Sleepwalking?

[absolutuscchick]

Ok, for the past week, I have been getting up while I'm still asleep and doing things in my apartment...for example going on im, Eating, and getting ready to shower. Has anyone else ever had this happen to them or know what I can do to stop myself from sleepwalking??

[adpialumcsuc]

my brother used to sleep walk an he stopped doing it when he started living with his girlfriend. For some reason having someone else in the bed kept him from sleep walking. When she left he starting sleep walking again.

[absolutuscchick]

OK, so does anyone have a suggestion on who I should see...like doctor-wise? I would like to think that it'll just go away on its own but some of the things I'm doing in my sleep are definitely injury provoking....for example last night I fell down a flight of stairs because I was walking in my sleep and now my face has a huge scratched up and red patch on it, also last night I ate like four balance bars...some other odd things happened as well that I'm not going to post.....but if this keeps up I'm going to end up all scratched up, overweight amongst other things...

[Dionysus]

Have you started any new medications?

[alsparky]

I would suggest talking to a doctor, it may be a manifestation of stress or something else, or it could just be sleepwalking.

In the meantime you may want to consider some sort of system to warn the people you live with (assuming you live with other people). I went to a summer program with a woman who was a sleepwalker. She tied a bell to her ankle each night when she went to bed (like a sleigh bell) and asked us to wake her if we heard her walking around. It also kept others from being scared if she appeared in your room in the middle of the night.

If people hear you up and around and know that you are not awake, they can wake you and send you back to bed so you don't fall down anymore stairs!!

Allison

[krazy]

This is 100% true, When I was a junior in highschool, I walked into my parents room in the dead of winter, and turned on the AC full blast, then proceeded to pour a glass of orange juice on the floor. Yes, I was asleep. Remember NONE of it. My dad said he said my name a few times, and then walked me back to my room to bed.

[smiley21]

i thought it was dangerous to wake up sleepwalkers

I'd go to your Primary care physician (PCP) and see if you can get a referral to a sleep clinic. It's a little unusual to be sleepwalking so frequently - the suggestions that it may be stress or a reaction to a medication are pretty good.

I did this often in childhood all the way up through college. Usually I would get up, and just start getting ready for the day. I'd wake up in the shower and find out it was actually 2am or something. A few times I held conversations with people, but I don't remember anything.

It *can* be dangerous to sleepwalk, as it looks like you've found out. While it may be embarassing or not seem like a big deal, I suggest you get it checked out. You don't want to accidentally spill a pot of boiling water on yourself or something (I nearly did this once... I was making food in my sleep).

Good luck!

Oh... and no, it's not dangerous to wake someone. The worst that will happen is they'll be confused, or frightened.

[bethany1982]

Get to your Dr. ASAP, before you really hurt yourself or someone else.