Night Terrors??????

[kite]

Do any of you have any experience with these or know of someone? My 6 yr. old girl has been having these for about a year now. I've taken her to two seperate psychologists and nothing. She'll go for a while having them every night maybe missing a night here and there and then she's gone for months without them.

[Gooseneck]

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I had them when I was her age. It used to be a recurring dream, usually one where I was in a closterphobic (?) situation.

[kite]

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She never remembers what she dreamed. It kinda freaked me out the first time it happened, I'd never seen any shit like that before. Her eyes are open and sometimes she'll answer you but it's like she's looking straight through you like she's possessed. It lasts anywhere from a couple of min. to 15 or so, and when she comes out of it she doesn't remember anything at all but she's still upset.

[Gooseneck]

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Yup, classic night terror. Best thing you can do is keep her calm until she awakens but dont try to wake her forcefully, this can actually cause a heart attack if traumatic enough. Dont worry bro, its more common than you think.

[kite]

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Yeah, no shit I found that out the hard way. I thought that if I poured some cold water in my hand and wiped her face she'd wake up, well she freaked out big time and was moving her arms like she thought she was drowning. That really made me feel like shit, but I learned what not to do.

[mattd]

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My oldest went through that when he was 3 or 4. Sometimes he still does. It's craxy, can't get hime to wake up for anything. He eventually grew out of it...Don't have alot of advice because we didn't know what to do and the Dr said he'd grow out of it just wait it out...

[Lily]

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No night terrors but my son use to sleep walk..that was freaky...I knew he did it when i would talk to him and he didn't make any sense and didnt really look at me...it always seemed to happen when he took cold medicines....

[Starr]

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I went through a stage of having night terrors about 3 or 4 years ago (at age 26 or 27) for about a year. I've since gotten over it all. It was terrible.

[mick-G]

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You have to take her to one of thoses sleep disorder clinics. Most regular phys don't know much about it and will just charge the insurance for anything they can think of or prescribe meds.

[mrthnhmn]

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I hadn't heard of this b4, its a real condition...WOW!!!

[mrthnhmn]

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You have to take her to one of thoses sleep disorder clinics. Most regular phys don't know much about it and will just charge the insurance for anything they can think of or prescribe meds.

I wondering the same thing at first, but now it sounds neurological. A sleep study would help rule out any breathing disorders though. Good advice MICK.

[Iron_Gook]

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I use to get them as a child... always a reoccuring dream that would push me over the edge and I'd find myself screaming at the top of my lungs... my parents would flip out... LOL... I still get them from time to time... generally when I'm under extreme stress... it scares the living crap out of my wife...

IG

[mick-G]

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I was watching something on this awhile ago on TV, cant remember...but I think it had to do something with the REM sleep, and what they did was to monitor these ppl in a sleeping area with electrodes attached to dif areas of the body and head and everytime they went into this sleep pattern where they started to have the night tremors they would know from the graphs from the electrodes what area/areas it was taking place and then they would send some electrical current to certain areas of the brain and it took them out of it. Even though it was some kind of shock therapy, the shock was very mild and just enough to get them out of the REM sleep where this was occuring. I cant remember the outcome or what they did for ongoing treatment, but you might want to do some searchs on this, or do a search with your insurance provider to see who is listed that has experience with sleep disorders.

[kite]

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Cool, thanks. I hadn't thought of a sleep study, I was just thinking psychological.

[mick-G]

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Yes, i think it has something to do like said above,that it is partly neurological and something to do with the different levels of sleep, that cause this.