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New to Seizures

Wed, 04/21/2004 - 23:34
Hi, I am 52 years old and just had my first two seizures on the same day, out of the blue. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else in my age bracket, how you are coping with it, or if there is any advice from anyone that can help me understand this. Thanks

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RE: New to Seizures

Submitted by tibet2 on Wed, 2004-04-21 - 23:34
hi, yeah - E can just come out of the blue. funny how the things we weren't worried about can be the ones that catch us! i'm very sorry to hear of this. you are absolutely right - e can just come out of nowhere. i'm really glad you were able to have the scans and rule out anything insideous. so that's really good news! it might not feel like it right now - but that is excellent news and i am happy for you on that count. you don't want seizures + anything.... be sure to cut yourself some slack while you are adjusting to tegretol. you might need to take a nap once in awhile or just go a little easy on yourself until you are used to it. if you feel a little tired or a little "weird" at first don't be too worried about it. you will almost certainly get used to it. i found that it was a bad idea for me to increase my meds just before i had something important to do - that it was better to increase the day after. live and learn. just because you feel an aura does not neccessarily mean that you will have another TCS. once you have enough med in your system it will hopefully stop the seizure from generalizing. if you do have another aura just try to stay calm and get yourself out of harm's way. it's pretty strange stuff some of this seizure stuff. feeling "weird" in ways that you can't really accurately describe. i don't think you could have stopped those seizures the other day..... you didn't know what it could mean. even stopping your yard work wouldn't have been much protection from a seizure. unless, of course, you want to argue with a teenager that yard work is bad for you and they should take over that job ;-)

RE: New to Seizures

Submitted by seeker2 on Wed, 2004-04-21 - 12:54
Hi .I read with interest that all the tests came back as they did-normal and whilst seizures can and do occur at any age and have no cause as such for the apparent triggering of them.As we are reading from Limeridge's account of the lady who she had surgery with.For peace of mind have you enquired as to diabetes being a cause of your experience.The extract below is taken from the link I've put up. if there was no twitching at all, just a sudden blanking out, as in a faint, then it may have been a faint if the victim recovered promptly after lying down. In an epileptic seizure, it usually takes minutes or hours to recover. Common Causes: Injury or trauma to the headInfectionBrain tumor (30% to 40% of patients with brain tumors have a seizure)High fever or heatstrokeEpilepsy (seizures occur in a predictable pattern)Diabetes (seizures can occur when blood sugar level is too low)http://www.drkoop.com/ency/article/003200.htm

RE: New to Seizures

Submitted by bnthrdonethat on Wed, 2004-04-21 - 13:16
Wow.. you're so lucky to have had such a complete workup right away! MRI's and CT's can rule out some of the nasty causes of adult onset sz's, but eeg's are really unreliable unless they do 24 hour monitoring. The one thing NO one has mentioned before was toxins. Exposure to certain things cause sudden onset seizures in animals all the time; they can range from insecticides, formaldehydes in carpeting, cleaning agents and things like that. I'm suprised they started you on meds right away though. The other thing worth mentioning is progesterone. I didn't notice if you were male of female, but my sz's were aggrivate when I was put on hormone replacement. Estrogen really caused a problem.. progesterone cream REALLY helped!I'm now on a compounded form of estrogen that stops the symptoms without aggrivating the sz's.Hope all this helps.. Good luck!

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