Posted by kellyR. on April 24, 2000, at 19:43:51
In reply to Re: sleep hitting, posted by Scott L. Schofield on April 22, 2000, at 0:41:29
> > I've always had this problem & nothing seems to make it stop,I hit in my sleep my husband has gotting a black eye because of me,& some times the kides come in our bed in the middle of the night to sleep w/ us.My husband had to stop me from hitting my daughter( when i was asleep of course).It's becoming more & more of a problem,I don't know why i do it or how to stop it from happen anymore?My Dr. thinks it's PTSD.So should i just buy my husband body gear or get twin beds?
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> Why does your doctor think you have PTSD? He may be right. Did he indicate that these incidents were night-terrors? Do you automatically wake up when this happens, or are you awakened only by the impact of punching something or knocking something over? Are you in a state of great fear upon awakening?
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> I have had similar experiences while taking certain medications. The last time this happened to me, I was taking Parnate and imipramine in combination. This side effect disappeared shortly after I discontinued Parnate. I'm guessing that Effexor and Lamictal may also be capable of this.
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> Is there anything to which you can attribute it becoming more of a problem recently? Medication? Stress?
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> I bet certain medications would help the situation. I don't have a clue as to which ones.
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> Someone more knowledgeable of sleep-disorders will hopefully post a reply.
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> Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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> Perhaps you could wear "socker-boppers". (You must be at least forty years old to understand this).
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> - ScottI think that socker-boppers is a great choose. I don't think that it's my meds that are cause of my problem, because i've been doing this since i was very young.I can remember waking up from hitting the wall,my sister & brothers were always afraid to wake me up in the morning because i would start hit at them in my sleep (from what they tell me).I was abused by my mother & abused by a neighbor sexaully,my father had a problem w/ drugs (the hard kind),& would beat my mother up all the time so my house was like a battle field everyday. Even going to school was hell w/ kids picking on me all the time punching me in the head just for the fun of it,I was so scared all the time that i started to carry around a knife to school.So what all that in the past why would i still be fighting in my sleep?When i was in the hospital in MN i told the dr. there that i would of rather of gone to vietnam then living where i did,he asked me why & i told him because it would of been for a couple of years then 17yrs of hell.
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