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Epilepsy and Sleep Apnea
Tue, 08/26/2014 - 11:29I have recently been diagnosed with Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. I have had panic attacks for years, not sure if they were actually due to the TLE or not. My question is has anyone heard of a correlation between possible nocturnal seizures (never witnessed) and sleep apnea. The only times I have flet like something may have happened in my sleep is when I have fallen asleep flat on my back and when I haven't been wearing my CPAP.
Epilepsy has nothing to do
Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2014-08-26 - 21:08
Epilepsy has nothing to do with sleep napea. Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. You may have sleep apnea if you snore loudly and you feel tired even after a full night's sleep.