grandma have a seizure?

[valeriedl]

My grandma woke up last night shaking, confused, couldn't move or talk right. They called an ambulance for her and they did all sorts of tests but couldn't find anything wrong. They kept her over night and she came home this morning feeling ok. She's waiting to get in to see her pcp for him to see her.

She has heart problems and I'm wondering if she may have had a seizure of some sorts.

 

[Nakamova]

Sleep paralysis, perhaps? And if she has cardiac issues it could affect her breathing and nighttime sleeping. Is she on any medications? Those can also have side effects on sleep.

 

[valeriedl]

She takes a good bit of meds for heart. I can't remember if she had a heart attack or not but she did have a bypass. I can't remember how long ago this was but it was at least 10 years ago, probably more.

She was having problems recently. They found blockage. Because of surgery she had on her neck and back that she had a while ago she is unable to have heart surgery. They aren't able to get her positioned right on the table because of her spine to do any surgery on her heart. She had a new type of therapy where she had pumping things wrapped around her legs. How it works is to make your blood flow stronger. She finished up with the therapy a month ago. She's been doing pretty good.

She has diabetes but she controls it with her diet and hasn't had any problems.

She's 83 years old, I don't know if that's something to take into consideration or not.

 

[Nakamova]

There are enough things going on that her PCP is probably the best bet to try and figure out what happened. Often as people age, med dosages need to get lowered to reflect their slower metabolisms, so it might be something related to that.