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Nocturnal Seizures?

Sat, 09/29/2007 - 20:46
So for the past week, maybe two, I've awakened during the night to find myself soaked in sweat, burning hot (no fever), and nauseated beyond belief. I find it hard to move, and the room feels as though it is rocking back and forth. The other night I managed to pull myself out of bed only to find it near impossible to walk, I ended up dry heaving, and falling asleep confused on the bathroom floor. I've noticed a slight increase in my myoclonic seizure activity, but noly slight, until last night when I had several upon awakening. (I missed three days of seizure meds due to a pharmacy not HAVING mine in stock...no I wasn't late in asking for the refill, they just plain didn't have it available...) It should be noted that the waking up in a sweat occured befor missing any meidcation, and the prior myoclonic activity afterwards. I'm restarting the medication scheudle tonight so we'll see. My question is, is this typical of a nocturnal seizure? I have had ONE for sure that I know of, because I'm an adult, and I woke up to find I had wet the bed, but was to damn foggy and confused to do anything about it for a solid fifteen minutes or so. A second suspected one left me with a fat lip, bloody nose, and scratches on my face. Despite the obvious beating I'd taken, I didn't wake up till the blood had dried. I have PTSD, and the doctors aren't sure yet if this is possible seizure activity, or a reoccurence of night terror activity. I had awful night terrors for years that went unnoticed and undiagnosed because I don't shout, I tend to moan, and claw at myself and the walls. (I actually wore gloves to bed for a period of time to avoid clawing my face up.) I realize that this group might not know much about sleep terrors, but you might possibly offer insight into the possibility of nocturnal epileptic activity. KEY FACTS: Diagnoses: Diagnosed as having juvenile myoclonic epilepsy...but all of my seizure activity begins in the left front temporal lobe before becoming more generalized...these leads me to believe that my first diagnoses was innacurate...I maen I see things getting bigger and smaller, and while I might have a severe decrease in consciousness, often (more often than not) I do NOT lose consciousness during my "episodes" Age: 21 Medications: 2000mg Keppra daily (seperated into two doses) Xanax as Needed 1mg of Klonopin recentely used for three weeks then stopped approximately four days ago (it was used as a sleeping medication but did NOT help me to sleep) Thsanks bunches in advance for any input. I recently started college classes again, and working, so I have had a bit more stress in my life, and am worried that the big E is rearing its ugly head again making it difficult for me to get what i want done!

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Re: Nocturnal Seizures?

Submitted by banffgirl on Tue, 2007-10-09 - 07:48
i would call your neuro. i have nocturna t/cs where as i wake up tp a super bad headache or migraine, and confused feeling with my hubby saying sylvia can you hear me? which he has been saying for a while aready before i come out of the postictal stage. and then ofcourse my body aches and ye i am quite often naseated and pasted that point if it was bad. i take the same amount of keppra as you plus 400mg zonegrane 2x day and tranxene sd at bedtime & diazapam at bedtime which has gretly reduced my number of nocturnal t/cs. hope this helps. hugs, banffgirl

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