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New to this site need help please!!

Tue, 08/08/2017 - 14:47
I've been having muscle spasms like jerks in my fingers toes arms thighs it's not uncontrolled but it happens in waves. I never had a seziure before that I know of but I'm scared I'm on my way to with all the stress I'm under... can someone please share advice or experiences if what I'm having is potential seizures... I'm so scared. Age 26 two kids ages 3 and 19 months health anxiety stress and depression pstd too

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A lot of people think about

Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2017-08-08 - 15:22
A lot of people think about certain types of seizures while not knowing about other types. Ever see someone setting around and think they are day dreaming? <<absence seizures and some focal seizures look like that. Other focal aka partial seizures can affect one area only. For me they affect my right hand and it feels weird or numb. I see hear and understand everything going on. Therefore you would know nothing about my seizure. Today they last a couple of seconds.Yes what you posted should like what happen in different seizures.  Myoclonic (MY-o-KLON-ik) seizures are brief, shock-like jerks of a muscle or a group of muscles. "Myo" means muscle and "clonus" (KLOH-nus) means rapidly alternating contraction and relaxation—jerking or twitching—of a muscle. Usually they don't last more than a second or two. There can be just one, but sometimes many will occur within a short time.So do call your doctor and talk about these issues with them. Have them refer you to a neurologist that specializes in epilepsy. If your PTSD was caused by a head injury then do make sure the neurologist knows about, If it was from a head injury then they need to know what happened and might want an MRI.I took a big fall when I was 6-8 yoa and in that fall I hit my head really hard. the docs were more worried about the 4 teeth I knocked out and the 34 stiches they had to put in my mouth. Well in that fall I got a concussion. That concussion bled. That blood cause scar tissue in more then one lobe of my brain. That scar tissue is the cause of my epilepsy.

This is so deep because I

Submitted by Gamerfitmom on Sun, 2017-08-13 - 21:49
This is so deep because I thought day dreaming was normal I'll look into everything you mentioned in I did not know Muscle twitching or jerks were seizure related because it only happen when I'm anxious or having a panic

Buy CoQ10 in any pharmacy.

Submitted by murr88 on Tue, 2017-10-10 - 12:05
Buy CoQ10 in any pharmacy. This thing was recommended to me by Neuro against muscle spasms. It is safe, no prescription needed. Do not buy it high dosage! I had side effects, the feeling like I had bruises (I didn't). The minimum dosage did help me. I think, even half of minimum day dosage will be enough. 

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