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Seizures while sleeping? How can I tell if Im having them?
Thu, 04/24/2008 - 14:30Comments
Re: Seizures while sleeping? How can I tell if Im having them?
Submitted by sandinmyears on Sun, 2008-09-07 - 18:22
Sometimes I'll have a migraine-like headache the next day, but usually I don't usually know if I've had a nocturnal seizure-- until someone else tells me. Recently, though, I've been more tired. I've also been having more auras than I normally do. I visited family in July and my father told me I'd had one the first evening I was there, so I do suspect I'm having them again.
Talked to my doctor about this, but unless I'm hooked up to an EEG, there's not much I can do to find out other than asking someone to be with me. My daughter offered her bedroom, (sleeping near her), for a little while so she can let me know. I might take her up on it. I think I'd go for the floor and not a cot though. Might be safer. ;)
Would be nice to find a tape recorder that would run for 8 hours.
Sometimes I'll have a migraine-like headache the next day, but usually I don't usually know if I've had a nocturnal seizure-- until someone else tells me. Recently, though, I've been more tired. I've also been having more auras than I normally do. I visited family in July and my father told me I'd had one the first evening I was there, so I do suspect I'm having them again.
Talked to my doctor about this, but unless I'm hooked up to an EEG, there's not much I can do to find out other than asking someone to be with me. My daughter offered her bedroom, (sleeping near her), for a little while so she can let me know. I might take her up on it. I think I'd go for the floor and not a cot though. Might be safer. ;)
Would be nice to find a tape recorder that would run for 8 hours.
Re: Seizures while sleeping? How can I tell if Im having them?
Submitted by dimpolina08 on Wed, 2008-08-27 - 23:20
dimpolina08
Hi! I have been epiletic for 32 yrs. now, but they were only the pedimal seizures. Except for about a year now started having gran-mal seizures. I can tell you that when I do have seizues at night the next day I have this weird feeling. the feeling very similar to the one I get while I have a gran-mal, and a pedimal. Except this one is like far away. I get them so often that sometimes I'm afraid to sleep in my own room by myself. You see, I'm not as lucky as you because I'm single, and I live with my parents. I sometimes feel like a coward because I want to be able to sleep by myself but many times I wake up during the night and I feel like someone is suffocating me. So I wake up trying to bring air to my lungs, and I wind up yelling in the night. I thank God for the support my family members give me, especially my parents. I don't know how you feel when you wake-up in the morning after you had a seizure, or seizures during the night. I just hope the info. about what my feelings are the next day I had them throughout the night with give you some clue to how you might feel when you might have had them. Take care, and God Bless.
dimpolina08
Hi! I have been epiletic for 32 yrs. now, but they were only the pedimal seizures. Except for about a year now started having gran-mal seizures. I can tell you that when I do have seizues at night the next day I have this weird feeling. the feeling very similar to the one I get while I have a gran-mal, and a pedimal. Except this one is like far away. I get them so often that sometimes I'm afraid to sleep in my own room by myself. You see, I'm not as lucky as you because I'm single, and I live with my parents. I sometimes feel like a coward because I want to be able to sleep by myself but many times I wake up during the night and I feel like someone is suffocating me. So I wake up trying to bring air to my lungs, and I wind up yelling in the night. I thank God for the support my family members give me, especially my parents. I don't know how you feel when you wake-up in the morning after you had a seizure, or seizures during the night. I just hope the info. about what my feelings are the next day I had them throughout the night with give you some clue to how you might feel when you might have had them. Take care, and God Bless.