Night terrors

[birchykel]

I'm not sure if this is the correct thread so just shout if so.
I have a 6 year old girl who usually sleeps well.
She has night terrors usually if she has a fever, last week she kept waking scared and no fever.
Then she would wake up with no terrors but still upset and scared.
Now she is screaming before bed, during the night and up at the crack of dawn.
I know it's normal for children to have big imaginations at this age, I've tried all sorts to help her. All she says is she's doenst want to be alone, she's scared of her room (nothing has changed in her room).
I'm just looking for advice, do i have to be firm now, let her cry it out? Or continue to settle her during the night till she goes back to sleep?
Obviously I'm struggling with no sleep, and it's easier to sit with her till she goes off so I can get back to sleep but at some point this has to stop.

Does anyone else have this problem?
Thanks in advance

I wouldn't leave her to cry when she's scared.

Can you leave a lamp on in her room?

She has the landing light on which is very bright but she wants it on.
I haven't left her so far, I'm just wondering what else to do when I've exhausted everything else.....that i can think of.

My DD had night terrors. They happened about an hour after she went to sleep and it was horrific. She screamed and screamed and screamed. I could offer no comfort, she looked straight through me and sometimes hit and punched me. It was very distressing. Is your DD aware of what she's doing? Does she remember in the morning? My DD was her normal cheery self the next day, with no recollection of what happened the previous evening.

If this sounds like your DD then it's definitely night terrors. The best advice I was given was to back off and let her thrash it out, but be very close by so that she doesn't cause herself harm.

You have my sympathies OP. It's very stressful.

I have girls both have had night terrors. My eldest doesn't have them anymore she is 8 but my youngest still does. She is 4 an it's exhausting, she wakes maybe 3/4 time screaming crying and no amount of comfort helps. I'm like a zombie trying to help her. I suffered myself as a child it's meant to be hereditary! I just rode it out with eldest, hard but there is a light at the end of the Tunnel it's just a long tunnel

It does sounds like my daughter, although now she remembers hearing someone scream in her night terrors and that's keeping her from going to sleep in the first place now. She won't go off to sleep unless I'm there.
Then she wakes in the night, waking properly now and it all starts again. So no idea what to do.