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Family History Of Sleep Paralysis
by Arlene E.
(La Quinta, CA)
that all have the same thing.
My question is can it be hereditary? I'm also wondering if my children have it. I had a history of sleep walking when I was a kid and now my kids also do that.
Whenever I have SP attack there is always a whooshing sound that warns me that i am about to have an attack. most of the time i can still move and i get up and move around so it doesn't happen.
I have gone 2 years without an attack, until recently. I used to have it every week sometimes every night. it has no reason. I have tried to change sleeping patterns and destressing; nothing helps.
I am Native American Indian so as my culture puts it "it's a bad spirit trying to attack or enter my body". I don't know if this is true or not but i would just like it to stop happening. It is extremely scary and i seriously feel like i'm going to die. My husband recently witnessed this and it even scared him. He said it sounded like i couldn't breath and that i was wheezing. Please help! Any sdvice???
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