I had a traumatic brain injury in 2019 the first hit was to my left forehead. I started having seizures in my sleep in March of 2022. It always starts with my heart rate falling below 30 bpm. I know this because my watch alerts my Caregiver when this happens. By the time they get to my room they say I am seizing. But the wonderful er doc at the bandaid hospital here says I have something called pnes or something because I didn't respond to Keppra.
Have you heard of any cases of SUDEP when there is someone in the room while the sleeping person is having a seizure? Does SUDEP tend to primarily happen to those who sleep alone?
I don’t get seizures to often every few months or so but my most recent seizures have been at night and I bit my tongue and pissed the bed. This is the first time they started to happen at night. How do I know what type of epilepsy I have?
Is it common to remeber the seizures during the night? I have problem with this.
1. I am waking up every night being fully awake, my heart is raising and im saying 2-3 words. I often remeber theese events. 2. I have had 3 grand mal seizures during my sleep, im waking up from deep sleep, feeling I will have a seizure and it starts. I then black out and wakes up around 10-20 minutes after and I am completley disoriented. 3. During the daytime I get theese "attacks" where im getting stronger heartbeat, thinking negative about my self, feels like everybody is watching me. I have no idea what this is but it is affecting my life completely.
Any idea what I can be suffering from? I have been to the doctors several times and I will be under an EEG soon
Hi doctor, I have generalised tonic colonic seizures, problem is I used to have my seizures in morning now mostly at night, but I what I don't understand is at certain time of day around 6 – 9pm I fell auras every single day at that time. I take my medication around 8pm. I used to take it around 11pm & my life was great now I can't get past 8pm without taking my medication or a crave of medication will occur. I currently am on epilim, tegretol & small dose of keppra twice a day.
Hi doctor I usually get seizures specially when i will be relaxed after hardwork or before sleep or mid night. Even I take leviteracetam2g per day with lacosam 200mg per day with frisium 20mg night please advice me some precautions. I just wanna get rid of this. Please doctor..
I also had seizure for almost 16 years now and I haven't seen a neurologist even once because I have no money to pay for check ups and medications😔 I don't know what kind of seizure is this, but it only attacked on night time just after I fell asleep, which is I am thankful because atleast it wouldn't cause me to harm myself, just like any other person with seizures that just fell suddenly without signs/ warnings. I only remember having one attacked on day time because I fell asleep after I ate my lunch. I know that my seizure will attack at night because I have signs. It would start in the morning after I woke up. I feel uneasy, not able to breath well, fast heart beat, I feel like their is something electricity (or I don't know how to describe that feeling) coming from my right ring finger, and then suddenly running through my vein up to my arm, and then up to my right brain, and then their you go, it's like someone is hammering on my brain really hard, it will last for about a minute or 2, but it wouldn't make me out of consciousness. I just feel uncomfortable and sleepy the whole day, with fear and assurance that it will surely attacked again during the night just after I feel asleep. During the night, I really wanted to cry, to scream😢 begging that I hope it won't attack again😢 I haven't seen myself having a seizure because I don't want to😢 I just feel pity for myself😢 during the seizure, the last thing that I will remember after I fell out of consciousness is that, I want to shout begging for help from someone, but I cannot open my mouth anymore😢 I feel like my body is braided and I cannot breath😭 which is so hard😭 and then after I came back to my consciousness, I was their, not on my mind, wet because of peeing on my pajamas which is really embarassing, my mother are already their crying asking me what are happening to me😢 which makes me even more sad because I don't want her to worry about me😢 it would repeat 1 to 3 times every attack. The last attack that I remembered was when January 2021, and I haven't been experience after that, which I thought that I am already free from that illness, but I was wrong, because after almost nearly 2 years, it attacked me again last night of December 6😢😢😢 I then feel dejavu day after the attack, body and muscle aches, bitten my tounge and no energy at all. I just want to sleep the whole day. I hope you can help me if what kind of seizure is this sir and what triggers why it attacked again, and what to avoid. We don't have epileptic record on our family😢 i was the only one and it made me feel weird and lost😢😢😢
I would like to thank #DrObulor for all the time he had to put into his work, I'm unable to stop thinking of how I could continue living with epilepsy however what's destined to be will be. I kept praying and also receiving marital support and energy and my prayers were answered through Dr Obulor he's just the better doctor and I recommend him💕….
