How do you avoid seizures?

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Hi everyone,

This is such a generalized question but would love to know what everyone does on a daily basis to try and avoid seizures (aside from meds).
Do you keep a specific routine? Eat a specific diet? Sleep a number of hrs? Exercise? Vitamins? Go to religious events? And the list could go on.

I know everyone has different kinds of seizures with different severity and different age. I'm currently 28 but have had seizures since I was 14. Very mild and infrequent but it's become more frequent in the past year and kind of become paranoid and concerned about how I can control my seizures aside from meds.

Trying to get a good nights rest each night, exercising regularly, and eating a well balanced diet...all of which I don't know if it actually helps.

Would love to know what everyone else does to try and control their seizures

Thank you
 
Primarily I try (with varying success) to have good sleep hygiene. I regularly experience insomnia which negatively impacts on my epilepsy and mental health.

Also meditate a lot as part of my religious practise.

I do write poetry and do creative journaling.

I need to eat better and exercise more. Existing on a diet of mainly toast and only leaving my bed to go to work is probably not a good life balance.

So some goals to work on.

Q
 
In over 30 years of seizures I have not discovered any triggers for my seizures nor have I found anything other than meds that help with them. Even the meds only seem to control the tonic clonics, not the simple partials. Four of the five meds I've been on have had very unpleasant side-effects, as well. My neurologist has thought for a long time that meds don't really work well for me and I am finally in agreement. I'm probably going to get a vagus nerve stimulator implanted in the near future and see if that helps. Best of luck to you!
 
I've had tonic-clonic seizures since 2009(? not recollecting well at the moment) and have never really experienced any sort of clear trigger.
I cut out caffeine for several weeks, and then weaned myself back onto some, which wasn't all that pleasant, sleep-wise. But I have been experimenting with taking myself off of usual routines and back on to see if they would have effects.
You may want to try to switch up some routines to see if they may have an effect.
A healthy diet can still be tweaked. Try staying healthy but switching your diet around a lot. For example, I've become totally unbiased toward peppers lately. I have had a bias toward bell peppers that I have now completely ditched, and now it's like I can't get enough bell peppers! Which is a great thing, because they have a lot of vitamins and antioxidants and flavinoids and yadda yadda. I don't quite recall.

Also, if you're taking vitamins in pill form and relying on the pill as your only vitamin source I would recommend trying to get more vitamins in food form. Figure out which foods have what (peppers for instance) and try to ditch the pills (and the Emergen-C type, and the muscle-bulk drink type though at least those have protein)
 
My main thing is sleep. I make myself get at least 6 hours of GOOD sleep. If i get less than 5 i'm almost guaranteed a seizure when i wake up within an hour of waking up.
 
Adequate uninterrupted sleep has always been my first line defense against seizures. Waking up too suddenly or after too little sleep has always been a huge risk.

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Biofeedbackuse to keep me from seizing.

When I use to have auras, I was able to use biofeedback to keep myself from having seizures. It kept me from having a lot of seizures actually.

Now that I know longer have auras, ever since I started Clonazepam.
It's very rare that I might get an aura if I do it's usually not enough time before I have the seizure.


Belinda
 
Trying to get enough sleep is important for me. Also, if I am lacking on sleep, too much computer screen time, doubly bad.
 
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