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Nocturnal seizure... what is it?!

Tue, 07/24/2007 - 22:24
Hi all I am new to this forum, and just stumbled across it while trying to search for an explanation of something that happened to me. So my story is... I was on holiays, so was fairly tired after a flight from Australia to New York. I fell asleep around 1:00am and my boyfriend woke up to me at 2:00am having a seizure. Apparently i looked like i was being possessed (charming, i know!). Basically it wasnt jerky movements, but i just lost control of every body movement - i wet the bed, my face muscles had gone all droopy, I couldnt talk except to slur a little bit, and I couldnt sit up. I woke up to the ambulance guys, then within 5 minutes I realised where I was and was starting to be able to speak again and by the time i was in the emergency room, within maybe 20 mins, I was fully functional again. My MRI and CT scans came back totally clear and the neurologist said that it must have been a random seizure (ie he could see no reason for it except possibly exhaustion). My family has a long history of strokes but the doctors said this wasnt a stroke. Does anyone know if this sounds like a type of epilepsy?? If anyone could give me ANY info that would be great. Anyone with a similar story etc. Thank you so much in advance!! alana

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Re: Nocturnal seizure... what is it?!

Submitted by sparker001 on Mon, 2010-05-03 - 21:37

FruitedPlain - you can do some quick searches on this forum and find lots of references to people having trouble with Keppra.  I seem to read more negatives than positives about it.  Some have "Kepprage", i.e. irritability to the point of bouts of rage.  And some have deep depression as well.  Talk to your doctor and see if there might not be some other medication that might work better for you.

I'm reading more and more about people finding that smoking marijuana seems to help as well, but not sure how you feel about that.  It's legal there in CA, right?

Keep up with the exercise, staying active, etc.  It is a good way to work off the stress of the whole seizure reality show we call our lives.  Long as the anemia doesn't get in your way.

Take good care!

--sparker

FruitedPlain - you can do some quick searches on this forum and find lots of references to people having trouble with Keppra.  I seem to read more negatives than positives about it.  Some have "Kepprage", i.e. irritability to the point of bouts of rage.  And some have deep depression as well.  Talk to your doctor and see if there might not be some other medication that might work better for you.

I'm reading more and more about people finding that smoking marijuana seems to help as well, but not sure how you feel about that.  It's legal there in CA, right?

Keep up with the exercise, staying active, etc.  It is a good way to work off the stress of the whole seizure reality show we call our lives.  Long as the anemia doesn't get in your way.

Take good care!

--sparker

Re: Nocturnal seizure... what is it?!

Submitted by fruitedplain on Tue, 2010-05-04 - 11:33

CA will vote on marijuana legalization this fall with Prop 215. I say "high time!" (forgive me)

I'm going to start looking into this though I have a long-standing aversion to putting anything into my lungs after 20+ years of tobacco addiction. In my decades of long distance training runs with the great San Jose Quicksilver club, you could always identify the former smokers as they climbed the hills: they wheeze a little.

If pot legalization happens it's expected to devistate the economy of the Trinity Alps region of CA, not just from the illicit grower side, but the enforcement compliment employed there. Some estimate a 40% income drop.

As mentioned, I have to hang in with my Keppra to demonstrate due diligence for the DMV, but I want to get off this ASAP. My MD would probably give me an MJ-permit as she was giddily offerring me anti-depressants when I mentioned my Keppra side effects. I've so far declined the offer hoping I can get thru life without a drug induced happy face, but we'll see.

thx for the input

 

CA will vote on marijuana legalization this fall with Prop 215. I say "high time!" (forgive me)

I'm going to start looking into this though I have a long-standing aversion to putting anything into my lungs after 20+ years of tobacco addiction. In my decades of long distance training runs with the great San Jose Quicksilver club, you could always identify the former smokers as they climbed the hills: they wheeze a little.

If pot legalization happens it's expected to devistate the economy of the Trinity Alps region of CA, not just from the illicit grower side, but the enforcement compliment employed there. Some estimate a 40% income drop.

As mentioned, I have to hang in with my Keppra to demonstrate due diligence for the DMV, but I want to get off this ASAP. My MD would probably give me an MJ-permit as she was giddily offerring me anti-depressants when I mentioned my Keppra side effects. I've so far declined the offer hoping I can get thru life without a drug induced happy face, but we'll see.

thx for the input

 

Re: Nocturnal seizure... what is it?!

Submitted by sparker001 on Tue, 2010-05-04 - 19:05

You are welcome.  I also would have an aversion to the effects of the smoke in my lungs - I totally understand where you are coming from.  But assuming so many posts on this forum are true - RE: the relief people have found using MJ for their seizures - well maybe that is another avenue to consider.  But yes, if you can keep on keeping on with the Keppra, until your doc feels you have truly given it a shot, that might be good as well.  If the side effects get too awful, though, don't be afraid to say "enough is enough".

Hang in there.

--sparker

You are welcome.  I also would have an aversion to the effects of the smoke in my lungs - I totally understand where you are coming from.  But assuming so many posts on this forum are true - RE: the relief people have found using MJ for their seizures - well maybe that is another avenue to consider.  But yes, if you can keep on keeping on with the Keppra, until your doc feels you have truly given it a shot, that might be good as well.  If the side effects get too awful, though, don't be afraid to say "enough is enough".

Hang in there.

--sparker

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