Ways to lessen or prevent episodes of sleep walking?

Question

I am currently on medication to dampen my sleep walking. The medication is amitriptilyne, but lately it seems to be having no effect. For the past few weeks I have been getting up at around 3am for a nightly sleepwalk in which I go to the fridge, get food, and take it back to my bed. I don't usually eat it, but it is getting ruined being out of the fridge. Are there any methods or other effective medication to help prevent sleep walking? I'm ruining quite a bit of food. When sleepwalking I seem to have full cognitive ability so locks and other mechanisms don't work.

Answer 1

Have you spoken to your doctor about this? This doesn’t seem like the best place to ask for advice about this. Talk to a health care provider that specializes in sleep disorders. Is this a side effect of the medication? If your medication is no longer effective you should talk to your doctor because maybe there is another medication you could try.