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seizures at night

Mon, 01/03/2005 - 18:50

I have a question to ask anyone out there.  I have complex partial seizures.  I do not know what happened, but this morning I woke up and my back was killing me.  I would like to know if it is possible if someone like myself could have a seizure at night, and hurt their back by doing something to it?  Reason I ask this is because I did nothing that I can think of that would have hurt my back this much

 

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Re: RE: RE: seizures at night

Submitted by AndrewITA on Wed, 2007-08-01 - 08:55
well, i can say that i have the same your experiences. I had about 14 seizures in the last 2 years, always nocturnal, after 10-30 minutes I fall asleep. when I wake up the first thing I'll do is run to the bathroom to be sick, and then I'll go back to the bedroom to collapse on my bed. It feels like I've run a marathon. After that I'll spend the whole day sleeping and then through the night as well. The whole experience wastes between 3 - 5 days as they'll be spent either sleeping in bed or watching daytime tv. I'll not be in the mood to talk to anyone either over the phone or face to face. I'm on Keppra (2x1500mg) + Depakin (750mg), but it doesn't work.

RE: seizures at night

Submitted by gsness on Wed, 2004-12-22 - 09:44
Hi Jeremy!You bet it could be night seizures. I barely have mine under control and I still wake up bruised and sore sometimes. (My wife usually notices these because my jerking around almost kicks her out of bed!)Yuletide Blessings!gsness

RE: RE: seizures at night

Submitted by kodankk on Sat, 2004-12-25 - 17:17
Yes, you can have them at night -- my son (age 7) was recently diagnosed. He had his first seizure in July just before waking (it was a tonic/clonic) and then began having a series of partial seizures in October just after falling asleep. It was after the October seizures that we placed him on meds.Our neuro explained that the stages of entering and exiting sleep are similar, which helps join together the odd timing.I've witnessed the ones that start after he falls asleep -- while their frequency can't be predicted, their timing can be -- within the first 5 to 15 minutes of his falling asleep. As parents, we dread that time period -- but we also feel we need to be there for him .........just in case.........to give him a comforting face to see.Our neuro hasn't been able to isolate his condition to temporal lobe or benign rolandic without a more thorough EEG. Since his seizures are generally under control (1 since the start of the meds -- and he is barely at the minimum necessary blood levels) we have not yet decided whether to put him through the more thorough EEG (we live in a very rural area so such a test is an all day drawn out affair). He is handling it remarkably well -- he gets a little scared after he has a seizure but doesn't let it get him down in every day life -- he regularly swims and skis.My question -- has anyone else had the experience of having seizures that occur at a very specific point in time everyday? Does anyone know if this regular timing is unusual or not?

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