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Night-time Seizures
Sun, 03/13/2005 - 08:44My question(s) is this. When I have seizures in my sleep I usually pull muscles in my arms, upper back and neck. It is very painful. How can I go through a seizure or seizures that causes that much pain and remain asleep? Do I wake up and not realize it? I wish I could remember if my eyes are already open when I 'awake' or not but I don't remember anything. I was wondering if anyone out there would have the answers. Thanks! -Spiz
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RE: RE: Night-time Seizures
Submitted by Gretchen on Thu, 2005-03-10 - 11:36
Do either of you have tonic/clonic seizures, times you known you had them, and felt similar to this? I ask because I have nocturnals. Occasionally I'll have a tonic/clonic which my husband has witnessed because my dog alerts him by barking. I'm unaware of it until at the end of the sz? My bladder releases, which happens to many. I don't remember the sz however. I have other nocturnal sz's in my sleep that aren't tonic/clonic's and it's really surprising to me that the only clue I have is - my bladder releases. But as I became more aware I was having nocturnals I started realizing that I'd try to make a spring to the bathroom and often I couldn't get my legs under me, they werew weak or just not working yet, was confused where the bathroom was, other typical symptoms of post ictal. And yes, I'll wake up in the morning and feel very slugged out, often have to go back to bed. My cognition is intact I think but on the slow spin cycle. I'll wake up with a headache too.Are we having fun yet! (smile)Gretchen
RE: RE: RE: Night-time Seizures
Submitted by spiz on Thu, 2005-03-10 - 19:30
Hi Gretchen! My bladder also releases. I should own stock in Serenity Corp. I also wake up with a headache that nothing I've tried can touch. Most of the time I have to go back to bed but there are times I feel too anxious, keyed up or I just plain hurt to bad to lay back down. I've hurt so bad all day.I have absolutely no memory of the nightime seizures. I have had T/C's that I can remember going into,no memory again until I 'come to'. The best I can describe how it felt is like a warpy weird feeling wave goes over me and through my head. It feels like my eyes lock and I have the sensation of tilting forward.And this is all at the same time. And then nothing until I come around. It might be my imagination,but it really seems like my head and muscles hurt worse afterwards with the ones I can remember going into than with the ones I can't. What about you? -Spiz
RE: Night-time Seizures
Submitted by AvidRunner22 on Thu, 2005-03-10 - 09:38
i have no answers about nite time seizures..but I have questions. I wake up some mornings, just feeling really cruddy and sore, and some times i will have scratches on me and bruises on me that were not there before i went to bed. i take tylenol PM to help me sleep at night and i have been doing so since a little after christmas, because i can't sleep through the nite without taking something. and unfortunately, even that isn't enough and i still wake up several times over the course of the night. i never took any of it the 4 days i was hospitalized for my video EEG and nothing like this happened, and once i got back out and started taking it again, it started again. i'm pretty sure the acetominophen in it won't do it but maybe the diphenhydramine in it is. does anyone know if that sleep aid stuff can cause seizures...? I wake up some nights over and over again, I'm wondering the same thing as you spiz...