Seizures while sleeping~

RE: RE: Seizures while sleeping~

Submitted by batman on Sat, 2005-02-19 - 10:11

Renezellweg,

First I want to say thank you for your compliments. But just so you, and everyone else who reads my reply, that I am not a doctor, nor any other type of health professional. I’ve just one of the millions of people with epilepsy. What I’ve learned about has been by surfing the Internet over and over, and then reading what I found over and over again. Even though I’m trying to become a mentor through the Epilepsy Foundation of America, I’m going to share what I found with anyone I can, whether it’s the support groups online or local support group near me. The number one problem people have about epilepsy is ‘FEAR’. And now I personally feel that the reason why is solely due to the lack of communication. Not know what questions to ask, and not finding or getting the ‘common sense’ correct answers to the questions when they are asked. There is one source with someone who discusses a lot of information about seizures & epilepsy, to people in a simple and so easy to understand way. This was at the S.E.E. Program I attended just last year in November 2004. For all the information available online about the S.E.E Program go to www.theseeprogram.com. The speaker, Robert Mittan, Ph. D, not only knows more about epilepsy than some neurologist do, he knows about up-to-date information as well. Dr. Mittan presents his two full day conference on weekends; yes weekends, Saturdays & Sundays. So check the website and look over the scheduled dates and locations by clicking on ‘Programs Dates’.

Ok, let me work more with what youÂ’ve explained.

Inside your two replies here so far, in the first one you said that youhave the complex partial seizures; and then in your second reply you said youbelieve that they are complex partial seizures, but you also mentioned in this same second reply that “they are finally referring [you] to a neurologist”.

Here’s some questions I’d like to ask just to find out more indepth details about what you’ve said. Have you ever been seen by a neurologist or epilepsy specialist? What was the type of doctor who told you that your diet may be contributing to the frequency of the ‘nighttime seizures’? Was this doctor a neurologist? Have you actually been diagnosed of having complex partial seizures, or any seizures at all?

You said that your husband informed you that you had seizures on a particular night. Ask him what heÂ’s actually seeing you doing and please pass that on to explain it to us. When a person is having a complex partial seizure, it can look like theyÂ’re sleep walking. But if what youÂ’re doing only happens while youÂ’re asleep then you may be actually sleepwalking, and not having any complex partial seizures. Yes, it is highly possible to have seizures due to sleep deprivation. This can happen even if the person having them doesnÂ’t have epilepsy at all.

My number question is this. Did you have any seizures and/or seizure-like feelings before you started working with any special diet/weight loss programs? If so, then what were those feelings and were they diagnosed by a neurological doctor as being actual seizures?

The scary part might not be from the seizure medications, but from the diet pills that could be the actual source, or part of the source, for the feelings youÂ’re having and possibly appearing to be seizures.

Please tell us your answers to these questions, and then we can explain information about the seizure medications if itÂ’s going to be necessary for you to be taking them. Drag on as much as you want, because the more you can tell us, gives us more of a chance to try and help you. ThatÂ’s what the support groups are here for, to communicate and help others to loose the fear about epilepsy.

Bruce J