Relationship Memory loss? sleep walking? nothing seems to help my suffering hubbie :(

[Sunshine71]

Hi all
Its been a little while....
I hope you are well....
So.... my sufferer had a VERY hectic week last week with his work. He was away too and said he got on well.
He comes back home and the house is a trigger ...

He is sleeping in the spare room and for 2 nights I wake up and bring him back to bed as he is sleep walking again now. The 2nd night our front door was wide open.... he could have been down the road :( I saw it at 4am and we have our 11 year old son in the house.

I am wide awake waking up with anxiety.. pains and shattered as I don't really get back to sleep.
He doesn't remember sleepwalking.
Thursday seemed quite good then it all went wrong in the evening.... so he stayed with a friend.
I call him Friday at 1pm - and he doesn't know who I am.... we have been together for nearly 30 years :(
The mental health unit tell me to call the police... he wont answer his phone... he did a few times and kept asking who I was... then hangs up.
He ends up at his brothers about 2 hours drive away and stays the night... he has got into a fight too and has cuts on his face.
He came back this afternoon and after a while he seemed a bit better in himself - we had some toast and he said he was going to see his mum.
Then he calls our son by the name of the little boy who died in the car accident of 30 years ago....... I am mortified.... I asked him what our sons name is and he said he doesn't know....
:(

Nothing seems to help my hubbie..... I am scared he is really going insane.... I love him.... but I don't know him .... PTSD is evil....
It destroys so many lives....
I just don't know where to turn...

Nothing seems to help my poor hubbie.

I have lost my best friend, my husband...

Does any memory loss effect your sufferer?
Do they sleep walk?
Anything help??

Feeling scared and tired... Sunshine :(

 

[Snowflakes]

Hi Sunshine. My sufferer experienced conditions similar to your hubbie. We found out it was a side effect of 2 medicines. One was a new med and the other a dosage change, both at the same time. Has your husband's meds been changed or has he abruptly stopped taking them?

Take care, I wish your family well.

 

[Sunshine71]

Thank you Snowflakes... my hubbie does take medication... but really for is heart... PTSD led to him having a heart attack just before he was 40 ... I know when things get really bad he takes a Lorozapan and they have said to take Respiridone but he hasnt taken that yet....

So no medication change :( :( xx

 

[Snowflakes]

Sunshine, I'm not saying this could be your husbands issue, just sharing mine. My sufferer had severe memory issues and became psychotic due primarily to the long term use of Ativan (Lorazepam). The dosage issue came up with her Venlafaxine but the psychiatrist (who did not put her on the Ativan) attributed her issues to the long term use of the Ativan and her age. Because of the memory issues, she was unaware that she was increasing her own use of the Ativan so I needed to take over dispensing her meds.

I hope this helps you.

 

[Sweetpea76]

Is he managing to get any sleep at all? Sometimes mine gets so exhausted from lack of sleep he almost seems drunk. Could lack of sleep be affecting his memory?

 

[LuckiLee]

My guy's memory gets worse by the day. But nothing as extreme as forgetting our names. He sounds like he's disassociating.

As for the sleep walking, when J was on Ambien it really messed him up. One night I was still up watching tv he woke up made an awesome batch of nachos, watched a movie and was able to have conversation with me. Didn't remember ANY of it. Never took it again!

I'd start by checking his medicine as the others have suggested. Maybe he's on something you may not know about.

Sending you strength and guidance.
XO

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I sleep walk. I have ever since I was a child. I also disossoate to the point of moving from point A to point B, "waking up" and having idea how I got there. Once it was out my front door to a train track next to us which is very active. I have a service dog in training now that alerts me and does deep pressure therapy, lays on top of me so I cannot move, and also is trained to "tackle me", saftely jump up on me, knock me down, and then lays on me. I've trained him to do that but he has yet to need to do that.

Memory loss to that extent is a mystery to me. Maybe talk with his psychiatrist about possible medication side effects or even a drug interaction. Either way, his Drs need to know about this as if it is a drug interaction and he hurts himself, that's on them legally as they are prescribing the meds.

Also is there a possibility of self medication with illegal and/or street drugs? You may think he would never do that but I assure you. If he is pushed to a certian degree of wanting to stop symptoms he could.

I say y'all need to go talk to his Dr together. That way you can tell them of things you've witnessed that he may not remember.