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Turning Blue
Tue, 04/11/2006 - 15:14My wife tells me my face/lips turn blue and I stop breathing during a complex partial seizure which scares the heck out of her. Does this happen to anyone else?
CraigV 53 today:-)
Re: Re: Turning Blue
Submitted by sgritchie on Fri, 2006-08-11 - 05:43
Hi Craig, I had a seizure in my sleep which I believe was triggered by Symptoms of Sleep Apnea, seems to be a correlation between epileptics and sleep apnea. Lying on my back asleep, let out a scream, started to choke and my husband said i had turned blue who quickly laid me on the floor and turned me on my side. Gave him a hell of a fright. In 17 yrs he'd never seen me have a seizure. One good thing came out of it, he helps alot more around the house now. Susan