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Sleep paralysis / epilepsy?
Mon, 05/14/2018 - 00:19Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
I’m 21 years old, when I was 17 I started experiencing a type of shaking in my sleep. It’s very hard to explain exactly how I feel when it happens. The episodes wake me up from sleep, but I can not move. My entire body starts shaking, and feels like it’s almost vibrating, and especially feels like my brain is internally vibrating. I have to really try, but i can eventually get my eyes open. It’s difficult to keep them open but I’m aware of my surroundings although it’s seems slightly blurred, and I’ll think that the shadows I see are something scary. I can’t get any sound out and I try as hard as I can to move or sit up to try and fully “wake up” or snap out of the episode. It’s terrifying when it happens becuse I’m conscious and I can feel my body seizing. I thought it could be a form of sleep paralysis, but the body shaking makes me think otherwise.
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It's also worth asking about
Submitted by Amy Jo on Mon, 2018-05-14 - 16:07
It's also worth asking about doing a sleep study as some sleep disorders can be mistaken for epilepsy.
Yes it could be epilepsy. In
Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2018-05-14 - 11:00
Yes it could be epilepsy. In a lot of seizures the person having them do not lose consciousness. In mine I see, hear and understand everything going on around me. As for your trying to do things. When in a seizure you have no control of your body. Meaning to do something does not help. I was being written up for daydreaming in class. The teachers would ask me a question and my answer came out after they had gone to the next student. I answered the question in my seizure. The answer came out after the seizure was over.Discuss this with your primary doctor and get a referral to a neurologist. If they think it is epilepsy they can prescribe medications that can control your seizures