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Seizures and one-sided weakness

Fri, 01/02/2009 - 08:19

Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults

Out of idle curiosity, has anyone had this? I'll notice some mornings that my right side will be weak when I wake up. Not profoundly so, but enough to get my attention and make walking a bit interesting.

While not formally dx'd yet, I'm pretty sure I've been having nocturnal seizures (simple partials) since April of last year. However, my seizures changed about 2 months ago to include what I think are complex partials and that's when the right-sided weakness started. I'm concerned about having seizures in my sleep that I don't remember and wondering if the right-sided weakness could be related.

I have an appt with an Epi in 2 weeks, but was hoping to gather a bit of info prior to that regarding this. I know you guys aren't docs, but any advice or experience in this dept would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Comments

Re: Seizures and one-sided weakness

Submitted by pgd on Thu, 2010-01-21 - 11:11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function - http://www.hemihelp.org.uk/ - Best wishes.

Thank u so much my son is 3

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2014-05-09 - 16:25

Thank u so much my son is 3 and gets all the above paralysis after seizures mostly at night comes right eventually but has long term weekness and very bad confusion most days. Intil now I taught it was just him.... Bad headaches r frequent now and seizures r worse. He has TC, absence seizure and some partial seizures.. Can ye tell me how ot affects emotionally afrer a seizure plz x

I've had the same. My wife

Submitted by .....666..... on Tue, 2018-03-20 - 20:16

I've had the same. My wife rang 999 as I was showing signs of a stroke. I was taken to a central London hospital on blue lightswith a suspected stroke. 5 days later I've still got pins and needles in my foot all time. I was told it would get better but it's just annoying

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