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What Causes A Person To Go Into Such Deep Sleep That They Do Not Awake Even When Called Or Shaken?

Posted on Thu, 16 Dec 2021

Question: Hi, My mother is 60 years old. She is suffering from hypertension, high cholesterol, high thyroid and osteoarthritis. She takes medicine for it. Now a strange symtoms is occurring. She becomes senseless in her sleep. It has occurred thrice till date. In first two occasions there was some heated argument with her eldest son but in third occasion there was nothing unusual. She is sleeping and we can see she is breathing properly but even if we call him in loud voice, shaking her body, she is not getting up from sleep. only when we pouring some water in her face she regains consciousness and everything seems normal to her after few minutes. Please help me what is this problem? What are the possible reasons for this unusual symptom? please help.

Answered by Dr. Raju A.T (39 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Please provide some more details

Detailed Answer:

Hi,

Can you please send me the list of medications she is on
Does she sweat profusely during the episode ?
Does she sleep in the day times?
Have you checked her blood sugar levels in the night, especially during the episode ?
Is it hypo or hyper thyroid she is suffering from, If possible please share recent thyroid reports here.

Waiting for your response,

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Raju A.T (14 minutes later)

Hi, Please find the answers known to me 1) for list of medicines I have attached prescription 2) No, she is not sweating profusely 3)Yes sometimes she sleeps in Day time 4) No, I haven't checked her blood sugar level at night time 5) She is hypothyroid

Answered by Dr. Raju A.T (33 hours later)

Brief Answer:
Consultation

Detailed Answer:

Hi,

I have gone through the medication list she is on. None amongst them can cause any such problems in the sleep or consciousness.

This appears to be a disturbance in the sleep. I would recommend her to take a dose of sedative in the night which can provide her better sound sleep and prevent such sleep disturbances.

Do consult your treating doctor for the same.

If the sedatives do not help, then I would recommend a visit to Psychiatrist for further evaluation and counselling.

Hope, I answered your query.

Regards,

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar