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My 1st ever seizure last month, in airport waiting area. Any comments?
Epilepsy & Seizures | Last Active: Aug 16 7:04am | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
@musicbart
I'm glad to hear you didn't bite your tongue.
Yes going without sleep could have definitely been the what lowered your seizure threshold which may have led to the seizure. Sleep deprivation considered to be the number one trigger of seizures.
Quality and adequate sleep is very important in seizure patients.
Although lack of sleep, doesn't actually cause a seizure it does lower the brains seizure threshold making a seizure more likely to happen. Were you having less or poor quality sleep days prior to your seizure?
Have you ever had any type of head injury or been in an accident where you may have hit your head.
I have had my entire posts disappear, but never half of one. I've never heard of that happening from any member.
If I'm planning on writing a post that may be a little long or things that I don't want to forget, I type them out in notes and then copy and paste them back into connect.
I'd also like to mention that since you did in fact have what sounds like a tonic clonic seizure according to your symptoms that some precautions should be taken.
Don't take baths. Showers are much safer.
I don't have a dishwasher but I don't use stoppers in the sink when I wash dishes.
I wouldn't fill the bathroom basin with water either.
Swimming, climbing, driving should probably be avoided.
If cooking best to use the back burners.
I hope you let us know how your EEG and neurology appointment go.
Take care,
Jake
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@jakedduck1
Jake, as a light sleeper, I've been having poor sleep for many months. I've recently been thinking that I'd like to know what my cortisol level(s) is/are. I read that some problem with cortisol can cause poor sleep. Also, I don't get out into the light/sunlight outside very soon after rising. I know this isn't good but I was given a light box which even though I thought should be used in Winter can really be used year-round. I think my internal circadian clock's in need of being "fixed" or reset. And I have a physical problem with my sleeping arrangements: I feel I need a wider bed since, due to a complication in my living quarters, I've been sleeping on a narrow, 37 or 39 inch wide bed, a student type bed I call it. I face a certain project in altering my living quarters and in procuring a wider, non-firm bed.
I only have a spacious shower stall but no tub.
While I have a dishwasher, I only use it ~ once a year to keep the seals in some kind of shape. I hand wash everything and never use a plug in the drain. [I only very briefly stop up the bathroom sink to use a plunger in it to get out hair, etc., etc.]
While I'm no longer swimming and never really climbed, I do still drive and realize that perhaps one could be stricken with a seizure while driving. I've no one else to drive but I only drive once or maybe twice a week.
I think in another message you left here you wondered if I'd hit my head any time. I used to be an avid bicyclist: I'd go everywhere on one or the other of my 2 bicycles. But I've been hit by bad drivers in two different years, in 1984 and in 2008. I always wore my bicycle helmet whenever I went riding. The 1984 collision wasn't as awful as the 2008 one but I recall that in the '84 accident, I was stunned when thrown from my bicycle and might have been dazed or "mildly out" for a second or two. In the 2008 accident, I was very badly injured but may not have or probably didn't hit my head. Due to horrendous injuries to my left knee, I was taken to the hospital while conscious. Physical therapy and joining the Y to swim greatly helped my left knee: I needed no knee surgery and have, to this day, no physical pain from using stairs nor from walking long distances.
I'll certainly tell you what next week's EEG determines once I get the report from - I suppose - a neurologist.