How do you stop night terrors from happening?
You know.. waking up middle of the night your heart either too fast or too slow with what feels a bit like adrenal rushing through your body or chest and almost like impending doom or death.. having to remind yourself to stay calm cos if you let it freak you out your head will end up spinning.. breath slow... and wait for it to pass before you go back to sleep..
Do you experience this? How do you deal with it?
Or could it be caused by a regular slow heart rate?
omg i'm so shocked reading this ...
For years and years, since I was 18 I experienced this!!
I "wake up" at night, usally containing three ingredients: lack of sleep - stress - heat !!! then I get feeling a bit dizzy, but I drift off asleep as everything is feeling very heavy.
All of a sudden I "wake up" and find myself with a RACING heartbeat like 200 b/min. I'm 31 and still alive is this may give you hope. Although often though I wouldn't surviv, especially in the beginning. In this moments I can't move!!
Not thing ... The strange thing is I want to move badly (especially since I'm very hot and scared!!), it feels like lead and impossible - much like the astenia which I might have by day when awake - so in my head I feel like i'm moving. So my brain actually makes me think I'm moving ... but I am not .... and i actually feel like i'm making myself ready for whatever and starting my morning ritual, then realising something is not right...
this episodes ends with the idea that i can move a finger very very slowly which asks extremely much energy. All the sudden I can really move it and I freak out of bed .... pulling my duvet up in one movement and breathing like an idiot, my heart still racing too fast but the extreme racing stops then.
A key ingredient to prevent this for me, is coolig my room down as much as possible, a lot work since my body temperatures always seems on the rise at night even though freezing outside and my windows right open...
Secondly I sometimes even take lormetazepam if i feel i cant escape, to avoid this from happening.
Lately I also get this sleeping paralysis without the heart racing, having me wondered it was jst a panic reaction. But I'm sure it is not. Because it is too fast for any normal panic reaction and since i'm used to getting them i'm not always panicked anymore (unfortunately you only wonder: will they stop, and why? read: will i still be alive then).
This is so strange that I almost never told this to anyone. Never a cardiologist could see them. But in 24 hr monitoring report i noticed that my heartbeat was extremely varying at night. Of course no "terror episode" during the monitoring.
btw never someone saw me getting these, imagine...