night terror or seizure ? Posted: 05-01-08 18:15pm
Hi, this is my first posting on this
forum. It is in concern for my girlfriend.
She is 26 years old with no past of
seizures. 2 nights ago i came home from
work around 2am. When i was walking to our
bedroom she was in bed yelling "no!no!no!"
and moaning like she was havning a
horrible nightmare. I went to wake her up
and she snapped out of the dream and
started snorring very loudly. After trying
to wake her up for like 3mins she was like
completely out of it. It was like she was
very drunk. She couldnt walk straight and
she was like droopy. I asked her a few
questions and she answered most of them
correctly but a couple she had a hard time
with. I decided to take her to the ER.
When we arrived we realized that she had
bitten hr tongue during the incident. The
doctor said it sounded like night terrors,
but he decided to admit her anyway so they
could test he for seizures,stroke etc..
they did a eeg,ekg,mri, catscan and chest
xray. everything came back normal The
Neurologist said he thinks it was a
sleeping issue, but could have been a
siezure.We got home today from the
hospital today without a straight answer,
she has a follow up with him and they want
to do a sleep study on her, any help from
you guys would be awesome thank you.
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RobinN
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Posted: 05-01-08 23:38pm
I am under the impression that everyone is
allowed one seizure in their life without
concern. I bet it was scary for you. My
daughter had her first seizure two years
ago at the age of 14.
I have learned there really isn't a
"typical" seizure. It certainly sounds
like your GF had a seizure. If she doesn't
have another, I would just use it as a
warning signal that something is amiss in
her system. Her brain was overloaded for
some reason. We work out a lot of our
stress while we sleep. I would forget the
label and find out what is lowering her
threshold.
Sleep studies may or may not answer your
questions. My daughter's EEGs have not
been conclusive as to whether or not there
is seizure activity, and I have come to
learn (of course not from traditional
doctors) that there are areas of the brain
(frontal lobe) that are difficult to
record seizure activity. Also if there is
not a seizure during the EEG it will not
show abnormal brain function.
My suggestion would be to stay away from
the labels. They don't mean a whole lot
and can get you on a nasty roll with
medicines that will cause far more trouble
than she is having right now.
My daughter tried four, and I believe they
caused more seizures than she would have
had without them. Now we are doing a
combination of nutritional changes,
vitamins and minerals that are targeted to
her needs, and neurofeedback.
Her seizures have been reduced from six a
month to .... none, at least this month.
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