can partial seizures be brought on by stress?

[tara]

if you get a bang to the head in an accident months ago and had partial seizures since,is it possible that stress can bring them on along with servere headaches?

 

[Cint]

Stress definitely plays a HUGE role in seizures!

How does stress trigger seizures?

~Stress makes or releases certain hormones related to the nervous system that can impact the brain.
~Areas of the brain important for some types of seizures, for example partial seizures, are the same areas of the brain involved in emotions and responding to stress.

Read here for more info on the subject:

http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/triggers-seizures/stress-and-epilepsy

 

[CQ:)]

Stress & fatigue have always been the main 2 trigger for my seizures

 

[tara]

thanks for the replies x
But what iam trying to say,if the impact done the damage in the first place when I was knocked out/lost a few mins in the minor accident,can stress trigger the partial sezuires even a year later?
thanks for your thoughts and advice.i thought I was going crazy having these partal sezuires and did not like talking about them to anyone.i have some good days,but when I have these partial sezuires I have bad/foggy/just not feeling right days.

 

[Nakamova]

Stress can trigger seizures even a year later. Seizures can have a primary cause (such as head trauma, infection or genetic susceptibility) that lowers the seizure threshold. And then there are secondary triggers (physical, physiological, emotional and/or environmental stressors), that push you over that threshold.

When I had my first seizures, the most likely secondary triggers were stress: I was in the middle of the break-up of a long-term relationship and I wasn't sleeping or eating properly. The primary cause is unknown (as it is for the majority of people with epilepsy), but the neurologists think it could be a nasty head injury -- one that occurred thirty years before I had my seizures! So there can absolutely be a delayed effect.

 

[Cint]

But what iam trying to say,if the impact done the damage in the first place when I was knocked out/lost a few mins in the minor accident,can stress trigger the partial sezuires even a year later?

In addition to what Nakamova said, here is more info on brain injury and seizures.

http://mnepilepsy.org/news/concussion-traumatic-brain-injury-and-seizures/

Concussion, traumatic brain injury and seizures

~Head trauma is one of the most commonly identified reasons that patients develop epilepsy. Most studies suggest that approximately 6% of patients with epilepsy have TBI as the cause.
~The more severe the head trauma, the higher the risk of developing epilepsy. For example, patients with penetrating brain injury have a 53% chance of developing epilepsy.
***Epilepsy does not typically develop immediately after head trauma. Often, there are a few months, or even longer, before recurrent seizure activity is noted.

 

[acshuman]

Stress

Stress is something that can trigger both seizures and migraines! Trying to keep the stress you have in your life as level as you can can be one of the MOST important things you can do.
All it would take to trigger a seizure would be something like getting your home ready for someone who is going to be visiting(worrying that it will be good enough for the visitor).
Some people can handle stress in a way that allows them to face more stress.
I use the head football coach at the University of Minnesota as an example. He was diagnosed w/E when he was in his forties and working at a small college. He had been coaching his entire life. When he took the job at UofM he was fine for a while. Then he had a few seizures while he was on the sidelines of games. He was able to plan a way to handle the rising stress that he was feeling at the job for a few years. He finally resigned during the 2015 season, because he was having more and more problems dealing with the stress.
One of the ways that he had kept the stress down was that he had the same set of assistant coaches for almost 2 decades and they all knew about his E and knew what to do if they saw anything that could possibly stress out the coach, and by stopping this they could lighten the stress on the coach!
Having to face extra stress can be a hard thing to deal with!onder:

ACsHuman:hugs:

 

[N Sperlo]

Stress was a big trigger for me. I've learned to control my stress levels better and in fact have become quite the master at it.

If this is a problem for you, I suggest meditation.

 

[marika853]

Ditto here. Hormones have also played a role in my condition. First started having auras when going thru menopause.
M

 

[acshuman]

Causes of Stress

A person who has E needs to develop the type of mindset that I use two professional sports positions to explain. This type of mindset can be described using a baseball 'closer' and a hockey 'goalie'. In the closer's case he may have to pitch everyday for several days in a row so if he has a bad performance and allows the runs to score that cause his team to lose the game, he can't let what has just happened bother him because he has to be ready to possibly pitch in the team's next game. If he were to let that bad performance hold him back, this would be similar to the feeling a person w//E would feel after experiencing a seizure, he would NOT be able to perform as well as he could if he didn't hang onto this happening.
Another example is a hockey goalie getting down on themselves, if they allow a goal. If the goalie let allowing a goal to bother them they would NOT be able to continue forward in the hockey game and perform at the level they were capable of playing at without that type of thought limiting their performance.
I think these two examples describe how a person w/E has to be able to put their 'having a seizure' behind them and NOT let having that seizure have an effect on the way they deal with their life in the future.onder:

ACsHuman:hugs:

 

[seagull]

It do with me and badly

 

[lindsayschu2]

I've had seizures all my life but they used to be controlled, until I had a head injury 3 years ago. Now the only things that cause them are hormones and high levels of stress (has to be pretty high though since my every day is stressful ) Funny thing (well, not funny) is when I was closing my lawsuit against the driver under the influence who hit me, my neuro wrote a letter requested by my lawyer, but said that head injuries can cause refractory seizures in people who have no history of epilepsy, but she could find no evidence in the literature that head injuries can increase seizures in people with existing epilepsy!! That B word! She killed my case, meanwhile, I still have seizures (though getting better). Do I need to mention I found a new neuro? Good luck with stress--try meditation, made a huge difference for me.

 

[Belinda5000]

Ever been told you need to rid ur lif of stress

I not only have had epilepsy all my life; I also have other health problems that cause stress in my life also. I have afib /bradycardia,alleries,arthritis,sz's not controlled refractory.It's easier said than done to get stress out of ur life.
My sz's are always coming and coming in my life and it's been more and more in my life lately.:e:

 

[acshuman]

Causes

Lindsay,
If that is all that your neurologist could find or say about how seizures CAN become more severe after additional blows to the head, that neurologist didn't try too hard to get the full explanation for you!
All it would have taken was a couple of calls to find out how incorrect that statement was!onder:

ACsHuman

 

[Alberta]

Hi Tara,
I didn't have any seizures at all until a car accident too many years ago to mention. My Doctor explained that because scarring on my brain was permanent from the accident, the seizures would never stop. I started with grand mal all night the night of the accident but now have complex partial. They have lessened as I have gotten older but are still brought on by stress, tiredness, illness and becoming tolerant of certain medication which causes rebound seizures. When I discussed having the scar tissue removed the Doctor explained that our brains are like a forest, with evergreen and deciduous trees. If the scarring was the deciduous trees, and they removed that tissue, there would still be a risk that working tissue, the evergreen trees, would be removed. The scarring on your brain is the reason you have seizures and unfortunately, it is not always easy to remove. Hope this information makes things a little clearer.

 

[Frink]

If the head injury caused the "permanent" condition of epilepsy than anything that lowers your seizure threshold can bring about a seizure, stress, illness, injury, nutrition, hormones..............

And the severe headaches/ migraines/ pain, can all be symptoms of a seizure.