Hoping for some advice because I am at my wits’ end over this!
Do you ever get that feeling when you’re drifting off to sleep and then your whole body spasms / jerks and you feel like you’ve been falling?
Multiple times per week, my husband will have nights where this happens over and over and over again. He is somehow sleeping through it (Christ knows how) but it makes the entire bed jump, and it essentially destroys any prospect I have of falling asleep until he’s over it (which can take up to an hour). By the time he stops, I’m so jangled that it takes me ages to fall asleep.
I’ve started sleeping in the spare room when he does this but it’s happening so often that it’s not really a feasible solution, and in any event I don’t sleep that well when I’m in bed on my own anyway.
Is there anything we can try to stop him doing this? He feels awful but he’s totally unaware that he’s doing it. It doesn’t seem to be affected by the position he sleeps in etc, and it hardly seems like a medical issue. It’s just happening so often now that I don’t see how we can keep sharing a bed unless we find a solution!