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Sleep Apnea causing epilepsy?!

Tue, 01/03/2006 - 23:40
Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing
Hello everyone, I hope everybody had a great christmas/new year! I had a question about Sleep Apnea causing epi. on the day after christmas I had another tonic clonic which was so violent that I dislocated my right arm, anyway, when I went to see my GP about it all, he suggested I go to a sleep clinic to see if I have Sleep Apnea. I know that lack of sleep can trig sometimes, but my doc seems to believe that my epi could be caused by Sleep Apnea. Has anyone else heard of this? I've always had trouble sleeping, since infency, but I never thought much of it, and now they tell me that I have an abnormally narrow airway, which probably means Sleep Apnea, which might have caused my epi!!!!!!!!! If anyone knows anything about this please give me more info, it would be much appriciated!

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Re: Sleep Apnea causing epilepsy?!

Submitted by kyri on Thu, 2009-11-19 - 13:49
The Cleveland Institute did a study on how the treatment of sleep apnea effects epiliepsy. In the study, participants used a sleep apnea machine, and the results showed that treating the sleep apnea also resulting in fewer seizures.

My husband had sleep apnea

Submitted by Sleep apnea the deadly sleep on Wed, 2017-12-27 - 18:24
My husband had sleep apnea which was overlooked as he had nocturnal fits ..which meant his sleep apnea kicked in he would stop breathing then this caused a epileptic fit then this would restart his heart just over a year ago he had a sleep apnea attack he didnt fit n his heart was too weak to restart n he died 

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