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Seizures and Bladder Control

Sat, 09/18/2010 - 13:49

 

 Once again I return to Epilepsy.com due to a new addition to my seizures. 

As you have surmised from the subject line, bladder control has occurred during two nighttime seizures this year. 

I assume both seizures are complex partial seizures (my signiture seizure); however, recent reading on this subject has led me to believe these seizures are tonic-clonic seizures. 

If you are having the same problem, or have more information on bladder control - how to control a bladder (if possible), type of seizures typical with bladder control and any addditional information on this subject, I would appreciate your input. 

At this point, any information willl be great help.

Best regards,

Sprtgrl99

Comments

Re: Seizures and Bladder Control

Submitted by cass30 on Tue, 2011-08-16 - 23:56
For probably 15+ years now the first thing that comes into my head when i get a simple partial, complex partial seizure that goes on a bit long is to go to the toilet to empty my bladder. This is probably due to me wetting my pants in school back when i was 15 and psychologically has stayed with me ever since then even though never happened again even though i have had a tonic clonic in the toilet which isnt the best place to go when you feel a seizure coming on to put yourself into a confined area where it is also difficult for people to get to you to help. Even after temperol lobe surgery and greatly reduced seizures now i still continously empty my bladder for even small simple seizures if i feel there is anything there - habit at this stage now i suppose. Not much advise there just my own experiences.

Re: Seizures and Bladder Control

Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Wed, 2011-08-17 - 01:19
Hi Cass30, Bladder concerns and sensations during some partial seizures before secondarily generalized tonic-clonic seizures resulted in many of my injuries while being in a bathroom, with 911 first responders providing extrication. During interrupted sleep, heading for the bathroom was next to an automatic dangerous response, but then, when I would seek a safe position on an open surface area, day or night, when much of a seizure warning came while I would be fully awake, the surrounding social response was (still is with some partials) often more hazardous in other ways. In open public, I carry recording GPS/seizure equipment for time, place, events records, and some of the darnnest things are said by officials too!!! I'll probably be waltzing with the USA ADA again in court someday over the equipment, since the police arrest so many people for recording police conduct. Tadzio

Re: Seizures and Bladder Control

Submitted by Masterjen on Wed, 2010-09-22 - 00:17
I was diagnosed with sz 4 months ago, and this has happened to me twice at night. I know I have night-time sz, so I guess this helped confirm that :p Now every time I wake up with a sz I totally panic that I might have wet the bed again. It's a real blow to the ego, huh?! What I've done as a precaution is place a plastic garbage bag on my mattress and a bath towel on top of that, and then my bottom bedsheet over the towel. It looks like a regularly made bed otherwise, but I sleep better and don't wake up in a major panic if I wake up at night. The underwear is a good idea, too, but If I have a "bad" night, I tend to get sweaty and the underwear just isn't comfortable to me for that reason.

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