Sleepwalking

[CrunchyFrog]

Just wondering if anyone has weird sleepwalking or sleep behaviour, and could it be linked to Epilepsy or the medication?
I do weird things in my sleep that I don't remember and it seems to be getting worse, I never did any kind of sleepwalking before I was on medication. A few weeks ago I somehow managed to cut open my hand, and earlier in the week my husband came home late and I was in bed. I woke up, and he was watching TV and I asked him when he had gotten home, he looked at be weird because apparently I'd had a whole conversation about him about the show Snog Marry Avoid. He thought it was strange because, I declared my love for the show and was talking a bit high pitched and sounded sleepy.
I don't think I should be worried, it's just weird that I'm cutting myself open and having entire conversations in my sleep. I don't know if I'm just a whacky sleeper or if it's connected to the Epilepsy in anyway.

 

[Nakamova]

In some cases, the "sleepwalking" can be complex partial seizure. Which med are you on?

 

[CrunchyFrog]

I'm on lamictal... Any connection there?

 

[CQ:)]

CrunchyFrog,
Have you mentioned these episodes to your neurologist or are you writing them in a seizure diary?
About 4 years ago I started 'sleepwalking', some mornings I would wake up & find things lying on my bedroom floor when they weren't there the night before or clothes on my bed which were in my cupboard the night before. I would also wake up & find I didn't have all my pjs on or had socks on my feet which i didn't have on the night before. I live on my own so there was no one to blame for moving things around & no witnesses.
I thought these were some type of seizure in my sleep but when I mentioned it to my neurologist he said I was sleepwalking.

I didn't think it was sleep walking because I had no memory of sleepwalking before these episodes happened & alot of the times when I did have one of these episodes I would wake up with a pounding headache. I saw an epitiologist in 2010 & when I asked him about the sleepwalking episodes he said that he was 90% sure they were seizures in my sleep. Funny thing is that I haven't had any more 'sleep walking episodes' after I had my surgery which has helped control my seizures.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

I haven't ..... I didn't actually think they could be actual seizures. I know I didn't sleepwalk before I was on medication. It does seem to be becoming more frequent, every few mornings I wake up and I'm told I either did or said something strange that I have no recollection of. I feel like I'm getting worse and not better and I hate that I have no real control over it.
Thanks for your replies

 

[CQ:)]

I know I didn't sleepwalk before I was on medication.

I wonder if the sleepwalking could have something to do with meds & seizures because I am pretty sure I didn't start 'sleepwalking' until after I started taking Keppra. I am still on Keppra but as I mentioned before I haven't had any sleep walking episodes since my surgery.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

I wonder if the sleepwalking could have something to do with meds & seizures because I am pretty sure I didn't start 'sleepwalking' until after I started taking Keppra. I am still on Keppra but as I mentioned before I haven't had any sleep walking episodes since my surgery.

Thanks CQ I'll have to mention it next appointment. I don't think I'd ever be considered for surgery but, if it is related maybe I need a change of medication.

 

[Nakamova]

You might ask about having a sleep study done -- that might shed some light on what's going on.