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544199 tn?1285993913

Sleepwalkers?

Is there anyone out there  who sleepwalks? As you all must know it can be very difficult to sleep with so much pain. I sometimes go up to four days with just cat naps. Then the sleepwalking / sleepfalling starts up. I sometimes get hurt. I always wonder why I don't get hurt more! I guess its like the drunk driver who crashes without a scratch.
Anyway I'm looking for other sleepwalkers.
                                                              Thank you,
                                                                            Sleepfaller
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545944 tn?1227827002
SBF
Hi,
Guess either rare or folks won't talk about it, I've been under a lot of stress w/school and money and found nite lite bulb on coffee table few weeks ago.  Live alone and when I picked it up had this half-memory of (this is really weird!) putting it in my mouth!

Checked and it wasn't even burned out??  Figured at least still had sense not to eat it, then few nights ago woke up sitting on the couch w/neck killing me from head drooping over (old spinal injury MVA) so thought I'd check and see if anyone else had these kind of strange problems.  Have chronic pain that manage w/ regular tylenol and biofeedback techniques, but can't do biofeedback in sleep and sometimes take pain meds at night when know have to sleep and can't manage to w/out.

Funny, neither time I sleep walked hadn't taken anything day before or that night so doesn't seem to be meds?  I'm puzzled and if Dr. Resnik has any thoughts would be very welcome.  Take Neurontin past 15 years prevent migraines and BP/Cholesterol meds... but otherwise only vitamins, tylenol and benadryl... started L-arginine for heart few weeks ago but "bizzare light bulb" experience was before I started amino acid.
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387767 tn?1345872027
My husband does this.  He also talks and YELLS in his sleep.  It got so bad that we have to sleep in different rooms now because he was scaring the heck out of me!

My husband only sleeps a few hours at a time also.  He gets up very early, like 4 in the morning.  I tell him, try to go back to sleep, but he doesn't.  Then the next day he can't keep his eyes open at 7 p.m. so we have no evening time together.  He has medication, but it doesn't do much, he gets used to it.

I'm not the best sleeper either, the pain wakes me up.  Sometimes hubby and I bump into each other in the night, lol!
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