https://www.reddit.com/r/MadOver30/comments/1dhq50v/sleepwalking/
created by esoper1976 on 17/06/2024 at 04:56 UTC
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So, I have been doing some very weird things lately. My major mental illnesses have been in remission for a while, but I recently went through a med change. (Every 6-8 years I switch back and forth between two MAOIs when one stops working and the other starts working again). I have no idea if the weird things are related to the med change (I think I always did them, just very infrequently).
So, I often get a snack in the middle of the night. That's not new. But, I have been so out of it/almost still asleep that I have been having problems making my snack, and I have been doing strange things.
I got my clean sheets out of the dryer, and thought I should make the bed. But, I couldn't figure out how to put the sheets on the bed because the bed was already made. I couldn't figure out how to strip the bed to put the sheets on it, so I just gave up. I only remembered this because when I woke up in the morning the clean sheets were in the bed with me.(and a random table cloth).
I woke up one morning and I had a different pajama top on. The matching pants were in the bed, and I was wearing the pants I originally wore to bed. I had no memory of changing pajamas. I couldn't find my original pajama shirt. I was still wearing it under the new shirt!
I was cooking a bagel. I needed butter, but it was all hard in the fridge. I usually soften it in the microwave for several seconds on a low power. I couldn't figure out how to work the microwave. I think I mostly melted the butter. The bagel got buttered, but there was none left. I had to find a zip loc for the bagel that I didn't eat. (There were two, I only ate one). Instead of putting the bagel in the bag, I opened a new bottle of mirilax powder and dumped some of it into the bag. I didn't notice that until the next morning!
Sometimes I have done weird things with my meds. Once, I took my morning meds in the middle of the night. Once, when I was getting ready to go on a trip, I took my night meds twice. My meds come in little packets in a large roll for the month. Each packet is for a specific day and time. I took my nightly meds, then I tore off my morning and noon meds for the next day (because I would need them for traveling), and I was going to pack the rest of my meds. I saw that my night meds hadn't been taken (forgetting that they were tomorrow's night meds), and I took them before packing my meds. Whoops!
I plan to talk to my staff about some of the weird things I am doing. (I have staff that come to my house a couple of times a week to help me with the tasks of daily living). But, I can't tell them about the meds because technically I should have followed the med error policy each time and I didn't because before those I have never had a med error.
I was hoping the weird behavior would stop, or become less frequent, but instead it's happening more often.
There's nothing here!