Hi I've posted before and usually found solutions to problems but this one is beating me. My oh is now waking at 12/1am talking and waking me. I bought a chair bed for downstairs so I I can escape if it gets too bad, but now he gets up and follows me downstairs so my sleep I still disturbed.
These episodes usually last one or two hours then he will fall asleep but I'm left awake and its exhausting. Don't know how to deal with this!
OMG I am having
exactly the same problem with my husband and its doing my head in. He wakes initially to have a pee but wanders, going down to the ground floor cloakroom rather than the bathroom next to his bedroom
, if I wake and catch him in time, ensure he does a pee, get him back to bed he
may sleep through till 6ish, when he gets up and goes down for breakfast (which I leave out for him). He used to then go to living room and watch TV but now he just pesters me and wont let me sleep (I sleep in a different room). We have some 'better' nights and some worse when he gets difficult, refusing to stay in bed, but not happy to go down sit and watch TV either.
On top of this he has taken to following me around in the day too, even standing outside the bathroom door when I go to the toilet.
Re medication, I have a stingy supply of Zopiclone but theyre reluctant to hand it out because it adds to confusion. One night recently I gave it to him and he slept till six but peed on the floor, I guess because by then he was struggling to hold it and couldnt find the toilet in time (he isnt normally incontinent).
I also use Melatonin some nights with just limited benefit, but I feel it helps me get back to sleep!!!