@kristinalynn
I'm sorry to hear your brother has seizures. Are all his seizures nocturnal or do they happen during waking hours too?
Can you describe why he was taken to the hospital? Did it last longer/different in some way, more severe than usual? A seizure condition known as status epilepticus where tonic clonic seizures don't stop on there own is an emergency and requires immediate medical intervention. Although this type of seizure is rare, I have a history of them including being put in induced comas to stop the seizure activity. It's not usually necessary to take a seizure patient to the hospital, they usually recover just fine. A seizure patient may appear to be suffering but experiencing pain during a seizure is extremely rare, if it happens at all. After the seizure your body may ache from the muscle contractions and bitting of the tongue and or cheeks or other injuries that may have happened. It's important not to restrain a person having a seizure, but to protect them from danger. Now days they claim nothing should be put into the mouth to protect the tongue and cheeks from damage. Back in the day, they used to put several tongue depressors together and wrap them and cloth tape and tape them to a seizure patients bed in the hospital. Later came plastic seizure sticks. I suspect the reason they now say not to put anything in the mouth is because people may put in something that could be bit off causing a choking hazzard or perhaps they might use a eating utensil that someone may force in the mouth damaging teeth. When I had my first seizure, my dad put his finger in my mouth. It prevented me from biting my tongue however that was the first and last time he ever tried that. He had a nice scar to remember that occasion.
Since he has nocturnal seizures, I am assuming he's having tonic clinic seizures. Does your brother have auras (focal aware seizures) or other types of seizures? Do you know his diagnosis? Do his meds help control his seizures or are his seizures intractable (uncontrolled.)
Take care,
Jake