Nocturnal Seizures

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One thing that I have researched is the connection of nocturnal sleep seizures with sleep apnea. I'm starting on my new cpap soon. I haven't been on it for about 2 years and get the episodes every couple nights. So keep that in mind with your nocturnal seizures. It get's pretty confusing because they go right into a dream most of the time. You can think you are having one, but if you remember what you saw, sometimes it is a dream. Like last night I was concerned with closing my blinds because they were open. I thought I was awake. But no, because when I became awake, I saw that my blinds were closed.
 
im just glad that things are finally becoming clearer for me and now im finally understanding certain things, maybe coincidence? possibly... but this forum has 100% helped get my head around the im not alone in this experience

thank you everyone
 
I have strange episodes that I am not sure if they are sleepwalking or if I am having Complex Partial seizures while sleeping. One time I managed to get up, and went to the bathroom and cut off a bit of my hair. I had no memory of this, but I did notice the missing hair when I ran my fingers through my hair the next morning - I don't know why I would do that since I don't usually run my fingers through my hair as soon as I wake - But when I went to the bathroom I found the hair in the sink. There was another very embarrassing time when I was staying at a small hotel, and all I remember is looking for my pj's before going to bed. The next thing I know I was at the back door trying to get in. The woman who runs the hotel, opened the back door for me, and was very concerned, she told me that she heard the alarm on the door that led to the back, and that I went outside without even hearing the alarm, took off my clothes, walked around, then put my clothes back on, and went to the back door. She caught all this on the security camera. I also wake up in strange places in my apartment. I would like to know if anyone else have these strange episodes, and should I mention this to my Neuro at my next visit, or if it's really something that is just part of my Complex Partials. The sleepwalking is relative new for me, as they have just started happening in the last year. I am on Lamictal and Clobazam, and also had surgery.
 
UPDATE: I have been on my cpap since I posted that date and there is no decrease in my in between stage episodes. Although the sleep specialist said they would go away once I started...hah, a lot they know.
 
Have you had a sleep study done with the cpap on? It might shed some more light on what's going on.
 
Nakamova, yes....but I never get the episodes while there. Nothing was noted other than my breathing episodes.
 
I'm pretty sure you're not alone on this one. Some get up and do strange things during a complex partial.
It took a 72 hour video EEG (at home thankfully) for my doctor to see me doing my night time thing. 14 times a night, he said. Luckily I usually stayed in bed and did things like situps. Other times I would throw things, slap my wife (not kidding), etc. Adding a medication took care of the problem. At the time, the EEG showed no abnormal activity besides the fact that it showed I was awake at a time I couldn't remember. He called it an "aura", which I would call a simple partial.
My neurologist thought it was RBD, but when I did the sleep study, I slept like a baby.

I'm very glad that is over. I barely move in my sleep, now.
 
Wow, Sperlo! Glad you have resolve. The only thing I experience is an intense full body tingling, hallunications. I don't have that feeling of being smothered or cannot move. After the tingling or music is gone, I feel like I'm in a light dream state for lack of a better word where I have movement.
 
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