Working out and Seizures

Re: Working out and Seizures

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Sun, 2011-05-22 - 00:34

Hi Dart, Having epilepsy doesn't prevent the possibility of also having other disorders resulting in paroxysmal attacks. While on a zero carbohydrate Dr. Atkin's Diet, I had bouts of hypoglycemia that were different from my epileptic seizures, but still having many characteristics of seizures. I later discovered that I could somewhat induce attacks of hypoglycemia through reactive hypoglycemia tests. The type of test I took was just repeatedly measuring blood sugar levels, while abrubtly consuming a large amount sugar, and mapping blood sugar levels for the sharp increase, and then the overly sharp drop of reactive hypoglycemia, before the levels would rise back to more normal levels after the precipitous drop (too big of a drop, or too long lasting, can be fatal). Both painful and painless migraines I developed in my last semesters of university also confuse some doctors into thinking I'm having epileptic seizures (other doctors try to tell me that my simple partial epileptic seizures are just migraines). Then, as in my previous response, I think I have LQTS that was also the originating cause of neurological damage resulting in epilepsy. LQTS can mimic epileptic seizures itself, especially during strenuous excercises. Very brief gaps in consciousness during heavy weight-lifting exercises brought weight-lifting to an end for me, because the most noticeable result was dropping anything heavy that I was hanging on to during an attack, getting everyone's attention and then some. LQTS is more frequent with epilepsy than once thought: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677528/ Paramedics can also mistake a frontal subdural hematoma as being post-ictal neurological events of an epileptic seizure. Tadzio