re: OT Parents- Night Terrors

My 11 year old daughter had them when she was between age 8-10. One night she was running a fever and went to bed. She came running down stairs around the house screaming "no" a hundred times. Her eyes were wide open but when we tried to talk to her and pick her up it made it worse. Her heart was racing. We called 911 and they came and by the time they got there she was ok and they thought it was a seizure.

She proceeded to do this every night for the next 4 months about 60-90 minutes after she went to bed. It really freaked us out at first but then we got used to it and just let her run its course each night. We had to make sure we didn't go to sleep before it happened because I was scared she would get outside one night. They eventually went away and would come back sporadically over the next two years. She hasn't had one in a year.