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[quote=Anonymous]My son had night terrors when he was that age and a for a few years beyond. As the OP and others know, they are quite intense most times. I can still remember them as if they were yesterday. He is now 15 years old.

His night terrors did eventually ease but then he began sleep walking. Only a few times here or there at first but it increased over the years until a point when he was up walking about the house, but fully asleep, multiple times a week. It was quite distruptive to his dad and I but he rarely remembered a thing the next morning. Had a full overnight sleep study done and he was found to have moderate to severe sleep apnea. He NEVER snored so apnea was not on our radar at all.

Turns out that in some kids night terrors are a result of sleep apnea (the terrors are the result of interruptions in specific sleep cycles and brief but repeated breathing disturbances) which then shift and manifest as sleep walking as a child ages. My son now sleeps with a cpap every night which allows him to have quality sleep. He no longer sleep walks when using the cpap.[/quote]

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