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How do you know if you're having seizures at night?
Wed, 10/25/2006 - 19:49A week or so ago, I noticed I had a pretty sore bruise on my elbow, and I have no idea how I got it. Then a few days later I found one on my forearm, still, I don't know where it came from. Also about a month or so before that I noticed I had bitten my tongue on the side and it was really sore, and once again, I do not remember doing that. I don't know if it's just my memory loss,a nd I don't remember doing this stuff or am I having seizures at night. All three were different situations. Any comments would be helpful!
Nichole
Re: Most of my seizures happened
Submitted by dmh on Thu, 2006-12-07 - 12:26
Nocturnal means you are having your seizure while you are asleep. Some people don't even realize that it is happening to them. I wake up from having them with the aura (mine is a feeling of fear and absentmindedness, followed by a headache and I am usually flushed). Some people are like me and are simply having a partial or a complex partial, but there are others that will have a Grand Mal by the way it sounds. Lucky for my husband I am not kicking and biting him in his sleep. Hee Hee ;-)