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Nocturnal Seizures / Night seizures
Wed, 09/30/2009 - 19:45Comments
Re: Nocturnal Seizures / Night seizures
Submitted by 2nd-2-None on Thu, 2013-06-06 - 14:31
2nd-2-None
In regards to "night seizures," I have been tested for sleep apnea and several other sleep disorders. The final verdict was that I was suffering from Myoclonic Epilepsy/Seizures. This type of Epilepsy causes endless fatigue due to the fact that it's only trigger is when your right about to fall asleep or awaken by sleep. For instance, if I have trouble sleeping at night, I try to make up for the lack of sleep through the day. However, when I try to sleep in the day the symptoms are still there...only worse. These Seizures feel as if your having a dream where your falling off a building and your body jolts.
I hope this helps anybody out there. My proper diagnosis was not made until I had a five day sleep study with a nurse constantly sitting by my side in a chair. Luckily the nurses changed shifts and made me feel as ease, heck, they even made me laugh.
Keep your heads up.
2nd-2-None
In regards to "night seizures," I have been tested for sleep apnea and several other sleep disorders. The final verdict was that I was suffering from Myoclonic Epilepsy/Seizures. This type of Epilepsy causes endless fatigue due to the fact that it's only trigger is when your right about to fall asleep or awaken by sleep. For instance, if I have trouble sleeping at night, I try to make up for the lack of sleep through the day. However, when I try to sleep in the day the symptoms are still there...only worse. These Seizures feel as if your having a dream where your falling off a building and your body jolts.
I hope this helps anybody out there. My proper diagnosis was not made until I had a five day sleep study with a nurse constantly sitting by my side in a chair. Luckily the nurses changed shifts and made me feel as ease, heck, they even made me laugh.
Keep your heads up.
Re: Nocturnal Seizures / Night seizures
Submitted by johnmcd75 on Wed, 2013-05-29 - 18:03
Hello-
My son is 9 and has gelastic seizures at night, though they started in the day and now seem to be kept to night time with meds. He was having 40 of these episodes per day with the majority coming at night. Even with meds he has 5-10 each night-
He has had 1 tonic clonic seizure but was not on any meds at the time because the Doctors told us his seizures were a nervous tic. You have found someone else like you-
Hello-
My son is 9 and has gelastic seizures at night, though they started in the day and now seem to be kept to night time with meds. He was having 40 of these episodes per day with the majority coming at night. Even with meds he has 5-10 each night-
He has had 1 tonic clonic seizure but was not on any meds at the time because the Doctors told us his seizures were a nervous tic. You have found someone else like you-