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Sleep and seizures

Thu, 03/27/2014 - 04:23

How can someone ensure either by change in medication or the dosage of medication that seizures will not happen even if you are deprived of sleep for around 8 days or have your sleep pattern changong almost every day?

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there is none. Do car makers

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2014-03-27 - 10:08
there is none. Do car makers gaurantee that you will not have an accident or get hit by a car? Most of my life I have slept 5-6 hours a night. Stress is another trigger and my jobs were stressful. That stress I left at the door when leaving work and picked it up the next morning. There is no way to say you will not have seizures. If your seizures have been reduced in the number of seizures and the intensity if thise seizures some doctors would say your seizures are controled. I have been working at being seizure free for 50+ years. I can say that I have had no convulsive seizures since 1969-70 and was seizure free for 3+ years the number of seizures I have now is low and the seizures now last seconds. neurologists have been working on getting their patients seizure free but there may and will be people who will not be seizure free.

No one can guarantee seizure

Submitted by mereloaded on Thu, 2014-03-27 - 21:54
No one can guarantee seizure freedom, because epilepsy has no cure. Managing triggers is part of the treatment plan, so having little sleep and inconsistent sleeping hours may aggravate the condition, no matter what medication you take.

Your brain needs sleep. All

Submitted by Eternal_Howl on Tue, 2014-04-01 - 22:13
Your brain needs sleep. All brains need sleep, but it becomes particularly noticeable for those with epilepsy who become sleep deprived. Medication or not, if you don't get your rest, your brain will tell you in one way or another. I am seizure-free, but I still have epilepsy. I require my sleep and my medication in order to maintain my homeostasis. or my post-diagnostic "normal". Changing medications is often a routine until you find the one most effective. Some brains will respond well and others not quite. This is what I call individualized medicine. There might be dozens of drugs out there now, but they won't all, and they don't all work. It's a chemistry experiment in your brain to figure out which one works the best for you. It's horrible, but it's the truth. Some people don't respond to drugs and need other treatments, like diet modification, surgery. Stress and anxiety is a big thing for people with epilepsy and this can also be a problem for sleep. If your mind won't switch off, maybe you can drown it out with something. I don't normally recommend TV etc at bedtime, but I've been experiencing sleep issues with noisy neighbors and I need my sleep, so I've been going to sleep with my ear buds (they fall out) to a soft spoken documentary. Nothing else for me works, because the noise is outside (not inside).

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