I’m really worried here and need talked down. (Thank you health anxiety).
I’ve spent the last few nights sharing a bed with my 9 year old while
staying with family. 2 out of the 4 nights I literally got 0 sleep because she jerked all night in her sleep.
the kind of jerk you get when you just fall asleep but it happened every 20-30 mins all night. Her hand jerking, then a foot, then a leg. Enough to wake me and she’d resettle so had obviously been woken by it too.
she had no memory of it in the morning but the nights it happened the next morning she was very tired and said she felt cold (I’m guessing from lack of any restful sleep). Looking back there’s been a few mornings over the last few months where she’s complained of being oddly shivery and cold in the morning which I didn’t understand as she didn’t have a temp. Wonder now if it was a similar restless sleep.
my main worry is epilepsy- my mum has nocturnal epilepsy I fear it due to how bad it often it. I’m hoping it’s not as my 9 year old Hasn’t wet the bed overnight and hasn’t convulsed as such which is what happens with my mum. But what else cold it be?
she’s shown no signs in the day fwiw; she is generally anxious due to my divorce and school bullying but not sure that could explain physical limb jerks all night ☹️
she is very scared of epilepsy having seen my mum post - seizure, so really do not want to mention the symptoms/ term in front of her but know a gp will need to see her
and assess her.
any advice/
hope very very welcome from a worried mum