light on cos when I got up in the morning the light was still on - its on a timer and goes off on its own and OH said he didn't put it back on so I can only assume it was me which is 100% possible.

I can compleatly u derstand what you're going though. I've always suffered from sleepwalking but as i've gotten older it's turned more into sleep actions than getting out of bed and walking around. i suffer a lot from night terrors now. My OH knows when i'm about to have one and pins me down beofre i can hurt myself. They're normally about spiders so i jump out of bed so fast i run into things or hurt my bad knee. i've even punched my OH cos he tried to restrain me to stop me hurting myself.

the other night i had a night terror that a strange man was pinning me down. My OH actually then pinned me down which made me hide under the duvet because i came round enough to actually see his face but i didnt recognise him. it took me 30mins to fully come round and realise it was him. After a few mins i knew i should know him and i could trust him but i didnt know his name for half an hour. Scared the living daylight out of me that i could get like that

My god K Jackson, that must be awful. Have you ever been to see anyone about it yourself?

Never bothered because it'd sod's law that the night i stay in a sleep clinic is the night i sleep through the whole night. it only happens about once or twice a week and my OH is so used to it now that he knows how to cope with anything i do

This is my thinking...

But once or twice a week? That must be really nasty. I thought once a month or so for walks was bad enough...

They're not always bad. sometimes i just see things that i try to explain to my OH and then realise he doesnt understand so go back to sleep. even when it is bad, they tend to be mild because OH catches me in time so 5 mins later i'm asleep again. it's just if he hasnt come to bed yet and i have one that i'm up for ages. if i'm caught b4 it gets too bad and reassured i don't have time to panic but if he doesnt get there in time my body gets such an adrenalin rush it takes forever to get back to sleep

Hey Raef...

Cancer scare? Shyte - didn't know about that ....

Sleepwalking - sounds pants. Not sure if this would help but have you thought about something like reiki or acupuncture or another comp therapy to try to reduce the sleepwalking - no idea if that sort of thing can be helped with comp therapies but ...

How you doing otherwise ?

xxx

Hey Mrs SP

Have sent you a fb message with some more info. But wasn't exactly the highlight of my year last year!

Never actually thought about comp therapies for that but may be worth looking in to. Am thinking a nice massage would probably help at the moment!

Am ok though - you? xx