sleep seizure?

[petero]

I drank about a cup of white vinegar last night (bleah - I do not recommend this at all) to help with having eaten some raw salmon hours earlier that I thought might have started giving me gastrointestinal problems.

At home late last night I started having some substantial stomach upset, so I drank the vinegar, which I rapidly found was way too much. Well then about an hour later I went to bed.
I started hearing the screaming voices again, which last night I'm pretty sure turned out being my downstairs neighbor and his boyfriend - surmised after hearing some sorts of 1 a.m. romantic farewells outside...
but anyway, aside from my own sour nature regarding the success of the sex lives of others, I woke up this morning in sweat sweat sweat, and now several hours later it really feels like I had some night seizure activity - legs are very sore for no reason, calves, hips, arm, shoulder, back/neck/head - and after having had no departures from my usual routine, these pains led me to surmise sleep seizure

I looked up to see if vinegar might have some relevance as a trigger- which it does not seem to have.

So I guess I finally started convincing myself again that I actually do have epilepsy and that I have had seizures and that those past events were indeed not related to some sort of alien time-travel psychic abduction :giveup:

Then I started wondering if what led to my drinking vinegar in the first place might have been response to an aura involving gastrointestinal distress.

I ate the salmon in the late a.m. - about 12 hours later I started having the *urps* in my tummy.
Now.. having had food poisoning before, years ago, (just say "no" to Mexican food carts) I recall the food poisoning acted within an hour or two- an hour or two before I was vomiting with near constance for a few hours/overnight... or so.

If the salmon had given me tapeworm I figure there would have been more dramatic symptoms by now

(Intestinal infection
Signs and symptoms of intestinal infection include:
Nausea
Weakness
Loss of appetite
Abdominal pain
Diarrhea
Weight loss and inadequate absorption of nutrients from food)

and what I'm experiencing now in terms of pain feels more like the results of physical strain and not nausea etc.

I'm going to poop in a bag maybe tomorrow/next available to see if any worms show up over a day (yeah I'm that type of guy)

but then again maybe I'm just going through some postictal thinking onder:
fun fun! who wouldn't want to poop in a bag to look at a day later anyway?
hey it's not that strange of an idea - it's a precaution
the salmon was farmed in Chile anyway - which means it would have been deep-frozen, which means bacteria,worms=dead
and I love sushi, sashimi, so it's not like my body would be shocked by raw fish

but I guess I'm wondering if anyone has had any preictal/ictal/partial seizure activity that involved eating, drinking - eating drinking strange things - having bacteria paranoia...

well, concern over the bacteria was legit - I was paying attention to how I felt after eating it (the rest has been re-frozen, for add'l precaution) - but in retrospect - "what the hell was I thinking drinking so much vinegar???"
then waking to the ughs... feels a bit like I'd played hockey last night

I wonder if the sick stomach and vinegar thing were auras of some kind - basically after that point of the evening I felt bad and went to bed

 

[Nakamova]

Triggers can be cumulative, so your possible seizure might not be directly linked to either the vinegar or salmon, but to one or more factors over the course of several preceding days -- fatigue + low blood sugar + nutritional imbalance + ?

 

[petero]

thanks nakamova
again that's some good info to know that I did not know
I have had low calorie intake a couple days, but I do take vitamins etc.
stress over worms/bacteria in the raw salmon was minimal, but maybe I have a raw salmon sensitivity, maybe the vinegar shocked my system quite a bit also.
"maybe"? it was definitely extraordinary
bleahhh

 

[Kaitybugsmom]

Not sure why you would drink that much vinegar either.. I do know that some Dr's and other believe that vinegar has some link to health. I have high blood pressure and I hate taking my meds they make me feel so crappy! My Dr. suggested that I try vinegar and garlic as they were shown to increase blood flow and lower blood pressure. I did try it for a little bit but found that the vinegar made me feel all hot and flushed and of course secreating garlic from your glands doesnt smell so pretty...alas, I take the prescription meds and deal with feeling crappy.

I have had a few cases of food poisoning and know that depending on the 'poison' depends on the onset of symptoms. Im not sure you have to worry about tape worm..

The most common tapeworms to infect humans in Western Europe and USA/Canada are:
Taenia solium - the pork tapeworm. Also known as the armed tapeworm or measly tapeworm.

Taenia saginata - the beef tapeworm. Also called the unarmed tapeworm.

Hemynolepis nana - the dwarf tapeworm.

however, if you do find one let me know, I hear they are great for weight loss

I did find this pretty interesting article though and thought I would share.
http://www.activitas.org/index.php/nervosa/article/viewFile/98/147

 

[huskymom]

I doubt that you would find any signs of a tape worm that would be visiable to the naked eye that quick. I am pretty sure that it would have to take at least a week if not longer. How has your tummy felt since? I am sorry that you are now caught in this cycle of over thinking everything. I do the same to myself and have found that if I can break it, then most of the other symptoms will go as well. Except for the seizures that is

 

[petero]

I doubt that you would find any signs of a tape worm that would be visiable to the naked eye that quick. I am pretty sure that it would have to take at least a week if not longer. How has your tummy felt since? I am sorry that you are now caught in this cycle of over thinking everything. I do the same to myself and have found that if I can break it, then most of the other symptoms will go as well. Except for the seizures that is

my stomach has felt basically good since then - so maybe some undue panic on my part