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Let's Play Doctor, Shall We?
Fri, 11/02/2012 - 02:07Comments
Re: Let's Play Doctor, Shall We?
Submitted by Nerak95 on Sun, 2012-11-04 - 22:33
Hard to say if this is epilepsy. These episodes could be metabolic in nature (low blood pressure, hypoglycemic) or even related to prescription or OTC medications. Sometimes medications or even supplements can lower the seizure threshold. Glad you're heading to a neuro center where diagnostic testing can help determine why you're having these episodes.
Karen
Hard to say if this is epilepsy. These episodes could be metabolic in nature (low blood pressure, hypoglycemic) or even related to prescription or OTC medications. Sometimes medications or even supplements can lower the seizure threshold. Glad you're heading to a neuro center where diagnostic testing can help determine why you're having these episodes.
Karen
Re: Let's Play Doctor, Shall We?
Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Fri, 2012-11-02 - 04:56
Hi Ckrusec, One of my problems from epilepsy includes seemingly cyclical clusters of seizures, with a cycle about the length of the lunar cycle, but definitely not in sync with the moon. As my biological day appears to be closer to 25 hours long than 24, if I were wealthy, I would totally isolate myself from the daily cycle of the environment, and see if such isolation changed the cycle of clusters of seizures. In regards to other irregular sleeping habits, seizures from epilepsy control my sleep much more than sleep influences my seizures. If you wish to play academic doctor for the subject of "Sleep Deprivation Seizures", one source involving epilepsy is "Sleep Deprivation and Epilepsy" by Beth A. Malow (Epilepsy Curr. 2004 September; 4(5): 193–195): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1176369/ Another source, with differentials from epilepsy, is "Imitators of Epilepsy" by Dr. Peter Kaplan & Dr. Robert Fisher (2005): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/?term=sleep%20deprivation%20AND%20imitepil%5Bbook%5D (for easier instance: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7419/ ) http://books.google.com/books?id=zg5T1CsIj7UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=imitators+of+epilepsy&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jXWTUKTcFcirigLE6oGICQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sleep%20deprivation&f=false (Are there a few, to many, or any, "sleep starts" ("sleep jumps") cases of narcolepsy too???). The notion of anything being related as a "facilitator of epileptic seizures" is loaded with confusions of terminologies: "The 1989 ILAE classification[2] defines precipitating seizures and precipitating factors as follows: “Precipitated seizures are those in which environmental or internal factors consistently precede the attacks and are differentiated from spontaneous epileptic attacks in which precipitating factors cannot be identified. Certain nonspecific factors (e.g., sleeplessness, alcohol or drug withdrawal, or hyperventilation) are common precipitators and are not specific modes of seizure precipitation." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2596/ (and esp. the author's note (b), below what's quoted). A functioning neurological definition of the word "stress" is very much more worse, and lacking, than one for the elusive concept of "consciousness". Tadzio