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marilyn57604
marilyn57604

Hello everyone. I have a problem that has been going on now for well over 2 years and it happens every night. I talk in my sleep. Its really started to bring me down,. My GP has sent me for a sleep study waiting for results. It always happens around 4am in the morning. I have recorded myself and it freaks me out as does not sound like me and the things I talk about. Sometimes I see things that aren't there. I take 2mg Valium at night to help. I do all the usual things to sleep but next day so tired. Why am I doing this I am worried been going on for so long..

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  • venkatesan21677
    venkatesan21677 marilyn57604

    Posted

    I am 55 years male and I am having the same problem.  During night I speak and I expect others to reply.  This has been going on for some time.  What I spoke is also known to me on the next day.  I am a CSVD patient with Brain Atrophy  & Neuorlogical defects.  Taking sleeping pills & sertaline tablets. Despite that I speak during sleep.  What happens in the brain is not known.  I have taken MRI which revealed that I am a small vessel disese patient.  Take MRI immediately. Whats your age?

  • lily65668
    lily65668 marilyn57604

    Posted

    Hi Marilyn,

    I can't tell you why you're doing it, only that I did it too, especially in my teens and twenties - when I also walked in my sleep occasionally. People sometimes recorded me as well. One roommate got so upset one night when I was talking about killing a baby and laughing maniacally, that she refused to share with me any more!

    I never perceived it as a medical condition, and it eventually petered out, though I'm told I still occasionally talk in my sleep now, in my 70s.

    I sometimes hallucinate on waking too, but in my case that's down to sleep paralysis, which I've had all my adult life, and which I don't think is associated with sleep talking.

    Quite a lot of us do odd things in our sleep, and have strange experiences associated with sleep. This kind of thing is very rarely a sign of any kind of illness, and is best ignored. The more attention and worry you put on it, the worse it will get. (I'm a former neuro nurse btw.)

    Are you quite sure the night-time valium isn't contributing to your tiredness the following day?

    • marilyn57604
      marilyn57604 lily65668

      Posted

      Hi , Well I just don't know what to think. I take a small dose of Valium 2mg in 2 halfs I have a lot of stress in my life and suffer from anxiety so I think my GP just probably thinks it stress. I try to make light of it to myself but when I hear myself it freaks me out. I am 67.

    • lily65668
      lily65668 marilyn57604

      Posted

      It does sound like stress. And listening to recordings of your sleep-talking will only add to the stress. I think you're right to make light of it. I always have.

      With respect to venkatesan21677, sleep-talking isn't a symptom of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). Sadly, CSVD is a part of the ageing process that affects most of us as we get older, though I'm sorry to hear he already has a diagnosis at only 55.

      I'm 74, and I'm sure that if I had an MRI, they'd find signs of it. As I'm coping perfectly well at the moment - aside from sometimes losing my words and temporarily forgetting how to use household appliances - I'd frankly rather not know whether I have it or not. In any case, it can't be cured or even significantly slowed down.

      I'm glad to hear that you've done a sleep study. That's always a good place to start. I never did one myself. My multiple sleep disorders all started at least 50 years ago, when sleep studies weren't available, and I've got so used to living with them, I don't think it would be worth it for me now.

      Is there some way you can address your stress levels? Given your age, I'm wondering whether they're down to coping with a loved one's dementia or having to take over a parenting role with grandchildren. I know my stress levels were through the roof in the last few years of my mother's life, when she was going down to vascular dementia, and I was her sole carer as the only child. I don't think my sleep-talking increased, but during that time I had a lot of sleep paralysis episodes, with very severe hallucinations. Far from feeling relieved when she died 12 years ago, I was unexpectedly grief-stricken, but everything has settled down again since then.

      I would urge you to try and reduce your stress levels, while recognising that this isn't always possible if the stress is caused by a difficult life situation.

  • venkatesan21677
    venkatesan21677 marilyn57604

    Posted

    Hai.  I don't know whether taking clonazepam .5 & Elesert 100 will be having side effects but I am using this for the past 8 months. As discussed by GPs & Neurologists, Physciatrists I presume that these tablets r dangerous & we will be dependent to thes tabs.  But of late  these medicines r not of big use to me & next day's work gets affected. Physicians advised me to review after 2 months but they have also advised not to stop suddenly.  What to do?

  • jane13266
    jane13266 marilyn57604

    Posted

    Why are you concerned about taking in sleep. People do it sometimes. Why are you worried about it?
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