Sudden increase in seizures!!!help!!

[lornatjepson]

Please can anybody tell me if this is normal. My husband for the past three years has suffered from tonic clonic seizures roughly every three months untill this last week.It started at two in the morning, I was woken by my husbands seizure, it resulted in his shoulder being dislocated, we returned from A&E at six am, an hour later he had another seizure again causing his shoulder to come out, throughout the day he had three more seizures, his shoulder came out again. Has anybody else had a sudden increase in seizures like this? The doctors cant find a reason and nothing has changed recently to explain it. It has gotton to the point of his shoulder dislocating very easily and understandably he is very down and fed up with it all.

He has a consult with surgeons to discuss stabilising the shoulder but im constantly on edge waiting for his shoulder to come out or for him to have a seizure, please PLEASE can anybody give us some advice on how to deal with this and how I can support him 100%.

xx

 

[Bec31]

Hi Lorna

Sorry to hear about your partner's seizures and joint dislocations. I have tonic clonic seizures and have them at a rate of one per month usually, but on 23 April 2011 it went on for nine minutes. I've never had full dislocations, but know that it's very painful if the joint moves an inch or two for me. I think joints take alot of wear and tear during seizures, which doesn't help.

I have skimmed milk in my diet as it contains the most calcium, which helps my bones.I used to have 4-5 tonic clonic seizures a month a few years back.

I'm sure you're already very supportive to your husband and he'll know that.

Take care

Becky

 

[Nakamova]

Hi Lorna --

It can be hard to know what's going on when a seizure pattern changes. Sometimes it's stress -- physical, physiological, emotional. It could be a fever, or an infection. It could be a reaction to a particular food (MSG? alcohol?). OR did your husband maybe miss a dose of meds?. If his seizures are at all related to scarring in the brain, it could be some miniscule shift there, or in his blood flow, or in his metabolism that has thrown things off. It's possible the recent seizures compounded each other -- the stress and fatigue of the first one, plus maybe dehydration, plus the pain of the shoulder. Was he given any sort of meds at the ER? Maybe those were a contributing factor.

I had the same problem with my shoulder. It dislocated after a seizure. It might have healed up, but then it dislocated during another seizure and got worse. It started popping out all the time on its own, without any precipitating trauma. It got so I could pop it back in myself. Eventually, I realized I needed to do something about it -- I went ahead and had surgery to repair the torn labrum in my shoulder, and it's been fine since.

 

[lornatjepson]

thank you for responding, its so relieving to know that these clusters can happen for the tiniest reason, I was scared that they would remain this constant. Is there any way we can prevent this happening again? It is also good to know that after the surgery the shoulder will be resolved, I hate to see him in pain all the time.

 

[elizzza811]

You might want to check out this thread...

http://www.coping-with-epilepsy.com/forums/f23/seizures-solar-geomagnetic-activity-11768/#post120121

Last week was pretty active 'geomagnetically'...

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/archive/archive_01Apr2011.html

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/archive/archive_16Apr2011.html

In fact, for a couple of weeks there in April we had a couple of sunspots that harbored a 'beta gamma' magnetic field. The link below is from April 17th, but sunspots 1190 and 1193 were the 'beta gamma' culprits...

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=17&month=04&year=2011