Sleep walking and OSA?

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Sleep walking and OSA?

Post by windbreather » Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:59 pm

I was talking with a co-worker today and the subject of sleep walking in children came up. Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if sleep walking as a child is related to adult OSA?
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Re: Sleep walking and OSA?

Post by Muse-Inc » Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:02 pm

I slept walked as a child.
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Re: Sleep walking and OSA?

Post by windbreather » Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:08 pm

I did too, that is why I am curious

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Re: Sleep walking and OSA?

Post by lebowski8 » Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:25 pm

That would be interesting to know!
My family has a history of many sleep disorders, particularly. Rapid eye movement behavior disorder, which some people think as "extreme" sleep-walking: when people act out their dreams. My father and sister seem to have that the worst, where sometimes it happens several times a week (stories too many and long to relate). . My parents recall only a few times where I did this, too, as a teen and once in my early 20s during exam week. My mother has very disordered sleeping. I believed I had a circadian rhythm disorder for years, but now i strongly believe it was actually OSA.
Possibly-- OSA causes so much disruption to sleep rhythms and sleep habits that it causes other REM disturbances in many people with OSA?
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Re: Sleep walking and OSA?

Post by georgepds » Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:40 pm

So.. how far can you sleep walk before the cpap dangling between your knees wakes you up?

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Re: Sleep walking and OSA?

Post by twokatmew » Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:55 pm

georgepds wrote:So.. how far can you sleep walk before the cpap dangling between your knees wakes you up?
Heheh! I was thinking I wouldn't get very far sleep walking while connected to my CPAP!

I used to sleep walk as a child, and my mom used to tell stories about all the funny things I did. I also used to talk in my sleep, and I occasionally still do.

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