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It can't be restful for people who twitch for hours my husband has some big jumps sometimes that wake him up and he bruised his foot on our old bed kicking in his sleep, it had a wooden footboard.

Thanks x

Hi lemontree, bloods back shows low phosphate, doctor wants to do test again to make sure, in case test was wrong. Googled it but no twitching side effect of low phosphate in any of the info online. he had really bad twitching the other night, woke me up at 1am and 2am kicking out.

Thanks for sharing x

It must just be stress levels, it is truly awful trying to sleep with somebody when they are doing it. Maybe it's a man thing :-(

No not yet blood test next week x

Yes hopefully it's a start in the right direction.

By the way a friend has recommended a site called combat stress, she says they are really good. She think her husband has ptsd but he strongly denies it, they have been very supportive to her.

Thankyou I will look at that. Thanks again for today x

I suspect, strongly, in fact I suspect a lot of ex forces do have it. As many have seen horrendous things but it's a culture of stiff upper lip and get on with it. There's other things as well. He rarely talks about the horrible thing, theres been a few other bits that have made me suspect (as...

No hypervigilence we have twitching and the hymnopmpic stuff in our house I don't even know if it's ptsd related but I have a high stress job and have been attacked at work as have many of my colleagues. Loads of us have sleep problems like insomnia. My husband has ex forces background and then...

Maybe we should start a spouse support thread!

I will but the tablets he has been taking are antihistamines, as he has some allergies that make him itch. I never knew they could cause twitching! Will post on this thread if we find anything out. Thank you for the support xx

Back from docs gonna send him for blood tests. Also some tablets he is on have the side effect of twitching! But at least they are sending him for tests to rules things out.

I can also suffer sleep disorder I have hynopompic hallucinations, probably due to 20 years of shift work and a high stress job. We are a right pair!! We do have a laugh about it to be honest as I've woken him loads of times telling him some gibberish in my sleep! Sometimes though after hours of...