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Involuntary shudders
Tue, 08/15/2006 - 13:42Topic: Women With Epilepsy
Hi. Has anyone had to deal with involuntary shudders that shake your whole upper body and make you cry out or moan?
These happen to me about 2 or 3 times a week (sometimes more) and are getting stronger (stronger shudders). Sometimes I get 2 or more in a row. They usually happen when I am tired or relaxed, but not in bed.
dmcamethyst :)
Re: Involuntary shudders
Submitted by califgal930 on Mon, 2006-09-18 - 01:40
Hello, I was browsing and found your comment about the shudders. I have that also but i did not put it together with my seizure activity until recently. It was just something I did and did not know why. For no explained reason I would shudder from my feet to my head. Luckly it does not happen often. I am beginning to see a lot of things in my past behaviors that could be caused by seizure activity. I have had encephalitis as a child, two concussions and a skull fracture over the years and I think it has all caught up to me now. I am waiting to see a seizure specilist in a couple of weeks, so I have not really been diagnosed with anything yet. Just suspected simple partial seizures and a slightly abnormal EEG [slow temporal waves]. My body just shuts down from 10 sec to 5 minutes but I know everything that is going on around me. I wish you well.....