Sleep Disorder
 

I sleep-walk and sleep-talk. I had such a vivid dream last night that I thought it had actually occurred and I acted on it. I also think I acted on it while I was dreaming it and it worries me because I was alone. Anything can happen when you are walking and dreaming. Ok I am calling a doctor, now.

I am tired of waking up with what I did to my face in my sleep. A couple of weeks ago I had a series of dreams that included rubbing off the top of my nose until it was scratched and bled. For two nights consecutively, I spent the time rubbing just underneath my eyebrows on the bridge of my nose...causing damage that looked like someone beat me. I also woke up with a blackened eye and still can't fathom how I manage to do this alone and sleeping. This is getting dangerous.

Last night I woke to check on someone that wasn't there and went back to bed. I thought it had actually occurred and they were there but they were not. I was walking and f'ing talking is what I was doing. This has to stop. What can happen dependent on what I am dreaming at the time? Some crazy, crazy stuff. Ok. I'm calling someone, this is just wrong.

This has happened before, but there was something about the therapy and sleeping with my husband that made it go away entirely. Now it's back, big time. Fuck.

You think that's bad?

I woke up this morning at 4:45 with an REO speedwagon song in my head....and the smell of baked beans wafting about.

and I dont get up until 7am!

Uuhhh.......

At least you didn't Build This City On Rock and Roll!!

lol!!

On that, someone played a joke on me and gave me a cd for Christmas, and I thought it was sweet. It was that song burned 10 times. :(

Bad.....That guy needs a spanking. :)


I made some calls about the sleep issue. Now I am just waiting for calls in return. This being New Mexico, it could take awhile. ;)

I apologize for bleeding on the board but this is driving me mad!! My old therapist called me "gifted". I can't wait to see what the new one says. Can one of them have what it takes to say, Yah you are f'ed? I always try to get a diagnosis but these people are like, "wow that's cool"....I don't need compliments I need help with this. I worry about my puppy. I don't like to worry about my puppy.

If dreams really are the subconsious' way of sorting out the stresses in your waking life, then it's probably reasonably easy to explain why you're having these dreams and behaviours at this time in your life.

I think it's a good idea to go and have a chat with a doc though. Maybe hypnotherapy could help?

My mum's best friend is a classic for doing strange stuff when she's asleep.

The most dangerous thing she has done over the last couple of years is to get up and make herself pasta and then eat it...all in her sleep.

She left the stove on and there were bits of sauce and pasta on it. Could have caused a house fire. fortunately it didn't.

I know why. I just want it fixed. How to fix it is the question....And fix it permanantly this time....

I do things I am unaware of. That is enough for me.

Hmmm...sometimes I wish I was unaware of things I've done.

My dad tried to climb out their (second story) bedroom window once. Mom moved all the furniture in front of the windows.

I don't know what you do to help sleepwalking, but I hope you find relief. It's a scary thing.

have you tried marijuana?

@ Ali...Yah. lol! But the reality of it is scary.


I have nightmares and living in one f'ing sucks. It also scares the hell out of others. I have done some crazy stuff in my sleep...Some of it was benign, and some things were dangerous. But the amount of self-inflicted injuries lately scares the hell out of me.

I don't hate myself or anything, I think I'm dreaming about someone or something else and the harm falls on me.....That's just crazy!!!

Woo!! We have a nutter on our hands! ;)

You mean, like, in the last couple hours? :lol:

lol! No. There's enough crazy here without magnifying it. lol!!

http://www.crescentlife.com/disorders/sleepwalking.htm

Some suggestions, short of drugs there's hypnosis...and of course making your environment as safe as possible. Does your roomie know and keep an eye out?

I went to hypnotherapy and it didn't work. They referred me to another lady...


Thanks Shaw I'll check it out!

Good luck Cicero. That has got to be a really scary situation. I hope you find something that works.

Back many years ago when I was roommates with this one guy, he warned me that he would sleepwalk at times. With him, the best thing to do was to simply ask him a question when he was doing it, and that would usually cause him to snap out of it and wake up, or go back to bed. Like if it was 2AM and he was moving furniture around or something, you just say "Why did you move the couch over there?" And he'd realize he had no reason to do what he was doing and he would stop. Usually would mutter "Fuck you" in a sly way and go back to bed.

HEY! snapperhead! Where are my dumbells?!

Try taking creatine before bedtime. It can't hurt - follow the directions.

It did wonders for my sleep and that wasn't even the reason I was taking it.

I'll look into it. Thanks!

Update: I'm actually going to therapy today!!! :)

For your somnambulism? Let me know what happens, Miss Sleepy-Walky. :)

I'm sleeeep-walkin?!?

hahah I was going to link to that song!
Actually by these guys though

Get referred to a sleep clinic.
I have no idea how that works in the US - I assume you have to pay for it.

Hre, if it is affecting your waking life you can get referred by your GP. It's something that HM was always trying to get me to do, but I felt the poor man (my GP) was handling enough of my problems already. Now I kinda wish I had, as I'm in the safest place on earth (my parents') and my sleep issues are not improving.

I've put the latest in another thread. Or I will, when I find it! This is future posting, a time travel I am currently experimenting with.

Yeah. That's what happened today. We are going forward with therapy but I am also supposed to go to a GP and let them know, to possibly be referred to the sleep clinic. I don't want to take meds. and luckily the therapist understands. I told her that doing drugs was topical and that I wanted to fix the nature of the problem. I'm glad she understood. But yah, in the future I might be at the sleep clinic.

It's scary when you can't believe yourself, or know what is going to happen next.


She started saying that there might be a drug to fix it because I might have problems with my inhibitor. I said no to drugs. ;) Just say no!

I bet I am the opposite of her other clients. Put me on sleep meds? Hell no.

