Firstly, i'm so sorry for what you are going thru right now. I don't think i'd cope very well trying to live with seizures.
In answer to your question, anxiety and stress have not been proven in anyway to cause seizures, so I guess you have been epileptic all along but it has been lying dormant in your system.
I'm glad the medication is working for you, stay strong!

Hope this helps,
melly

I 'm sorry to hear you are going through all this. I also read your other thread. I just want to let you know you arn't completely alone. I have epilepsy as well as anxiety/ panic issues. My epilepsy is controlled by medication but it is the cause of alot of anxiety for me. I don't believe anxiety causes seizures but stress and or anxiety could be a trigger for seizures. Anyone can have a seizure it's just that for people with epilepsy their seizure threshold is lowered, so it takes less to trigger one. I would recommend to you to get a really good doctor and neurologist who is understanding and knowledgable about epilepsy. Most doctors I have seen don't know anything about epilepsy. It is so different for everyone. My last 2 eggs showed no signs of epileptic activity and that is fairly common, but doesn't mean anything. Some anti covulsants can cause anxiety as well as the fear of having a seizure. Take care of yourself and find out everything about your condition as you can regarding your triggers, warning signs, effective stress management. I hope everything works out for you sam.
Take a look at the epilepsy board there is alot of info there too.

Hey sam I just relized you've been there. Anyway I hope your doing okay.

My 11 year old son had his first seizure when he was 6 1/2. He has only had 5 or 6, but they have always been in response to anxiety. He was diagnosed as epileptic after the 3rd one and we tried a variety of anti-convulsants but they all had too many negative side effects on him, so I took him off them after a year or so. He has only had one seizure since - and it was during a panic attack. I'm sorry to hear about all you are going through, but thank you for sharing so I know i'm not the crazy one. No one (drs.) seems to believe me when I tell them the seizures are panic/anxiety induced and we just need to teach him how to deal with anxiety - not put him on drugs.

Seizures and panick attacks are definately related and they share
the same vascular causes when the arteries loose their normal pulse.

There is no anxiety or cognitive dysfunction that can create these
symptoms and the doctors already know that.

Your cognitive functioning or dysfunctioning cannot influence is a
significant way your vital life signs and visceral bodily functions (eg.
Breathing, hunger, sexual functioning and desire, heart functioning).

In fact, patients can stay in a coma (therefore without any cognitive
functioning) and their body remains functional.

What you are experiencing is caused by heart damage, lung damage
and last but not least systemic arterial damage.

You were born with an extreme congenital heart and arterial defects
(possible missing arteries and definately with abnormal arteries).

This congenital arterial defects turned into "endothelial dysfunction"
when the arteries don't pulsate normal anymore, cannot provide
normal tissue and organ oxygenation and therefore your heart got
ischemic, and it almost lost an important valve (for which it tries to
compensate with that rapid heart beats).
There is nothing to be done at this stage of the disease.

The bad news is that you are dying but not fast enough. And because
the way the doctors, lawyers and media work, nobody will acknowledge
that you have a catastrophic problem, and they will claim that it's
anxiety, a bio-chemical imbalance in your brain or a mental illness so that
they will be able to commit you into a psychiatric hospital and hide your
torture that you experience.

Nobody can help you and the doctors won't do anything to ease up
your death, but to the contrary. They will prolong your life as much
as possible even if that means enourmous torture on you.. This is how
they understand their hippocratic oath and they don't want to
acknowledge that the way you die (in a dignified way) is much more
important than the lenght of your life (or death at this moment).

I would suggest you to tell your story to the local radio talk shows and
media so that these issues get open to the public. As of now, there
is much of tabu in the medical, law and media communities.
Also, ask these questions that I am posing to you in as many health
forums as possible so that all the so called "anxiety" patients will be
warned that their deaths are dreadful.

What a dufus,glad he's been banned!Patty