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... when your seizures are worse, or when you have more of them?
Is there a certain time of day...
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I find that I will get seizures around the same time each day then the time will change to a different time of day.
I still haven't been able to track what might cause them to change from one time to another. As far as I can tell I do/eat the same thing every day.
I still haven't been able to track what might cause them to change from one time to another. As far as I can tell I do/eat the same thing every day.
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Aside from nocturnal seizures, I didn't think so until I started using the epilepsy.com diary. Pretty quickly a pattern showed up of absence seizures from 11am until lunchtime, then again at 3-3.30pm - when my blood sugar is getting low. So now I have a snack around 11am and 3pm to keep my blood sugar up between main meals, and it's helped.
I hope you can define a pattern so easily!
I hope you can define a pattern so easily!
i only experience nocturnal seizures and they are all at the same time, about a hour before im due to wake up.
they say you're at your deepest sleep just before you wake up which is true for me.
from eeg's and other tests about an hour before you wake up your brain activity drops a further 2-4 Hz this drop is what triggers my tonic clonic/grand mal seizures.
all the other ones ive never taken much notice of, have been thinking of giving epilepsy diary a crack but
they say you're at your deepest sleep just before you wake up which is true for me.
from eeg's and other tests about an hour before you wake up your brain activity drops a further 2-4 Hz this drop is what triggers my tonic clonic/grand mal seizures.
all the other ones ive never taken much notice of, have been thinking of giving epilepsy diary a crack but
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There's some evidence that focal seizures (not the grand mal variety) tend to cluster at certain times of day, depending where in the brain they occur:
-- Occipital seizures peak between 4:00PM and 7:00PM
-- Parietal seizures peak between 4:00AM and 7:00AM
-- Frontal lobe seizures peak between 4:00AM and 7:00AM
-- Mesial temporal lobe seizures have a primary peak in the late afternoon between 4:00PM and 7:00PM and secondary peak in the morning between 7:00AM and 10:00AM.
They think it may have to do with some interaction between your internal body clock and external cues.
-- Occipital seizures peak between 4:00PM and 7:00PM
-- Parietal seizures peak between 4:00AM and 7:00AM
-- Frontal lobe seizures peak between 4:00AM and 7:00AM
-- Mesial temporal lobe seizures have a primary peak in the late afternoon between 4:00PM and 7:00PM and secondary peak in the morning between 7:00AM and 10:00AM.
They think it may have to do with some interaction between your internal body clock and external cues.
I too have found that when my blood sugar starts getting low, The feeling that a Deju va - is about to come on. I eat a snack and that stops.
I tried drink a COKE several days ago, thinking I'm Hysjfls(low blood sugar)
sorry, I don't feel like digging my dictionary to find the right word.
That coke sent me into a full blown low blood sugar attack. won't try that again.