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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 11:07:34 AM
Hi girls. Been having some trouble with my husband sleep walking. Some strange stuff--I've never actually known anyone to sleepwalk, but my mom mentioned that I did as a kid, but that I grew out of it. It seems that adult sleep walking is rare.
He seems to only do it when he's worried, overtired, or overstressed. Oddly enough, the conversation revolves around him "trying to find the bathroom". He looks at me, and we're conversing coherently. Then he starts babbling with rhyming type words and sounds. It's really spooky, and I have some trouble getting him back into bed.
Does anyone know anyone or have you experienced this in your family?
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| shelle |
Posted - Feb 09 2007 : 07:25:04 AM
Aunt Jenny,
Yeah that Ambien really makes hubby act out his dreams. He took it for a few weeks until I told him he had to find something else because I was tired of being woken up in the middle of the night every night. Now he is on Restoril and it doesnt seem to affect him nearly as much. Actually he seems to talk and sleepwalk less when he is on that for some reason.
Shelle
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Feb 09 2007 : 06:32:00 AM
Oh my gosh, Jenny and Shelle--when I was doing my "research" I ran across a sleep study they did with folks taking Ambien--there was a high percentage of these people taking Ambien who started fires while sleepwalking. Of course, I'm sure that there were a number of other conflicting matters within these folks, but isn't that a little startling...
I gather what you say is true--being calm and assuring and trying to get them back to bed without incident is key. I have to be honest, I woke up to find him thinking our study was a restroom and I was pretty miffed because I didn't know WHAT the heck was going on! When we talked about it the next day, he was pretty disconcerted, and very I embarrassed. I just tried to give him a "sport center high light" of what had happened, to see if it jogged any memory, but it didn't. Just in my little experience with it, there is definitely a pattern--I mean, it may not make sense Willowtreecreek that you talk about green beans and peas, but it's interesting that you always bring them up--same thing with him and this bathroom thing. It's always been trying to find it--and helping other people find it. Maybe you'll suddenly acquire a taste for green beans 
He did mention taking Advil sinus and cold medicine that night. He had a show and the beginnings of a cold, and wanted to clear up his voice. He said he had two beers over a period of 4 hours + the cold medicine. When I went to pick him up that night, I noted that he seemed "out of it", and he remarked how exhausted he was--that he could hardly stand up.
Crazy, our minds!!!
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| Nance in France |
Posted - Feb 09 2007 : 02:58:56 AM
I have to chime in here and say that the sleepspeaking in French is amusing to me (for obvious reasons)! Sometimes my FRENCH husband talks in his sleep and it is in ENGLISH; go figure? The idea of a wire or something on the bedroom door sounds like a good one; maybe some Christmas jingle bells hung from the knob? I wish everybody safe and sound sleep tonight, me included! Nance |
| lilpunkin |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 6:47:26 PM
I haven't sleep walked but I have jumped out of my bed before. I was dreaming that the stone was being rolled away from Jesus tomb and I was jumping out of the way so the stone wouldn't roll on me. I actually stood up and jumped over the night stand next to my bed. My husband got me back in the bed and told me what I did. I didnt think that I really did it until morning when everything was all over the floor and the table knocked over. That was a phase when I was a little stressed and over tired. But I have done several other things since then, but only when I am extremly tired. I have woken up talking to myself in the mirror too. That was funny! But I find I only do those things if I am realllly tired. The ones where I sit up in bed and my husband tries to make me lay back down by gently grabbing me only make me think in my dream someone is getting me and make me scream bloody murder. Talk about freaking my husband out. Needless to say, he doesnt touch me anymore when I am having those dreams, LOL!
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 6:10:31 PM
I dont usually get angry but it has happened and one time I woke Rivhie up cause I was screaming and kicking him. Richie says I also talk about peas and greenbeans a lot. I don't really know why. I hate green beans. Sometimes I think he makes this stuff up but it seems too weird to be made up!
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 4:48:11 PM
hey Shelle..the meds my mom were on was Ambien!!!
