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Night terrors

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Ebea25 · 14/02/2025 22:17

Around every 3 weeks my son is okay and then all of a sudden complains of having a weird feeling and his head hurting. He also shows cold/flu symptoms ( hot, tired, headache, bright red cheeks, generally feeling unwell) he goes to bed perfectly fine but about an hour later he wakes up and through crying and body language we can tell he’s had a bad dream, he gets really upset and covers his face and doesn’t really know what to do with him self and just keeps crying. It’s like he isn’t properly awake but if you asked him questions about what day it is, what he’s doing tomorrow etc he knows the answer so makes me think he is awake. He also says that everything seems really big and fast when he moves after this happened and then eventually just turns over in bed and goes back to sleep. I’m wondering if this could be a neurological issue? He used to have night terrors when he was a toddler however those have passed as he has gotten older. The pattern and complaining of feeling weird in his head before it happens is what worries me. Any advice would be appreciated.

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illiad · 14/02/2025 22:29

Could this be migraines? I've had them since childhood and even now continue to have weird dreams pretty much every time I have one, that plus visual disturbance and head pain ... defo worth a trip to the GP to discuss and rule out anything else.

Ebea25 · 14/02/2025 22:36

illiad · 14/02/2025 22:29

Could this be migraines? I've had them since childhood and even now continue to have weird dreams pretty much every time I have one, that plus visual disturbance and head pain ... defo worth a trip to the GP to discuss and rule out anything else.

Definitely going to see GP. I’m not sure if it could be migraines as it starts about an hour before he goes to bed and apart from the crying and seeming scared when he wakes up he doesn’t complain of pain. 🤷‍♀️

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Ebea25 · 14/02/2025 22:36

Ebea25 · 14/02/2025 22:36

Definitely going to see GP. I’m not sure if it could be migraines as it starts about an hour before he goes to bed and apart from the crying and seeming scared when he wakes up he doesn’t complain of pain. 🤷‍♀️

He’s also absolutely fine in the morning.

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ILoveQuicheandCheese · 14/02/2025 22:38

Definitely get it checked by a gp. I had night terrors as a child and my experience was very different. I never felt ill before them. I was quite sweaty after out of pure terror. Why was it always spiders?? I HATE spiders.

Ebea25 · 14/02/2025 22:41

ILoveQuicheandCheese · 14/02/2025 22:38

Definitely get it checked by a gp. I had night terrors as a child and my experience was very different. I never felt ill before them. I was quite sweaty after out of pure terror. Why was it always spiders?? I HATE spiders.

Thats the weird thing though, he can never tell me what happened in the dream it’s just that he’s obviously terrified that tells me it was a bad one. When he was younger and had night terrors more often it was horrible to watch, he would cover his face and point to the corner of his room, I had to check the whole house once because he had convinced me that someone was in the house hiding somewhere.

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