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I’m a licensed clinical
Submitted by Patriotrehab on Mon, 2019-10-21 - 00:01
I’m a licensed clinical social worker and certified rehabilitation counselor as well as a person with epilepsy. I’m also the mother of a healthy 19 year old son. Hot flashes can have a number of different causes, but typically if epilepsy is the cause it’s usually just prior to a seizure, during a seizure or immediately following a seizure. Other potential causes are side effects from medications, hormones, sensitivity to temperature changes, anxiety or specific phobias to name a few. Someone from the Epilepsy Foundation will probably be responding to you during the week with some more information. I would still recommend letting the neurologist know about the hot flashes though because they need to know about all of the symptoms that he experiences. I say this because there are some symptoms that may look like something else but turn out to be a focal onset seizure. For example, one of my seizures was misdiagnosed as carpal tunnel syndrome for 19 years even though I had already been diagnosed with epilepsy because the symptom was first reported to my primary care doctor who didn’t run any tests and jumped to conclusions.