Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 2 Location: South coast nsw
Unusual Sleep Episodes Posted: 02-26-07 03:50am
My 14 year old son had been having these
very unusual sleep episodes since October
last year. They started spasmodically and
have increased in frequency ever since,
becoming nightly for the last month.
He falls asleep easily and within 15 min
of him going to sleep he starts tossing
and turning, throwing himself around the
room. Not like a siezure, but floppy and
we cannot rouse him at all. He falls off
the bed and squrmes around the floor, or
just kiks out or throws his arms out. He
does this so hard, he has bruised his
limbs, but remembers nothing the next day.
This can go on for up to 5 hours, and he
becomes very strong and almost imposible
to contain in his bed
We have taken him to the Doctor and he has
been taken to Hospital in an ambulance on
several occasions because he has hurt
himself during these episodes. He spent 2
weeks in Sydney's Childrens Hospital, and
none of the Doctors can give us a
diognosis. They have put him an a
medication that sedates him, but it hasn't
stopped the episodes. All they can say is
that they havn't seen anyting like it in
the past.
He has had eeg's and a sleepstudy, which
was inconclusive. He also had a sleep
deprived eeg, but he slept through this
without any movement at all.
If anyone out there has had any
experiences like this or know of someone
who has had anything similar, I would be
truly glad to hear from you
