Anyone know anything about sleepwalking?

[CelticWinter]

Hubby had a morphine pump put in last april and has had bouts of sleepwalking ever since. He just now got up and vaccumed the bedroom, put the vaccum away and is sleeping in bed, and he was sleep walking. He will get up make a pot of coffee and go back to bed, never remembering what he has done. Anyone have any experiences on this. He has talked to his doctor about it and they have adjusted his meds on many occassions but still he is sleepwalking.
Thanks
Celtic

[MuseRider]

1. At least he is handy

while doing it! I am not making light, it can be really scary. Sorry I am no help. Is there anything on the net about it? It would seem there would be maybe in a section about sleep disorders.

Edit try this http://www.sleepnet.com/rest.html

[CelticWinter]

4. Ive found some info on it

most sleepwalking occurs with children 6-12. But I will keep looking.
:)

[MuseRider]

7. I just looked it up

in my PDR. It seems that there is nothing there about sleepwalking as a side effect of Morphine but then I used to understand this stuff a lot better than I do now. I would certainly keep putting pressure on the doc if this is something he has never done before. Drug interaction? Perhaps his dose needs adjusting and then it might not be anything to do with the Morphine. His doctor would be the one to keep asking and I would not let it go until I had some kind of answer. Hopefully there will be some help dealing with the sleepwalking until you get some answers. Good luck.

[mdmc]

2. sounds like stress from recent trauma

surgery? w. reelection?

sleepwalking seems like a reaction to stress. I'm not sure of other causes.

[neebob]

3. My son (almost 16) has had bouts of sleepwalking since he was 3 or 4

I haven't noticed it lately, since we've both been sleeping with our doors shut, but I'll bet he's still doing it. He does and says all kinds of bizarre things. Once he turned on the bathwater, went back to bed, and flooded his end of the house.

Mostly, though, he just stumbles into whatever room I'm in and says some weird thing, and I say, "Yeah, okay, go back to bed," and he goes. I've learned not to tell him he's sleepwalking, because then he argues with me.

I keep hoping it will stop.

[CelticWinter]

6. He has talked in his sleep and then remembers nothing

but he has done weird things like taking his clothes out of his dresser, put water in a candle bowl and set it in the hallway for the cats lol. And he has mentioned it on numerous occassions to his doctor and he doesnt seem concerned about it. He is on morphine, dispensed through the pump, (doctor thought it was easier on his system than taking 200 mg a day in tablets), but not sure now if it was the safer way.

[neebob]

9. That's got to be unnerving. I'd get a second opinion.

Except for overflowing the tub, which he did when he was really little, my son hasn't done anything destructive or dangerous. He moves things around sometimes - one time he brought his snowboard into the living room and said he was going snowboarding. Another time he stuck out the palm of his hand and said, "Mom, you have to sign this."

Mostly, though, it's just weird conversations. He's said some really nonsensical things; other times, he seems perfectly lucid. If you tell him he's sleepwalking, he gets really mad and insists he's not. "I am not sleepwalking!" Sometimes I have to talk to him for a few minutes before I decide if he's sleepwalking or not.

I've always kind of assumed he'd grow out of it. I haven't seen any evidence of it in months.

I guess if it's just amusing and he doesn't do any damage, you could take the wait-and-see approach that I have, but with an adult who's never done it before it seems like cause for concern.

[jmm]

8. I've been told I do that

I never remember it but I'll go through phases when it happens frequently then nobody will mention it to me for a couple of years.

I've also been told I don't talk in me sleep unless I'm "up" in my sleep.

[barb162]

5. I know people who did it in childhood and then grew out of it when

they get to adulthood. It's obviously the medication as that is strong strong stuff ( my mom was on it and hallucinated while on it) and I can't imagine the MD giving it if he didn't neeed it. You might want to look up this med on the Physician's Desk Reference , Merck Manual, etc on the web and just snoop around that way and see what you can learn

[CelticWinter]

10. He's up now and I just told him about his lil housecleaning job

and he cant remember a thing, just smiled and said "O, boy". Is time for the doctor to listen, dont need him taking the dog out for a walk and getting lost or worse driving the car.