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Well, I think its fairly obvious now that Im only on 1 seizure medication, that if i dont get enough sleep, I will have seizures 
Last night, I felt tired, but just couldnt fall asleep. Ive been fighting what I think is a sinus infection for at least two weeks now. Lots of pain in my ears, tons of draining, etc. I dont want to go into full details and make someone get sick!
But last night I was so tired, but for some reason, i tossed and turned all night long! I remember getting this heavy feeling in my left arm, kind of like when your arm goes numb, like if you were laying on your arm... that kind of feeling. Then my heart started to pick up, and I felt sick to my stomach. I remember sitting up, and taking my left hand to try to grab anything I could to focus on trying to get this feeling to go away. At that time, my upper body started to turn to the right. I knew right then it was a seizure starting. I fought it off the best I could, and knew when the feeling went away what took place. I so badly wanted to call my mom, but it was well into the night, after 2AM, and she had to get up for work early this morning. So I decided to try to sleep it off and see if i felt better. Luckly, I felt really tired afterwords and finally went to sleep. I was so tired, I woke up to get the kids going for school, and my husband luckly didnt have to go into work til 8am, so he took the kids for me, and I layed back down til 11:30am! Even then, I had to tell myself to get up! Our youngest had woken up earlier and came crawling into bed with me. I think it best to say that with having no back up medication, ( I was on carbatrol along with keppra for years) and now only being on Keppra, if I dont get enough sleep, the seizures will come on.
One thing I was trying to look up, was if being sick, can stress your body out, along with the lack of sleep, would that increase your chances of having a seizure?
onder:
Last night, I felt tired, but just couldnt fall asleep. Ive been fighting what I think is a sinus infection for at least two weeks now. Lots of pain in my ears, tons of draining, etc. I dont want to go into full details and make someone get sick! But last night I was so tired, but for some reason, i tossed and turned all night long! I remember getting this heavy feeling in my left arm, kind of like when your arm goes numb, like if you were laying on your arm... that kind of feeling. Then my heart started to pick up, and I felt sick to my stomach. I remember sitting up, and taking my left hand to try to grab anything I could to focus on trying to get this feeling to go away. At that time, my upper body started to turn to the right. I knew right then it was a seizure starting. I fought it off the best I could, and knew when the feeling went away what took place. I so badly wanted to call my mom, but it was well into the night, after 2AM, and she had to get up for work early this morning. So I decided to try to sleep it off and see if i felt better. Luckly, I felt really tired afterwords and finally went to sleep. I was so tired, I woke up to get the kids going for school, and my husband luckly didnt have to go into work til 8am, so he took the kids for me, and I layed back down til 11:30am! Even then, I had to tell myself to get up! Our youngest had woken up earlier and came crawling into bed with me. I think it best to say that with having no back up medication, ( I was on carbatrol along with keppra for years) and now only being on Keppra, if I dont get enough sleep, the seizures will come on.
One thing I was trying to look up, was if being sick, can stress your body out, along with the lack of sleep, would that increase your chances of having a seizure?
onder:
