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Seizures While You Sleep? by EpilepsyTeam .. Posted Sun 24 Aug 2008 1:49pm variety of seizures that can be caused by many factors. One area of concern is seizure activity during sleep. CARL BAZIL, MD, PhD: Sleep-related epilepsy would be those seizures... the seizures almost or exclusively occur during the transition between sleep and wakefulness. ANNOUNCER: The relationship between sleep and seizure activity is not well understood Read on »

Seizures And Sleep Apnea, Revisited by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 28 Jul 2010 6:22am and a young woman with seizures just died in her sleep. It was a very emotional and distressing situation for everyone involved, especially when I had to tell the family about what... on to describe the typical genetic causes for this condition, without exploring the upper airway issue at all. If you Google sleep apnea and seizures, you'll see tons of papers Read on »

Seizures, Brain Density, and Sleep Apnea by Dr. Steven P. Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 21 May 2010 9:28am I've written in the past about how untreated obstructive sleep apnea can lower your seizure thresholds. Here's a study looking at children with seizures, that showed that they had lower white matter brain volume. There have been numerous past studies showing that untreated obstructive sleep apnea leads to reductions in brain volume and density Read on »

Less seizures, but still fighting the seizure monster! by Kelly Patient Expert

Posted Wed 09 Feb 2011 1:12am called Jenelle's teacher to give her a head's up. A few hours later, she called concerned as Jenelle had a drop seizure, and was again sleeping. After a few more seizures, I decided to get Jenelle from school, because my time was better spent watching her sleep at home, instead of ending up in the ER should the seizures get worse. Jenelle had a few Read on »

Seizure inducing aspartame added to anti-seizure drugs by Stephen Tvedten Patient Expert

Posted Sat 04 Dec 2010 8:36am of Maui has completed a seven year study on Epilepsy and Seizures, finding that epilepsy is at an all time high in Hawaii and the western states and Pacific Ocean Territories... Seizure inducing aspartame added to anti-seizure drugs http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2008/07/17/seizure_inducing_aspartame_added_to_antiseizure_drugs.htm Types Read on »

SeizureTracker – Great Tool For Tracking and Recording Seizures by Chris H. Posted Tue 11 May 2010 7:04pm phone and soon users will have the capability of recording rescue medication usage and daily notes through the mobile site. Seizure Tracker also allows you to share epilepsy... This week I started using an online program called SeizureTracker . Over the past few months, Addi and Cassi have been having Read on »

Seizures…progression… by Carrie Ostrea Posted Tue 23 Nov 2010 2:18am into a deeper sleep, her nurse and I noticed the seizures on the screen. The EEG tech also confirmed they were seizures (even though she was not supposed to). They were happening every... during her sleep was actually seizure activity. Every time Hannah twitched in her sleep, a seizure was noticed on the EEG (see pic on the left side – that is a seizure). What Read on »

Seizure Activity ( Dog) by heru m. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 19 Dec 2010 2:17pm will only help if the offending ingredient (like beef, chicken, food coloring, etc.) is not found in the new food. It isn’t unusual at all for primary epilepsy (seizures... that people sometimes mistake for seizures. These are heart disease causing fainting, sleep disorders (narcolepsy), peripheral vestibular syndrome, inapparent sources of pain leading Read on »

All About My Seizures by patientanonymous Patient Expert

Posted Mon 27 Nov 2006 12:00am Disorder but with some trigger and rapidly misfiring neurons, had this awakened my sleeping seizures? Also, with the beginning of Anticonvulsant treatment, my seizures were... A lot of the time when people think about seizures, they get this mental image of someone dropping to the floor and flailing around like a fish out of water. I blame Read on »

My worst seizure by Jane .. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:32pm in my mind “it’ll all be over soon”. This was without a doubt my worst ‘major’ seizure. Technically it was no different from any normal ‘major’ seizure apart from one vital detail: I was awake during this seizure, I didn’t lose consciousness as I would normally have done. Before this seizure when people asked me what it felt like to have a seizure, I Read on »