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Insomnia and anxiety with seizures

Mon, 08/06/2007 - 13:34
Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults
I have complex partial & simple partial seizures and when I have seizures I have this extreme anxiety and insomina. Now I only experience this when I have the complex partial seizures. I start to feel this anxiousness as the sun sets and I feel it all night until the sun rises. I feel that I have to keep the TV on because I don't want to be in the quiet dark. I'll put my TV on sleep timer, but as soon as it shuts off I wake up and have to turn it back on. When I do fall asleep it's maybe for an hour at the most but usually I doze for about 15-20 minutes at a time throughout the night. I usually have a seizure during the night or first thing in the morning. I was wondering if anyone else experiences anything like this and if so how do you deal with the loss of sleep and the anxiety? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Jodi

Comments

Anyone been to the Houston eye center?

Submitted by katrina kat on Sun, 2008-10-05 - 14:51

Has anyone been to the Houston eye center or know of a good ophthalmologists in the area or the east valley??

Thanks!!

 

Has anyone been to the Houston eye center or know of a good ophthalmologists in the area or the east valley??

Thanks!!

 

Re: Anyone been to the Houston eye center?

Submitted by petrikliyod on Mon, 2008-10-20 - 14:10
I had a check up at Houston Eye Center (Houston Lasik Surgery ) a little while ago. They were really great and the doctor didn't sell me glasses I apparently didn't need (some other doc sold me bifocals when I was 30!) and I never used.

Anyway, I would recommend them. I was in and out quick and had a good exam.

Re: Anyone been to the Houston eye center?

Submitted by kathryn_5 on Sat, 2009-03-07 - 09:08

I have been on http://www.rxonlinetoday.com/rozerem/rozerem.html  for several years now as a sleep aid and it seems to help. I still have bouts of imsomnia every two to three weeks, but on the other hand, I don't need to take the pills every night -- if I'm really tired, I will fall asleep pretty fast. I am always in bed by 9 or 9:30 because I have to get up early work

 

I have been on http://www.rxonlinetoday.com/rozerem/rozerem.html  for several years now as a sleep aid and it seems to help. I still have bouts of imsomnia every two to three weeks, but on the other hand, I don't need to take the pills every night -- if I'm really tired, I will fall asleep pretty fast. I am always in bed by 9 or 9:30 because I have to get up early work

 

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