(February 4, 2014 at 11:00 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote:(February 4, 2014 at 12:11 pm)kirolo Wrote: I've experienced sleep paralysis off and on for probably 15 years now. I didn't know what it was for the longest time, and it got to the point that I was afraid to go to sleep because I thought I was going to die. Now that I fully understand it, when it happens, I don't struggle and panic as much and I'm able to fall back to full sleep sooner. Very terrifying, especially if you don't know what's going on.
If it happens so often, you can see a doc and get treatment for it.
Yea, the thing about sleep paralysis is when you don't know what's going on, it's terrifying.
I don't know what the treatment would be, but before I knew what "this" was, I wore a holter monitor on two separate occasions. Both were a waste of time because I never experienced it while wearing the monitors. The sleep doctor I went to, after I knew that what I was experiencing was sleep paralysis, wanted to set me up with a sleep study. I never went back. My episodes happen so sporadically, I don't think there is a way to "capture" it. I can go for many months without an episode, or I can have two back to back...
