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stress cause night seizure?

Tue, 04/24/2007 - 08:42
Hi everyone, can someone tell me if tiredness and stress can cause nocturnal seizures in people with epilepsy even though they have never had a nocturnal seizure before? I'm asking because I'm pretty sure I had a noturnal seizure recently but as far as I know, I've never had one before. I have complex partial seizures quite often and if it wasn't for my medication I'd be having grand mals too. When ever I did have grand mal seizures at night, I always knew about them because I was awake at the time before it would happen or I'd wake up from my sleep and then have a seizure. I always knew. but recently my partner woke me up from my sleep because I leaped in the bed quite violantly and he thought I might be going into a seizure. I was confused when he woke me up and I fell asleep pretty quickly soon after that too. In the morning I woke up with blood on back of my hand from some where I was bleeding during the night. My guess was from mouth because my left cheek was a bit numb. My head was sore and my neck and shoulders were very stiff and sore. Later I discovered my head on the left side was sore to touch like a bruise but i dont remember banging it anytime. my partner didn't hear anything during the night either. do you think it's possible he was so fast asleep that he heard nothing? I have been stressed out lately you see with exams coming up and my grandad being not well and I need to know if it's possible for night seizures to suddenly occur in someone when it never did before. I have had seizures now for 20 years. any thoughts are welcome! Would be very much appreciate Thanks in advance Quirky

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Re: Re: stress cause night seizure?

Submitted by quirky on Tue, 2007-04-24 - 16:01
Hi Harrie I find that too. Stress does trigger seizures more for me too, but I never had a noturnal seizure before which is what I was concerned about the most really. My seizures are during the day or when I'm dosing off to sleep but I'd be awake, aware of them like. I've never had one asleep as far as I know. But thanks for your input, all comments are helpful and appreciated :-) cheers!

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