Jenny in Utah
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| shelle |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 4:18:24 PM
Jonni,
My husband also sleep walks, talks you name it. He has done this the whole 25 years we have been married. Certain things make him worse including stress, certain sinus medications, sleeping pills (especially Ambien) and just being too tired. I cant even begin to tell you all the things he has done over the years. But once a couple of weeks ago he sat up in bed in the middle of the night and yelled fire several times. Talk about giving me a heart attack!! I convinced him that there wasnt a fire that he was dreaming and that it is ok.
The best way to handle him is to talk to him in a calm voice and reassure him that everything is ok and that he is dreaming/sleepwalking ect. The worst thing you can do is yell at him or act mad.
Shelle |
| KellyA |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 12:40:29 PM
I am a big sleepwalker...my husband wants to put a trip wire on the bedroom doorframe, because it drives him bonkers!! I have done it all my adult life, especially when I am stressed. Weird things like needing to feed the birds that are starving in the basement, or catching the baby that is falling off the windowsill! I have not left the house, or my college dorm or anyplace else, though. I do know what I am doing, even if it is weird, and get really upset when I am told to get back to bed because I am dreaming! You can't stop us, though. Just be nice to us to guide us back to bed...it makes the incident a little less embarrassing.
Kelly
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| KYgurlsrbest |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 12:27:18 PM
Wow. French! I wish he would speak french, that would be lovely! Instead, he's talking to me about finding the bathroom, "it's too dark in here", he says after he's flipped on the bright overhead light!!! "People have to be able to find the bathroom!"
This last time, it got a little weird. Has your husband ever mentioned you becoming agitated at all? He got a bit nasty when I tried to take him back to bed--he said he remember fighting "something" off. It was ME! He's done this for the last 3-4 years or so, periodically, not every night (that I know of), mostly 2-3 times a year or so. But each time, it progresses a bit--used to be just talking, now it's activity.
I've read that sleepwalkers can do most anything that they would normally do in their waking life--drive, eat--some even start fires. Great. The next morning, he was pretty beat up--he'd banged his knee and elbo but good on something, and was suffering a bit from his "wounds", but didn't remember a thing.
Have you ever seen anyone for your sleepwalking, Willowtreecreek?
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 12:04:45 PM
I Sleep walk and talk in my sleep almost EVERY night! We have to keep our bedroom door shut or I will wander all over the house. I have never tried to open a closed door so sofar going outside hasn't been a concern. My husband can have a conversation with me when I am asleep and I will talk like I know what is going on then I have no memory of it. Also my husband says I have a tendancy to SPEAK FRENCH in my sleep!!!!! I took 4 years in HS but that was OVER 10 years ago. I didn't know I could speak it that well. Mine seems worse if I have been stressed or overtired.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Feb 08 2007 : 11:36:47 AM
My mother had a real problem with this!! She was put on sleeping medication after my dad's death as she just wasn't able to sleep at all and was suffering from that..and oh my gosh!!!!! My oldest son was living at her home at the time (sort of to keep an eye on things and help her) and so he saw most of it...really bizarre stuff. It is better now (she isn't on that medication any more) but still happens to a smaller extent. He said she would wake him up and ask wierd questions and not "talk right". She also got up and ate things from the fridge..weird things...and didn't remember it. She even fell against a doorway and split her forehead open once (they could tell by blood where she fell) she woke up with a headache and didn't remember it at all..she had left a coffee cup and plum pits on the floor..dropped them no doubt..my son was out of town that time. She even flushed her false teeth down the toilet one night!! She was looking every where for them, and my sister, who was over there the next morning couldn't get the toilet to flush. She called my second son, who is a plumber over, and sure enough..they were stuck way in the pipe, but he failed to get them out in one peice..and really, would she have used them again, no matter how much they were sanitized???
It is scary..I used to worry she would eat something that would hurt her, or end up going outside..or fall worse and no one be there.
Jenny in Utah
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