To see a GP about sleep walking?

[Faerie87]

Bit of a strange one, every now and again I have slept walked and talked, I have done it for as long as I can remember usually happens when I’m stressed about something or sleep deprived, it isn’t usually a nightly occurrence but recently I have been doing it a lot.

I have a six month old and over the last couple of weeks I know I’ve been sleep walking, my fiancé tells me about some of the things I do, and the other day I woke up to find a file of paper work open on my bed???

It’s really worrying me now, I am sleep deprived due to having a young baby so I know I can’t do anything about getting more sleep but I am really feeling more exhausted in the morning because of it.

I have a vague sense of awareness while I am doing it but usually find that when I’m doing it I have something to do urgently that does not make sense when I think about it rationally once I have woken myself up! Such as the other night it was imperative that I unplugged a lamp in the bedroom, I woke myself up studying this plug and I thought to myself what an Earth am I doing!

I feel a bit silly seeing a GP about this as I feel they will just think I’m wasting their time. Would it be worth speaking to my health visitor instead? is there anything that can be done or would it be a case of “just get more sleep!” Which is how I used to manage it!

Has anyone else had similar issues? And how have you dealt with it? Just really want to find what would be best to do in this situation?

My DH does similar, especially when stressed and tired. Eldest DS is also showing similar traits. DH went onto antidepressants when DC were little and it did help his sleep. So I do think it's worth speaking to the GP.

Ooh OP sorry no Advice but I'm the same! I realise I'm sleepwalking when it suddenly occurs to me that what I am doing makes no sense
, like pulling all my stuff out of the wardrobe to make room for a passing train that kind of thing.....

Another lifelong sleepwalker (and sleep-talker and sleep-hallucinator!) here. I was briefly much, much worse when my kids were babies. Partly because of sleep deprivation which triggers all my crappy sleep behaviours, and I think partly because of new-parent hyper-alertness.

I found it naturally got better as they got older. The other thing that helped me was getting more sleep during the day. Is this practical for you?

I don't know if the GP can help or not as I've never sought help, but it can't do any harm to try. Hope you feel better soon.

I do this too, the other night it was very, very important that I check all corners and sides of the curtains for... something. Woke up in the middle of it, freezing cold.

Memorably once there were beans spilled all over the bed and I was extremely annoyed. Also mundane things like the plug thing you mention, coming to awareness to realise I'm doing something silly.

No advice I'm afraid, it only happens rarely and with no specific trigger, but I'm sure your GP won't see it as a waste of time especially as you've got a baby.

Thanks for your replies, it’s made me feel a bit better.

I think As a previous poster has said it does seem to be worse since having my LG, one due to sleep deprivation and secondly when she was in with us I used wake up in a panic thinking that she was lost under the sheets in the bed, and frantically pulled all the sheets back only to realise, she was happily sleeping Away in the cot next to me.

She went into her own room a couple of weeks ago and I think this has triggered me waking up panicking about where she is, my fiancé usually calms me down telling me she’s fine, I have asked other mums in rl whether they have experienced that and they have told me that it’s quite common.

I usually get her weighed every other week so might speak to the health visitors when I go next time xx