[Remy]

Do any of you inomniacs have other sleep disorders as well? Things like Nocturnal Lagophthalmos (sleeping with the eyes open), Rhythmic Movement Disorder, sleepwalking, sleeptalking or night terrors?

I get all of these to more or less extent (sleepwalking and night terrors are rare, thankfully) but especially after increasing a seroquel dose I'll sit up happily in bed, eyes open, chatting to the dream-creatures, while fast asleep. I've had a sleep study done and the results were “your brain wiring is truly bizarre. We can't do much for you.”

And especially for people with RMD, how do you share a bed?

[Martin Reed]

I know for a fact other members suffer from restless leg syndrome, sleep walking and night terrors in particular. I've put this one out in the latest Insomniac Bulletin so hopefully some other members will chime in.

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[MarinaFournier]

'Remy' wrote on '01:

Do any of you inomniacs have other sleep disorders as well? Things like Nocturnal Lagophthalmos (sleeping with the eyes open), Rhythmic Movement Disorder, sleepwalking, sleeptalking or night terrors?

Our younger dog, a poodle/bichon mix, has Nocturnal Lagophthalmos–didn't know there was a name for it. His eyes never quite close when he's asleep.

I'm one with Restless Leg, but I need to see if the vitamin/mineral path shows whether it is, in my case, a vitamin deficiency.

My sister sleepwalked and talked, but my first semester frosh roommate talked and *whistled* in her sleep. I was amazed. I know I slept better the next semester when I was in a single room. We were from completely different backgrounds, and she used language TO her mother on the phone which I didn't dare use in front of mine (not that I used it anyway).

It would have been nicer for the techs at the sleep study to have referred your case to the local sleep uber-specialist, who then could have written a paper about you, and possibly from that, attracted the attention of someone who might have an idea of what to do.

My major problem in sharing a bed with another human is breathing noise over a certain level preventing me from dropping off. Then there was the issue of my brain screaming “there's someone else in the bed!” when I had a new lover, in the dawn of time. Would typically take me at least a month to get used to the other person's presence. I can't sleep snuggled up with someone due to tactile oversensitivity and general need to be free to move (or something: I couldn't stand footed pjs as a child, can't stand socks (more a temperature issue) or shoes I can't easily get out of, which is more like phsyical claustrophobia), and these days, temperature issues.

I hope you get some good ideas here, or find some reference which leads to a solution for your sleep disturbances.

[MarinaFournier]

ack! The last person was from NZ, you're from Canada, Sahara. I don't know how your Health Service treats migraineurs, either.

[Remy]

Yeah, essentially the sleep study was conducted on the public health system, which is great cos it's free, but there's not a lot of testing and retesting to be done. They only did me because one time I stayed awake for ten days and they wanted to know why the frack I wasn't sleeping. (In between pumping me full of haldol… Mmm haldol.)

I've rarely shared a bed with someone else, I find it's okay for me so long as I have my own duvet and my standard earplugs/super dark/lots of drugs routine. Not so flash for the other person who watches me thump my head into the pillow for fifteen minutes as I fall asleep.

I'm also a no-sock person. Its not temperature as it can be literally freezing in my flat and I can't wear socks.

[MarinaFournier]

'Remy' wrote on '26:

Yeah, essentially the sleep study was conducted on the public health system, which is great cos it's free, but there's not a lot of testing and retesting to be done. They only did me because one time I stayed awake for ten days and they wanted to know why the frack I wasn't sleeping. (In between pumping me full of haldol… Mmm haldol.)

The sleep study I endured was considerably after the bad stretch I had–took that long to get an appt., and it was absolutly useless, because none of the symptoms were present. The doctor thought I was faking it. He was primarily a pulmonologist, anyway, which study has nothing to do with my insomnia patterns.

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I've rarely shared a bed with someone else, I find it's okay for me so long as I have my own duvet and my standard earplugs/super dark/lots of drugs routine. Not so flash for the other person who watches me thump my head into the pillow for fifteen minutes as I fall asleep.

My husband and I are both wrappers-of-duvets. Strangely enough, any kind of earplug only allows me to FEEL the sound as well as hear it. Like I said, overactive tactile sense.

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I'm also a no-sock person. Its not temperature as it can be literally freezing in my flat and I can't wear socks.

In addition to the to-swiftly-too-hot-ness of socks for me, there's the feeling of suffocation or of claustrophobia in my feet. [tangent: if I'm in a very fast elevator, my feet feel dizzy. Don't grok it, just accept it…]

I usually wear a pair of open-heeled sheepskin clogs (with a fleece footpad liner) in the winter. One day, a little girl asked me why my shoes didn't have heels, and I told her a little about how my feet get too hot, and how having the heels bare helps stop that. She was very confused, because what I was doing was apparently something her mother said she couldn't do.

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