Epilepsy and Stuttering?

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Is stuttering more common among people who have epilepsy? Has anyone here linked their stuttering to seizure activity?
 
Oh yes,i certainly link stuttering before i have a seizure,but not in everyday life
 
I stutter for the first 3 minutes or so when I am postictal...is it possible your stutter is being caused by seizure activity?
 
When I was younger, i always stuttered. Now its gotten better, but I notice it mostly when Im nervous, like when Im needing to talk on the phone to the drs, or such. I hate it, but at times it does happen to me.
 
Hi um-adam, I have stammering during my seizures,I have frontal lobe epilepsy. j.j
 
Thanks to those who replied. The question was regarding my son, who has been stuttering ever since he first learned to talk. He is 17 now and was just diagnosed with epilepsy, but the doctor said he has probably been having seizures since he was young. I am just wondering if I missed any major signs throughout his childhood.
 
Hey Adam

Since your son was diagnosed with epilepsy,did you find an effective treatment for the stutter?thanks
 
I noticed over the past couple of weeks the studdering has picked up for me. Ive noticed I do it more over the phone though. its like I know what to say, I just cant get it out.
 
There are days my words are slur, I don't notice it, when I talking to someone on the phone they will ask how I'm feeling.

I will know that I'm not feeling good--TO STAY CLOSE TO CHAIR--sometimes a seizure (deja vu) will come on.

Then again I slur my words when I don't get enough sleep.
 
I have been seizure free for 2 years but I started stuttering about 6 months ago, it isn't to bad & doesn't happen alot.
I seem to stutter more when I am talking to people I know (eg my parents, friends) & they usually work out what I'm trying to say.

I try not to worry about the stuttering but have tried to pin point if there is a reason why I sometimes stutter eg - if it is related to the epilepsy / meds or if I am tired because I didn't sleep well. My Mum used to have a bad stutter when she was young, she barely ever stutters now so not sure if there is a connection there.

I had been meaning to ask my neurologist at the epilepsy clinic or neuropsych about the stuttering for a while but kept forgetting. I finally mentioned the stuttering to my neuropsych in an email I sent her last week, she got back to me Today & said she wasn't sure why I was stuttering but suggested I monitor it.

I am due to see my local neurologist soon for a follow up appt & going to see if I can get in to see him around mid May (last time I saw my neuro was May 2011 when I was 2 months post surgery). If the stuttering continues I am thinking of mentioning it to my neuro when I do go see him.
 
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I stutter after aura's, (flashing lights, color blocks, smells, muscle tense, and all the other wonderful hard to describe things that happen to me) and have bitten my tonque trying to talk. I also stutter before all these things happen to me, so guess it's aura-simple, complex, simple, aura? postictal? Heck, I dont know and can't keep up anyway. My mind cannot grasp the difference, I only know when something aint right!

Screammmmmmmmmmmminnnnnnnng! Frustrated : (
 
I don't stutter but I do have trouble getting my words out. Usually I am pretty articulate but when I am having seizure activity sometimes the brain knows what to say but the mouth doesn't want to say it.
 
Sandie said:
I don't stutter but I do have trouble getting my words out. Usually I am pretty articulate but when I am having seizure activity sometimes the brain knows what to say but the mouth doesn't want to say it.
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you're right! perhaps its not stuttering for me either, the words get all jumbled up, my mind is finished with what I want to say and mouth is playing catch up, sounds like stuttering and e-bonics while chewing on a big wad of gum. Every now and then I choke drinking liquids and eating food (atleast a few times a week) and bite my tongue when trying to talk or chewing? I never had a problem before the seizures started.

I see my neuro dr in about 3wks, definately going to mention choking episodes and since reading this thread the stuttering/unable to speak.
 
I stutter right before a TC. Someone pointed it out to me, that it happens about 5 minutes before. I never knew.
 
Dogtor J has a great article on stuttering

Stuttering

Interesting to me because I was told I stuttered as a child. Reducing pressure (stress) on me was how my mom targeted it.
 
I tend to think too fast for my mouth sometimes. This causes the words to come out too fast. Which may appear like stuttering. This happens when I'm fine. To remedy this I try to get my thoughts together first than speak. I tend to be shy anyway, this makes it worse.

When I'm having a CPS, I tend to have slurred speech. I've suffered from this over twenty years. There's nothing I can do about that. :(
 
I do notice myself stutter a bit since I've been diagnosed- but like others I think it maybe more to do with meds than anything, it does seem more like 'knowing the word, but not knowing how to say it' that what I imagine it feels like to stutter with a tick.

I'm willing to believe though it is another bit of random brain-damage I've accrued, but since it's not really that frequent and doesn't seem to be increased by my seizures, I'll go for the meds being the cause.

Any kind of strangeness during your post-ictal phase is propably only to be expected really. I lose full speach afterwards (tho again, I know the words I want to say inside but just can't externalise them.
 
I was only stuttering when I took my meds. Not saying the seizures didn't cause me some vocal issues.

Increasing doses usually leave me in a confused state until my body adjust. Looking at seizure logs always shows some rough issues with speech/word recall.
 
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