Why Not all people with Brain injuries get Seizures?

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Even when some people had brain injuries were they had to have deep operations and have their head open or tumors removed,,, some of those people do not have seizures. yet other people who maybe just fell and it wasn't a huge car accident or nothing..but they suffer from seizures forever.

And also fighters also fight and keep getting hit and they don't have seizures.


So how come some do get Seizures and some don't??:brain:
 
niceguyVZ said:
And also fighters also fight and keep getting hit and they don't have seizures.
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I'm not a sports fan but from the clips I see on tv of football, boxing, etc and my best friend years ago was a huge hockey fan so it was on the tv a lot at his house, I can't believe those folks have normal brain activity!

I know those of us with E are a small % of the population, seems like you never hear anything about it. :ponder:
 
niceguyVZ said:
Even when some people had brain injuries were they had to have deep operations and have their head open or tumors removed,,, some of those people do not have seizures. yet other people who maybe just fell and it wasn't a huge car accident or nothing..but they suffer from seizures forever.



So how come some do get Seizures and some don't??:brain:
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And then there are those who've never had any brain injuries, tumors or diseases, and we still have seizures too..... forever..... :ponder:. The neuroscientists are asking the same. I've known several folks who have had brain tumors, but yet they never had any seizures. The brain is very interesting, isn't it? Here is some interesting info about TBI:

What Immediate Post-Injury Complications Can Occur From a TBI?

Sometimes, health complications occur in the period immediately following a TBI. These complications are not types of TBI, but are distinct medical problems that arise as a result of the injury. Although complications are rare, the risk increases with the severity of the trauma. Complications of TBI include immediate seizures, hydrocephalus or post-traumatic ventricular enlargement, CSF leaks, infections, vascular injuries, cranial nerve injuries, pain, bed sores, multiple organ system failure in unconscious patients, and polytrauma (trauma to other parts of the body in addition to the brain).

About 25 percent of patients with brain contusions or hematomas and about 50 percent of patients with penetrating head injuries will develop immediate seizures , seizures that occur within the first 24 hours of the injury. These immediate seizures increase the risk of early seizures - defined as seizures occurring within 1 week after injury - but do not seem to be linked to the development of /I>post-traumatic epilepsy (recurrent seizures occurring more than 1 week after the initial trauma). Generally, medical professionals use anticonvulsant medications to treat seizures in TBI patients only if the seizures persist.
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Eli said:
I know those of us with E are a small % of the population, seems like you never hear anything about it.
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That's because we all need to "Talk About It"

Check this out:
http://talkaboutit.org/
 
brain damage is like playing the slot machines, you can never tell what the outcome will be, probability stated that I would not survive and be severely impaired if I did survive, It has changed my life forever, who I am in many ways, but I am alive, my seizures are under control, yet my emotions and memory are issues for me.
 
Life is like a box of chocolates..... You get eaten and then $#%& out. Sorry to be so blunt about it, but it is what it is. Like Abynorml said, it's like playing the slots, you just don't know. Look at it this way, at least some people don't have to deal with it every time an acorn falls out of a tree and hits them in the head.
 
I will add that I did go Status after my injury. I had been fighting epilepsy before my TBI so it was not a huge surprise, though I take some happiness that I went status in front of a neurologist that only 4 years before had said it was impossible that I had a grand mal, because I was already on topamax. I switched doctors years ago, but he was one of the Doctors that treated me in the hospital and put me on dilantin. It cost a lot to be right, but I sure showed him.
 
I just tried to post a long post about TBI but the webpage screwed up and now its gone, I was going to mention CTE and the many different forms of TBI, I don't have the patience to type it all out again.
 
I've gone status several times even while taking multiple AEDs and after having brain surgery. No explanation from any epileptologists that I've seen, except that I have refractory E.
 
I am also the only person in my family with epilepsy and many of us have been knocked upside the head. I am however prone to head injuries as my husband has pointed out. I hit my head numerous times a month, I had three concussions before my eighteenth birthday, had two head traumas resulting in gaping wounds and hospital visits, stitches and things constantly seem yo fall on my head. Idk what it is. But my epilepsy is a result of a head injury when I was 5 in a car accident. Not one person in my family got epilepsy from a head injury apart from me and I'm the "safe" one
 
I had a severe head injury many years ago when I was 14. I had absence seizures for 2 years, was fine, stopped all meds & then I was okay up until 2years ago. I'm now 43 and having to deal with partials. I'm very lucky it's not worse though. The brain is just sooo complex and like others have said, sometimes it's the luck of the draw. Oh, I also have an arachnoid cyst on my brain which is either congenital or acquired through head trauma.
 
Why do folk who never had a head injury with no history of this illness in their family just randomly develop it!?
 
Why do folk who never had a head injury with no history of this illness in their family just randomly develop it!?
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You could just as well ask why only some members of a family with a history of epilepsy develop it while others do not. Epilepsy is only a very loose term for a disorder with multiple points of origin, multiple pathways and trajectories, and scientists are only just beginning to understand some of the factors at work when someone has a seizure.
 
Nakamova said:
You could just as well ask why only some members of a family with a history of epilepsy develop it while others do not. Epilepsy is only a very loose term for a disorder with multiple points of origin, multiple pathways and trajectories, and scientists are only just beginning to understand some of the factors at work when someone has a seizure.
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Hasn't it been around since like the dawn of humanity? They sure are taking their time
 
It is what it is! Some of us are just "lucky" to have this and others aren't. I think only God can answer that question. We just have to learn to live with the hand that has been dealt us.
The truth is that the body is an amazing thing! Look at one person falls off a horse and gets right back up and another falls and is paralyzed! Explain that. We can't!
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Recently I've been looking at the various gene studies that have been done over the years. There seem to be 'loads' that have been linked or are at least suspected to be linked with various types of seizures.

After you've read a few, you start wondering why people with E and their families aren't at least tested for these suspected genes. One of the original 'OMG!! Genetic cause for Epilepsy found at last!!' papers was in 1965! 50 years on and still no change in treatment.

Has anyone's neurologist ever even bothered asking if it was common in their family? My original one briefly asked, but none of the others have.

I would be a perfect case for a genetic cause to my susceptibility to MTLE- no scarring/lesions, no tumours or identifiable trauma etc. Yet they've never bothered to check mine or my mother's genes. I was palmed off by being told I had a 'magical' encephalitis virus that was invisible in a LP.

As Nak said, there are so many contributing factors, most of which are unknown- let alone a handful of suspect genes that aren't even being tested for in patients yet.

Just keep taking the tablets. PING! Next case please.. :/
 
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I know I've posted about this before, but my epilepsy is caused, from a TBI, when I was still in the womb, I had rubbed or bumped my head on my Mother's ribs and since the skull isn't fully developed until after babies are born, it damaged my brain, and I have a large scar on the right side of my head because of it, and the dr's cut around it to perform the surgery.

And my Twin had developed hydrocephaly when she was a toddler with no other problems then or now, other than vomiting when the pressure becomes too much if a shunt/s breaks down.
 
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