Hello heal33, If a trigger for you is sleep I cannot recommend a CPAP enough. A sleep study should be one of the 1st tests a neurologist runs after an epilepsy diagnosis. I am not a doctor, to be clear, however just a bit of research of sleep apnea should illicit an "oh crap" from any neurologist that hasn't ran the test. Here is a snippet from Mayo about sleep apnea "sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts." Really all you have to ask yourself is how much REM sleep do you get while your breathing starts and stops. Logic tells me very little. Then tie REM sleep back to epilepsy especially if a trigger is sleep.

I tried posting the link about sleep apnea from the Mayo site but couldn't. You can do a search on sleep apnea for more detailed info. If you need help linking the two conditions let me know.