reflex seizures

Hi I'm a new member and my husband and I have an 8yr old daughter who had had seizures youre she was 5mos old. Started with infantile spasms to myoclonic jerks and twitches to currently tonic seizures caused mainly by outside stimuli (reflex epilepsy). She underwent brain surgery two weeks ago...

My wife has epilepsy and sometimes (JUST NOW) she dialed a phone number and the voicemail came on and she got the aura that she gets before she has a seizure, this has happened more than a few times. Thankfully sometimes she is able to compose herself and not have a seizure. It seems like...

:soap: Thought I'd say hello. My daughter is 16, has had complex partial seizures for years. We don't know exactly when they started because we didn't know they were happening! (She now thinks it when she was 8, now that she can put words to odd experiences she was having.) She had a couple...

Kind of the opposite of how hot weather can cause a seizure-I swim in the ocean a lot. My body temperature drops at least 3-5 degrees. I noticed unlike when I am outside in 85-90 degree weather, right after I swim in the cold water, I am as far as I can get from feeling as if I am going to...

I've been on the EF forum since I was diagnosed 3 years ago, but I finally encountered my last straw there. My seizures are caused by certain smells. But every time i've posted that on the other site I've been immediately told that I can't be having epilepsy, don't belong on there, must not...

The link below is to a very in depth article on reflex epilepsy, seizures triggered by things such as light, reading, and yes, even thinking! It is a technical but has a lot of useful information. A quote from the article below: Link to full artcle...

http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/about/photosensitivity/gerba.cfm

It doesn't bother me anymore (not since I was about 10yrs old)...but my FIRST seizure was while watching 'Speed Racer' (Japanese animation) on a Saturday morning. I wonder if 'once triggered'--the dam is broken? :twocents: [edit: this discussion is a tangent that was split off to preserve...

Howdy Here's something I found Precipitating Stimuli for Reflex Seizures

Apparently, playing this thinking game, which can require intense concentration, can induce seizures: Mah-jong epilepsy: a new reflex epilepsy Mahjong can spark epilepsy: study This seems counter-intuitive to the brain boosting techniques that are often mentioned for maintaining or...