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seizures at night
Mon, 01/03/2005 - 18:50I have a question to ask anyone out there. I have complex partial seizures. I do not know what happened, but this morning I woke up and my back was killing me. I would like to know if it is possible if someone like myself could have a seizure at night, and hurt their back by doing something to it? Reason I ask this is because I did nothing that I can think of that would have hurt my back this much
Re: seizures at night
Submitted by kfielding on Wed, 2008-07-30 - 01:15
About a month ago i experienced my first seizure. It happened around midnight just shortly after i had fallen asleep. My boyfriend ( who sleeps pretty hard) awoke to me having a grand mal seizure. Of course he thought i was dying and wasn't exactly sure what to do for me all he could do was smack my face to try and make me come to. My eyes were rolled back into my head, I was foaming at the mouth with my back arched and jerking my body. When i finally came to about 5 mins later he instructed me to get my clothes on when i tried to stand up (oblivious to what had just happened) I fell to the floor, as my body was terribly weak after this episode. When we got into the truck i felt extremely nauseous, and i asked him what was going on why were we going to the hospital, he couldn't tell me because he was driving soo fast and was crying. The ER nurse got me in right away after he described what happened and they put me on IV for fluids. They did a CT scan and blood work all which came back normal. Now i am on a wait list for an EEG and an MRI I have not heard anything about the EEG but have been booked for the MRI 3MONTHS from now!!!! uuugggh if there was actually something wrong with me it will perhaps have progressed by then wouldn't it??? Anyhow they did not put me on any meds as this was my first experience and informed me that 1% of the population will have a seizure during their lifetime and may never have one again. I am kinda freaked out because before I had it I was getting terrible migraine headaches and i had another one the other day, and now my boyfriend has left until the end of the summer and i have no one to watch over me at night if it happens again. Needless to say i did not drive the day I had the migraine because i was scared i was on the verge of another one. The only sign i had the next day was i felt very "out of it" and my body was extremely tense and sore. So i guess yeah it is totally possible to hurt yourself while having a seizure in your sleep and not even know it.