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New thing happening....need help???
Mon, 09/11/2006 - 11:26Topic: Parents & Caregivers
HI!!
I have posted on this site with great responses so I hope that this time I can get some good help. This last week Emily Klair has been doing something she has never done with a seizure before..could it be a new type of seizure or is she coming out of it and is just scared??? She will have her normal seizure ( that is weird normal and seizure in the same sentencelol) then when she is asleep she will scream out like she is in pain, and she will toss and turn her body every which way...then it is like she is asleep again and about 2 seconds later it starts all over again. I did not know if with some seizures people can scream and cry or not??? It is new and has happened about 4x's thisweek and it always seems to happen after a seizure and after she has fallen asleep. I would love to hear from amyone who has any info to give me.
Emily Klair's mom...Kari
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Re: New thing happening....need help???
Submitted by FIONA GRANT on Mon, 2006-09-11 - 12:41
Hi , Steven sometimes cries out when he is having a seizure, it is a terrible scream and there is nothing i can do to stop him.He never remembers this the next morning.BTW It is always during the night that this happens.
Fiona
Re: New thing happening....need help???
Submitted by stefie on Mon, 2006-09-11 - 13:22
Is she having grand mal (tonic clonic) seizures?
There is often a scream prior to the actual convulsions that is considered to be air rapidly being pressed from the chest and diaphragm at the onset of this particular seizure type.
For complex partial seizures I used to make a terrible whining noise (high pitched and sometimes pretty loud) like a cry for help because I couldn't talk during my sz. Frequently this would be at night, also frequently hitting the wall or headboard too.
Hope this helps. She's probably trying to tell you she needs you but can't get the words out (for cp's)
stef
Re: New thing happening....need help???
Submitted by kilroyjones on Mon, 2006-09-11 - 12:08
hi kari, i have temporal lobe/complex partial seizures. when i was on depekote i would often have seizures in my sleep where i would sit up and scream. (it freaked my mom out, too)