sleepwalking - Page 2

littlemo · 06-10-2003, 12:38

usually you wake up in a different place! or someone else tells you the next day!

Tealeaf · 06-10-2003, 12:46

Oh dear. I think I might be in serious trouble then.

HarryX · 06-10-2003, 12:54

Lots of sleeplabs in america.. Hardly any here.. the nearest one to Accy is indeed in Manchester.. But its a long process before you get to that... Scans and Nuerologists ect

Caz · 06-10-2003, 17:48

No cataplexy, littlemo.
What you describe is pretty much it, apart from knowing I'm awake and not dreaming. the paralysis on its own would not seem so bad, if it weren't for the strange feelings, which are so often of a presence somewhere.
Seems this is a pretty common part of the condition.  

littlemo · 07-10-2003, 01:08

If you where over here you'd be getting investigated for narcolopsy. Basically it's a serious of naps we do during the day. Narcolopsy is basically your sleep cycle in reverse, REM comes at the begining not the end if this occurs 2 out 5 short naps then you would be diagnosed with the condition. What your decribing (sleep paralysis) is easy to brush off as something in your head so to speak when it isn't!

Dizzy D · 07-10-2003, 07:05

Gosh, i feel really lucky!  All i do is sleep talk.  I once woke up with that sleep paralysis a long time ago but it has never nappened again.

Caz · 07-10-2003, 08:15

Was the Narcolepsy bit for me littlemo?

Never had any problems with sudden urges to sleep.

Waste of time talking to my doctor about anything like that.
He'll try and fob you off about anything as long as he can. Have some other health issues which aren't being dealt with properly, so no hope with that. "Lots of people get that at some stage" is all I get.
In the process of trying to find a new GP though, so who knows!

HarryX · 07-10-2003, 10:12

cazzer I know what you mean.. Seems to me most doctors main priority is how quick they can get you out the room and the next body in.. This is also true for specialists in my experience and from what others tell me

lettie · 07-10-2003, 10:17

:-/  Sleep problems in general are not dealt with very well in this country, and it is sooooo important, had one or two chats with littlemo about this via messenger. I reckon most GP's don't take this seriously, they just give you sleeping tablets and hope for the best. :

HarryX · 07-10-2003, 10:19

Narcolepsy can hardly be described as a series of naps during the day

 Arn't there cases of people sleeping for days, weeks and months on end?   Isn' it a very dangerous condition where you ahve absoloutly no control and simply fall asleep.. this can be right in the middle of somehting....can last a minute or two or be a lot worse

Its not a case of feeling sleepy enough to ahve a nap during the day.

littlemo · 07-10-2003, 15:06

no Harry, what I was referring to is the way we can confirm it, if cazzer was over here and show signs of sleep paralysis, whe would be getting checked out for narcolepsy and what I was decribing was the process that we would take

Mik Dickinson · 07-10-2003, 19:03

Wow i must admit this has really opened my eyes on this subject.No pun intended.Really interesting is this subject.I did not realise that it was so closely researched

littlemo · 07-10-2003, 19:42

oohhhhhhhh yeah! anymore questions?!! have only been in the field for a couple of years but am addicted to it! Only problem is while i'm staying up all night investigating people for thier sleep problems, am ironically creating my own!

ANNE · 07-10-2003, 20:40

I once slept the clock round. Even heard the ice cream van and thought i was dreaming. I have never lived it down. I have trouble getting to sleep and trouble getting up once i am.

ANNE · 07-10-2003, 20:43

Our daughter not only used to talk in her sleep but fight in her sleep with fists proper flying.
She even once washed her hair while sleep walking.