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Seizures Heart arrhythmia
Thu, 02/01/2007 - 14:16Comments
Re: Seizures Heart arrhythmia
Submitted by mahoney20022003 on Mon, 2009-08-24 - 10:52
Has anyone had a seizure while running? I sure did and it was a Grand Mal. All tests normal so docs are assuming that a heart arrhythmia caused the seizure. I'm very frusterated since they said no running. Who knows how long it will be before the insurance paperwork goes through in order to see a Cardiologist.
So I keep wondering, what caused what? Either the arrhythmia caused the seizure or the seizure caused the arrhythmia? Do I have a seizure problem or a heart problem?
Has anyone had a seizure while running? I sure did and it was a Grand Mal. All tests normal so docs are assuming that a heart arrhythmia caused the seizure. I'm very frusterated since they said no running. Who knows how long it will be before the insurance paperwork goes through in order to see a Cardiologist.
So I keep wondering, what caused what? Either the arrhythmia caused the seizure or the seizure caused the arrhythmia? Do I have a seizure problem or a heart problem?
Re: Seizures Heart arrhythmia
Submitted by fraslas on Tue, 2011-04-12 - 16:02
i am epileptic and have shown positive for epilepsy on an EEG. i have been training for a marathon and my heart rate was registering weird, so i went to the doc and they ran an EKG which showed an arrhythmia tachycardia. it seems as though there may be a correlation between the two. studies show that an arrhythmia can be caused by damage to the heart, and i speculate that seizures could cause damage to the heart that could result in an arrhythmia.