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Did you all see this article in the Epilepsy News page in the forum?
Twitchy Nerves (Literally) May Explain Epilepsy, Pain
The more I read, the more little puzzle pieces fall into place. I had muscle spasms in my back - bad ones. Incredibly painful. For years. They went away when I went on AEDs. My neuro said they weren't seizures and weren't related to the epilepsy in any way, and the reason that the spasms went away was that the meds just affect you in funny ways.
I've been searching for an explanation. Maybe it's the above, maybe not.
Does anybody else in here experience chronic pain? Has your neuro said that it might be related to your seizure disorder, or the root cause of your seizure disorder?
Twitchy Nerves (Literally) May Explain Epilepsy, Pain
The discovery about how nerve cells communicate focuses on the ability of neurons to release chemical signals to nearby cells through the axon, a part of the cell that functions much like an electrical wire by carrying an electrical signal to another cell.
Neurological conditions including epilepsy and chronic pain seem to be triggered by the stimulation of regions of cells in the brain that aren't directly connected to each other. By understanding how these regions are communicating, researchers may be able to come up with better treatments... Dr. Tasaki had measured these mechanical changes in all kinds of tissue — in the retina, in skin," Fields says. "He even showed that the whole spinal cord of a frog twitched when an axon fired."
The more I read, the more little puzzle pieces fall into place. I had muscle spasms in my back - bad ones. Incredibly painful. For years. They went away when I went on AEDs. My neuro said they weren't seizures and weren't related to the epilepsy in any way, and the reason that the spasms went away was that the meds just affect you in funny ways.
I've been searching for an explanation. Maybe it's the above, maybe not.
Does anybody else in here experience chronic pain? Has your neuro said that it might be related to your seizure disorder, or the root cause of your seizure disorder?