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adrenaline, or some similar chemical, ending a seizure?
Wed, 10/20/2010 - 09:35Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth
i am quite lucky in the sense that the epilepsy i suffer from is very weak, i could have a seizure during a conversation and those talking to me would not notice. Whilst on drugs my seizures stopped and after several months the doctor decided to take me off medication. Unfortunately, after a couple of weeks the seizures started again.
Now i personally take part in a great deal of windsurfing: i found that when i have recently had a seizure and it's been bad enough for me to full in the cold water has brought me round and ended the seizure. This has happened every time: i can only conclude that the shock is responsible for this and wondered if anyone knew of adrenaline or some similar chemical ending a seizure like this?
Re: adrenaline, or some similar chemical, ending a seizure?
Submitted by Texas_med on Wed, 2010-10-20 - 13:56
My name is Shawn. I am a nurse as well as an EMT here in East Texas. I have had seizures ever since I was six months old. Believe it or not, the adrenaline is largely advised against being used for anyone who is having a seizure. what it does is speed up the heart and make it have stronger contractions. It also speeds up the electrical activity in the brain which has a possibility of making you go into a full loss of consciousness. I can tell you since I have complex-partial seizures, if you are out there wind-surfing at the time and fall in the water, it can wind up being a catastophic ending. I had a seizure while I was at the pool with three friends about six years ago. I fell into the water, and the friends had to pull me up from the bottom of the pool and perform CPR on me to bring me back to life. I would see what your neurologist or doctor says before trying anything like that. Believe it or not, the medications that are used in the Emergency room on epilepsy to bring people out are also widely used as sedatives like Ativan and Valium. They slow everything down and help to slow the electrical activity in the brain back down to normal.
The main thing I would do before starting anything though is consult your primary care physician or neurologist. I wish you the best of luck.
My name is Shawn. I am a nurse as well as an EMT here in East Texas. I have had seizures ever since I was six months old. Believe it or not, the adrenaline is largely advised against being used for anyone who is having a seizure. what it does is speed up the heart and make it have stronger contractions. It also speeds up the electrical activity in the brain which has a possibility of making you go into a full loss of consciousness. I can tell you since I have complex-partial seizures, if you are out there wind-surfing at the time and fall in the water, it can wind up being a catastophic ending. I had a seizure while I was at the pool with three friends about six years ago. I fell into the water, and the friends had to pull me up from the bottom of the pool and perform CPR on me to bring me back to life. I would see what your neurologist or doctor says before trying anything like that. Believe it or not, the medications that are used in the Emergency room on epilepsy to bring people out are also widely used as sedatives like Ativan and Valium. They slow everything down and help to slow the electrical activity in the brain back down to normal.
The main thing I would do before starting anything though is consult your primary care physician or neurologist. I wish you the best of luck.