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Do seizures cause pain?

Thu, 06/08/2006 - 17:29
Hi I am the mother of a 5 1/2 year old who is progressively getting worse. His name is Danny. He has many types of seizures. He has at least 10 notable seizures a day and probably many more. he often requires interventions such as oxygen, suctioning, extra clonopin or diastat. he is on several medications clonopin, keppra, felbatol, phenobarb, and vigabitrin and several others for gi issues. Danny has tried all the other meds to no avail. We recently were told that there are only options left are to do a surgery that splits the 2 hemispheres or to do nothing. We feel this child is in pain and requires more sedation to be comfortable. The neurologist says that seizures are not painful. Danny is currently functioning at a 0-3 month level. He did progress when he was a baby. He did sit, stand and smile all of that is now gone. I am wondering do seizures cause pain? I think they do.

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I've had three grand Mal sexz

Submitted by Ray.ochoa on Fri, 2019-02-08 - 17:04
I've had three grand Mal sexz. In the last 10 months, the first on I was sleeping and only felt pain upon waking up from my post dictal state(that also could be from the police, they thought I was overdosing, so they handcuffed me ). The second was a breakthrough sez. In the middle of the day and I've never felt more pain. In my whole lifr it started a a migraine then just didn't stop getting worse till I was screaming in the floor. The paramedics pumped me with drugs and the pain was reduced to a 3 day long headache. The third I felt nothing beforehand but once I came to I vomited on a paramedic and the migraine hit strong. Also side note, I was on keppra and it attacked my mental health so badly that I was contplating suicide on the daily. Might not happen to everyone but if you have had a history of mental  it may bring up some things from your past  

Re: Do seizures cause pain?

Submitted by Masterjen on Wed, 2010-09-08 - 00:38
If I have had night-time seizures (they don't always wake me up) I know because I usually wake up the next morning with a whopping headache, even after what should technically be plenty of sleep Also, depending on how intense the "tensing" or tonic phase was, sometimes certain muscles feel on the verge of cramping up for awhile, and I can be aware of an electrical sensation in my legs (not really painful, but annoying). I also have times where I feel "on the verge" of a seizure (I guess that's the medication taking over?) - again which isn't painful but in addition to being annoying it can make me feel "off" mentally and physically.

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