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First seizure at age 32. Any suggestions?

Sun, 10/02/2016 - 10:03
I'm a 32 year old male and I had my first seizure about 3 months ago. Leading up to it, I only had 5 hours of sleep the night before, worked a 12 hour shift and had two energy drinks(Java monsters) during my shift as well as two, two days prior and I rarely ever drink them. On top of that, I stayed up for about 20 hours(partially due to the energy drinks I'm sure). I have no prior seizure history but I did have a TBI back in 2007. The neurologist put me on dilantin(substitute version) and since being on it I have constant neck/back/muscle pain, always tired, occasional nausea. I've had neck and back pain before but it's definitely more pronounced after being on the medication. After my TBI in 2007, they put me on dilation for precautionary measures. A year later I requested to be taken off because of being tired all the time so they did and I never had a seizure. At this point I'm leaning more towards the energy drinks and fatigue being a large reason that it happened(especially after researching energy drinks and seizures (page after page after page) and no more seizure activity when they abstained from drinking them. Any info would be much appreciated, thank you in advance.

Comments

to start with Anybody at any

Submitted by just_joe on Sun, 2016-10-02 - 11:56
to start with Anybody at any age can get epilepsy. Now if your TBI was a head injury was a concussion which knocked you out for even a second or two it could have caused a hemorrhage and if it wasn't looked at and taken care of right then then any blood on the brain might have caused scar tissue. Such scar tissue can cause epilepsy. I had a fall which knocked me out for a few seconds when I was 6-7 In that fall I cut the inside of my jaw and my tongue and they needed 32 stiches. The doctors were more worried about my mouth then the big bump on my head. So in your next visit you need to tell your neurologist about your RBI. Also call them and discuss your issue with your Dilantin. You might want to look at the side effects of all your medications. Some of them can cause seizures in seizure prone people

Regarding my TBI, I fell from

Submitted by SantanaJ83 on Sun, 2016-10-02 - 12:22
Regarding my TBI, I fell from about 10-12 ft and landed headfirst on blacktop and as soon as I hit the blacktop I was in a coma. If I weren't drunk(ba .28) I would have died. 2 life threatening blood clots. They life lioned me to Hershey med and got it all taken care of shortly after it happened. The neurologist knows about all of that and the fact that I was on dilantin directly after that incident and that I requested to be taken off and it was confirmed. I'm not seizure prone being that this was the first seizure I've ever had in my life, none before, none after. I missed a few doses from time to time and from researching missed doses, most people that have epilepsy ended up having a small seizure whereas i didn't. Dilantin is the only medication that I'm taking(wasn't taking anything else prior to this one time episode) I have a follow-up with the neurologist about midway through this month and I'll discuss these thing with him.

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