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Seizures & The Effects of Season Change & Daylight Savings Time
Wed, 09/06/2006 - 08:27Topic: Parents & Caregivers
My son was diagnosed two years ago with epilepsy. He is now 8 years old. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced the seizures to be brought on by change of season or with daylight savings time. My son has had two grand mal seizures of which the first one occured in October of 2004, with that, he was placed on meds and sure enough in October 2005 another grand mal. I am very worried as October is rapidly approaching us. Has anyone else out there experienced this? I certainly do not feel that it is coincidental.
Hope to hear from you!
Thanks and make it a great one!
Re: Seizures & The Effects of Season Change & Daylight Savings T
Submitted by My3Kids on Thu, 2006-09-07 - 14:58
My son is 14 and EVERY October brings break through seizures for us! Like Erin mentions, it is a combination of things for him, change in sleep habits, 'busier days' at school and more sensory input, change in weather (i personally think it's barometric pressure) etc. My son requires and takes considerable initiative in maintaining a consistent routine. Although he had a different routine for summer bed time than during the school year, whatever he chooses, he's consistent with it and does not like to stray from it. I NEVER have to drag him off to bed (unlike my two party girls). He even eats his meals almost exactly the same time every day. His high school lunch was at 10:30am this year (?)- and that really threw my son off, so now they moved it to 11:30. My advice to you is to just keep things as 'calm' and low key as possible. Have him get to bed earlier, or even take a rest after school. My son just had a couple of weeks of break-through seizures and then we discovered he also had gained 7 pounds this summer! So between that, back to school (started high school) and weather changes - his brain got a little 'hot wired'! Now that we've increased his trileptal, he's feeling drowsy from that so hopefully within a week or so he will be back to 'normal'. At least you know to be 'on guard' - that takes some time and 'practice' to start to be able to 'predict' when a seizure may be imminent!