Cic, what physical exercise do you get?

I was taking Ambien for a while when I was recovering from my double compound fracture...it was the only way I could sleep. Trouble was, it made me never want to get up. I too would stay away from sleep meds, though I imagine for some people it's the only way to let the body rest.

I walk a lot. My job is really physical, an I have started running. I was just talking about that in the exercise thread.

She has a neurofeedback machine. We are going to play with it. It's supposed to work for ADHD and other sruff. And It maps my brainwaves. Of course just because it looks fun doesn't mean it will work.

The running sounds good. Have you noticed any difference in your sleep patterns since you started that?

I don't know. I have a really hard time sleeping when I run. All the jostling keeps waking me up.


;)

No monster not really. I am running harder today with my pup because I was surprisingly not effected the last time, and my muscles didn't hurt when I was done. I'm in better shape than I had imagined..

The therapist thinks the running is good as well....just in general of course.

That's the other thing. What if I start sleep running?!? lol!! That would suck.

This is the update: My insurance provider can cover the visits so I don't have to pay out of pocket! I was worried about financial problems and fitting this in, so this is awesome news today!! This will be the first time I haven't had to pay for therapy out of pocket! So I have happily filled out all the preliminary forms that were tedious and not well-worded...but i am happy to do it!

Fantastic. Just fantastic. :)

If you haven't noticed, this a thread for me to work things out in my own mind with it. Thank you for your suggestions and joining in! I mean where else can I say: Holy shit I am sleepwalking again!?! Fu**.

I wish I had really good dreams, then the sleepwalking might not be so bad.....;) lol!! Sex Dreams? Gimme...

I'm glad I don't have many flying dreams or I could be really f'ed. lol! Is that cicero on the roof with her arms spread?!? lol!

Thanks for listening. I don't wanna be a boob but things got alarming. :)

I don't want to worry about this anymore on top of all the other whatever going on. This is a huge relief! Uuuh thank you for your patience. :)

I'm glad that you're getting the help you need on your insurance - that's great news! I hope it works out for you!

Alright! My frontal lobe has been fed frequencies......

I think she screwed up.

what???

shhhhh...I think she's sleep typing. :eek:

Well lets see....

We were doing my first session of feedback. I received an overdose because my frontal lobe frequency mapped at a 10, when it naturally rests at a 5. The problem with this? It was shot back a frequency over 10, because people like my therapist don't understand that it takes probably more than 2 seconds to judge the actual frequency of a frontal lobe.

I was overdosed. I assumed that this would not happen. I was wrong.

I am a little disappointed, because it has taken 2 days to get over the headache and a fever- trying to work.

The only thing I can think of in comparison is the movie- eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

I think I screwed up. This was a bad decision. Though this type of therapy works for some...I am unsure as to how long it will take to get over an overdose of this. I am used to high functioning, especially at work, and when I see myself slipping I want to f'ing cry.

Yah-wah. :)

I'll get over it.

But I think if there was any question as to whether or not I was living in an uncomfortable indi flick- it has been answered. Now all that is missing is some comedic relief. Enter stage left. lol

I'd love to live in an indie flick; in fact I think I kind of do. :)

What the heck are they shooting into your frontal lobe? Hmmmm. I don't know anything about this therapy but it sounds scary to me. I don't want someone messing around in my brain.

Hang in there chickie-poo.

Low level frequencies........Maybe I need to call on wolf...Of course I know she is tired of dealing with mental shit.....

Wolf!

What can I expect to happen here? I don't trust the therapist to answer this anymore.

Well, as the saying goes, this stuff is outside my scope of practice ...

I've known a couple of people with sleep disorders, have one or two patients with really bizarre dreams/nighttime hallucinations, but it's not something that we deal with a whole lot.

One thing I strongly suspect is that your therapist is engaging in some expensive voodoo, with a fancy box with some pretty lights, and maybe a digital readout or two. They're not going to let anybody without an M.D. or D.O. behind their name play with anything real.

I hope you're not paying out of pocket for that bit ... because it certainly doesn't sound like anything an insurance company would pay for, not the kinds of insurance companies I deal with, anyway.

Can you get some more details about the device? Maybe we can find out a thing or two.

What I suspect may be a lot more helpful is going to the sleep disorders clinic, getting a sleep study done, and some EEGs. Yeah, they'll probably start with something on the order of "here's a prescription," but hopefully the doc will have a brain behind his/her pen and prescription pad, and address the causes rather than the symptoms.

In the meantime, working on relaxation techniques might be a good approach.

Maybe we can give her some old fashion ECT. I use to be involved in that as recently as the mid 90's. I don't think they do it much anymore, do they?

Cic, go to a real doctor ffs.

Not much, but it's still acceptable in cases of severe depression or catatonia.

THere is at least one doc in our area that does ECT. Sometimes our docs will refer recalcitrant depressives. One of my friends was a psych nurse that assisted on ECT, back on the 70s and 80s. Today they're using even less current with good effects.

His wife was also a psych nurse in the "olden days" and knows how to do a cold pack and has assisted with insulin shock as well.

It's more than a bit drastic for this situation.

Yea, I've never heard of it being used for anything other than severe clinical depression. I was funning.

Back in the day it was used for darn near everything. Schizophrenia, Depression, probably even extreme halitosis, just in case.

I expected there was some fun involved, but sometimes it's hard to tell, especially since that kind of hard reset might even represent a solution.

I do remember a small set of patients actually waking up nearly euphoric. Strange. Most just slept, but that could have been from the massive dose of pentothal.

I hope everything works out cic. This sleepwalking seems really scary.

I know there was some kind of anti-depressant that induced this kind of thing. You're not taking that I hope although it would make the problem more fixable.

good luck ! :fingerx: