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Seizures when asleep?
Thu, 10/04/2007 - 01:32I always get weird smells that no one I'm around seem to smell. But a few times, I've woken up and smelled the most horrible smell I've ever smelled in my entire life each time. It's so bad I want to throw up. I haven't asked my neurologist about this because I felt kind of stupid. Has anyone else experienced this, is it even possible? I have simple partial seizures, complex partial, secondary generalized.
1200 trileptal
200 topamax
300 lamictal (weaning off)
Thanks
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Re: Seizures when asleep?
Submitted by lisaltstheresa on Fri, 2007-10-05 - 11:25
check this site out for at night time when sleeping
http://www.sleep-safe.co.uk/id90.htm
Lisa
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/EpilepsyApproach1/
Re: Seizures when asleep?
Submitted by txrhb1 on Thu, 2007-10-04 - 02:44
From the time she was 9, until she wass 23, my daughter had a horrible smell prior to every tonic-clonic seizure she ever had. She could never describe it, but it was the only warning she got, and her doc said it was very common. Now, he has changed her meds and she no longer gets the smell, but she has also gone from several sezures a month to only 1 seizure in 8 months. So please, tell your doctor about it. Good luck. ((( hugs ))), Barbie - "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can fly only by embracing each other." -lucian de crescenzo