sleep seizures?

[petero]

I'm prone to sleep seizures apparently. But without someone in bed with me it's hard to tell if I've had them.
I've been nauseous all day and nearly threw up a couple times this morning. Very very bad abdominal pain. I've also stretched out today and seem to have managed to find specific muscle group areas that I can stretch or poke at and almost seem to reverse engineer a fainting response, or a drop seizure type of sensation - or whatever - I don't know, I've never had "drop seizures" but I mean a weightless/legs going out from under me/going to fall type of sensation.
I haven't drank in over 10 years now but the feeling is reminiscent of a hangover: the nausea, blurry headed...
I wonder if it's reasonable to think that a lot of heavy drinking could have given me epilepsy.
Sure sure drinking can cause seizures. Of course. But I don't drink. But the feeling is very comparable. I wonder if drinking is where my seizures began. I guess there's no way to know for sure.
The hypothalamus is near the frontal lobe, and it is related to hunger...
I wonder if anyone has the low-down on relation to stomach/brain

 

[DayDreamer]

I don't know if this website is desired, but section four is on the hypothalamus and limbic system. I don't remember any mention between stomach and seizures in these, but I may be wrong. There is a LOT of material. The author is a neuropsychologist with quite a few papers. In order to be able to read the material desired, you need to be able to navigate through the websites' advertisements.

http://brainmind.net/BrainLecture4.html

lecture 7 is available at this site if desired:
http://www.feelingwood.net/zbxe/?co...rder_type=asc&page=1&document_srl=2247&cpage=

 

[Nakamova]

Here's one link: There are actually neurons in the stomach! Brain cells in your belly! 95 percent of the body's serotonin is found in the bowels! See this article for the details: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gut-second-brain

Another possible link: One of the cranial nerves that can be involved in seizures is the vagus nerve. It goes from the brain through the neck and down through the chest and abdomen. It communicates sensory information about various organs (including the stomach and the heart) to the central nervous system. When folks feel those sensations of nausea and increased heart rate, it can be related to the vagus nerve. (You may have read about one epilepsy treatment called the VNS -- that's an implanted "pacemaker" that targets the vagus nerve.)