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Extremely Deep Sleep

Posted by CORNETO on September 05, 2002 at 05:15:15:
Ok, well here is the long version--sorry it's a long read. I have a 22yr old daughter who has recently been working herself into the ground, and it caught up with her finally when she had a weekend off. Anyway, so here's the deal. The first night she returned home she was absolutely exhausted. I mean I've never seen anything like it--half way through dinner she said she didn't have the energy to pick up her fork anymore, then fell fast asleep on the sofa while the family was watching tv and visiting. She was asleep for awhile and soon went into REM sleep. We were all kind of chuckling b/c she was so out of it, mumbling incoherent things, eyes rolling around to the point of her lids opening and closing...My wife urged me to get her to bed so I spent a few minutes shaking her out of her dreams. She woke up completely disoriented, still partly dream-mumbling, and we helped her to bed. I'm not sure she was fully awake on the trip to her bedroom. She was asleep again before her head hit the pillow, my wife covered her up, and we left her to her dreams. This was around around 9:00p.m. So when our other daughter went to bed at 11 (they share a room) Melissa came back and got us, saying Sarah was snoring so loudly she couldn't possibly sleep. So my wife and I went in there to check things out and Sarah was way out of it. Laying on her back, mouth hanging open, snoring louder than I've ever heard anyone snore. This is weird b/c she doesn't normally snore, she's not overweight or anything, so maybe it is just pure exhaustion? My wife told me to roll Sarah over onto her side to stop the snoring but it made no difference, so soon we rolled her back over to her back to try to wake her up. We both called to her loudly with no response. My wife began patting her cheeks and saying "wake up baby" and no response. I turned on the lamp and we continued trying to shake her, pat her cheeks, and talk to her. My wife pulled open her eyelids several times and Sarah's eyes were rolled almost all the way back in her head. We couldn't get any kind of a response from her, no matter how much shaking, patting, calling, and eyelid opening we did. Finally I lifted her out of bed and carried her into the living room so that my other daughter could rest. Sarah didn't respond to my moving her either. The weird thing is this loud snoring in the middle of the night thing happened again the next night. Sarah is a trim, perfectly healthy girl who normally has no unusual sleeping issues. This came completely out of the blue. I don't think it's sleep apnea as her breathing never stopped or had any weird patterns--just slow, deep, and loud snoring, and unresponsive. Does anyone have any guesses as to why we suddenly could not wake her up with all the things we tried? It was weird holding her eyelids open seeing her eyes all rolled back in her head. I for one was kind of creeped out. Ok, well that's what happened. Maybe exhaustion just sent her into some kind of super-deep delta sleep? Suggestions welcome! Thanks in advance.

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Re: Extremely Deep Sleep Doug H. 21:15 9/06/02 (3)

Re: Re: Extremely Deep Sleep CORNETO 11:41 9/08/02 (2)

Re: Re: Re: Extremely Deep Sleep SGS 18:31 9/14/02 (1)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Extremely Deep Sleep CORNETO 06:21 9/16/02 (0)

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