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Anyone Ever Have a Natural Gas Leak cause grand mal seizures?
Tue, 09/02/2008 - 16:21Hi I am new to the forum and wanted to see if anyone discovered a natural gas leak that was causing them to having grand mal seizures. My husband started having seizures a year and a half ago with the first one being while he was asleep. All have been while he was asleep in our home never anywere else. We moved into the house in March of 2007 and he started having seizures in July 2007. He never had them before this point and it does not run in the family. He does have some right frontal lobe brain damage from a bicycle accident that happended in 2000 but he never experienced these until we moved into our house. While he has had some sleep issues from the brain damage he never had seizures as a result of this damage. We discovered this past weekend we had a gas leak in our house from the time it was built. Anyone know if this can cause seizures? I know it may sound crazy but I just wanted to see if anyone had thoughts about this.
Thanks,
Kristy
Re: Ever Have a Natural Gas Leak cause grand mal seizures?
Submitted by Seruzies on Tue, 2009-06-30 - 01:28
I had an aura once that I thought I smelled a gas leak in the house. My aura was so bad to the point that I called the fire department in the middle of the night. The local firemen were good friends of my Father's and when they showed up at the house and found nothing wrong and we realized I was only having an aura, needless to say, they were not real happy with me. The gas leak smell scared me, but I should have waken someone else up before I called the fire department. I'll never let that happen again, I'm waking someone up even if in the middle of the night.