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Exercise, Overheating and Seizures
Thu, 04/13/2006 - 20:23Topic: Parents & Caregivers
Has anyone experienced they or their child having seizure activity increase while engaged in sports or physical activity or while being very hot from exercise? My 9 year old daughter has mostly complex partial seizures and has had about six including her one and only tonic clonic seizure while playing basketball. Her doctor says physical activity does not cause seizures but she has had so many when plyaing basketball that I find it difficult to believe it is just coincidence? Is harldy sweats and becomes overheated easily. Thanks for any help or insights you can give.
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Re: Exercise, Overheating and Seizures
Submitted by Robin D on Sat, 2006-04-29 - 11:54
This may be interesting for you to hear. I had my first seizure when I was 16 but all through my childhood I had problems whenever I got overheated or did a lot of physical things. I would feel sick, but of course did not have a temperature. The responses I got from most adults was that I was lazy. They didn't say that but that was the inuendo. Then when I finally had a seizure it started to make a little sense. Now I knew what that sick feeling was related to because I felt that way before I had seizures. I have catamenial epilepsy, with seizures around my menses. But I also am affected when I have too low or too high sugar, and other things that trigger hormones in my body. I don't know if there are any studies done to correlate other hormone activity but I know from experience that it is associated with seizures for me, especially now that I am going into premenopause & get hot flashes. I almost instantly have a seizure with hot flashes.
Hope this helps.
Re: Re: Exercise, Overheating and Seizures
Submitted by spiz on Sun, 2006-04-30 - 05:04
boyschildmom, I am on Depakote and Tegretol XR. I used to be on regular Tegretol and had problems with double - triple vision. They switched me to the XR and the problems stopped. But my Neuro did advise me when I was put on Depakote to have eye exams every six months as the Depakote could affect the eyes. At first my eyesight did get worse, maybe the first 3 - 4 years on the medicine. After that, I would say it has slowed down to a normal crawl. Hope this helps. -Spiz