I would like to thank #DrObulor for all the time he had to put into his work, I'm unable to stop thinking of how I could continue living with epilepsy however what's destined to be will be. I kept praying and also receiving marital support and energy and my prayers were answered through Dr Obulor he's just the better doctor and I recommend him💕….
Dr. Omar I've been having night time seizures since I was 36 they have been going on now for about 7yr can these be misdiagnosed for PNES? When I have them I have the bicycle movement, my arms stuffing up, I try biting my tongue, My heart rate even rises. This has been told to me by my mother, son and husband, but my Neurologist is wanting to still diagnose as pnes, when I have these night seizures it takes me about 2 days to fully recover from having these. Can you please help me understand the difference between frontal lobe and pnes seizures
My dad had a stroke, and sometimes while we were all sleeping he would suddenly growl and shake at the same time as his eyes were closed, because he couldn't control his body so much that his teeth would bleed. Mom and I are very panicked and we don't know what to do but it doesn't happen often
Can anxiety cause nocturnal seizures? I’ve recently had an uptick in my anxiety levels and my boyfriend said i’ve started shaking in my sleep recently. Not a severe shake but i go stiff and shake like im “shivering”. not sure if i need to see a neurologist or not.
I was diagnosed with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy a few months ago. Unfortunately my neurologist is not as informative as you. Wish I could find one like you in AZ or NM. Very informative thank you! The medications I was on made my personality change and I was super aggressive- I didn’t recognize myself.
Can i adjust my bedtime 3 or 4 hours late. I am trying to travel to Cyprus for further studies. Can you please give me some tips and advice. For my situation.
Dr. I'm experiencing seizures both in day nd ngt. It interrupt my daily sleep. I hv undergone sleep study mri scan too. Now I'm under medication. Without pills I can't get enough sleep. Plz suggest me how can I come out of this. I dnt hv hereditary history
I got diagnosed epilepsy a few months ago 🤕 after my brain 🧠🤯 doctor 👨⚕️ gave me a brain tumor surgery and I passed on my surgery but think God 🙏🏿💯 they brought me back to life now I have grand mal sezuire 😔 I'm new to these sezuire 😔 but I'm trying to deal with it👼🏿 📝💯I Lost my vision 👓it a hard task for me but no reason for me to give up I'm only 24 I'm blessed to be alive 🧘🏿♂️💯 and my brain doctor prescribe me with the wrong sezuire medicine 😪 at first I was allergy to it the medicine 💊was killing me now my doctor 🏥 got me on some new night time epilepsy sezuire medicine.😔
I was diagnosed with nocturnal epilepsy 3months ago ,I'm 55yrs old . I'm on epillum 200 mg BD. Ihaavent had any major episodes since . But still experience mild to moderate episodes a few times a week . Apparently I've been undiagnosed for 4decades . I remember as a child getting up in the morning and unable to speak coherently. My mother thought I was a bed wetter because on many occasions I would get up with my bed wet .
Hi guys, hello Dr. Omar. My first seizure was when I was 16. I remember it like it was yesterday. It came after a hard night partying with friends, lots of alcohol and cigarettes. I did not mind, I thought it was a one-time nightmare. Time flew and after one night playing "Max Payne", drinking coca-cola and red bull to make it through the night I went to sleep. After 3 hours of sleep I woke up and in about 5 minutes I had a violent seizure. My parents rushed me to the hospital. I made all the investigations, doctors tried to trigger a seizure putting a lot of shiny, strange lights intro my eyes, they scanned my brain for tumors, they could not find anything. Years passed, I learned that alcohol and cigarettes are very bad for me. For almost two years I went to sleep after taking "dormicum", I don't know how, or why but in this period I had no seizures. Doctors told me that taken for a long period sleeping pills could be harmful so I stopped taking "dormicum". After a while…yeah…you guessed, they came back. When seizures started to get regular, like at least one/month I searched for a doctor. I am on "Lamictal", twice a day, 100 MG in the morning and 200mg before sleep. Worked perfect for like 7 months till 3 days ago 🙁 when I had a brutal seizure again. Tongue bitten, I feel my muscles tired, like I ran a marathon. I am going back to my doctor on the 27-th, hopefully he can give me some good news, maybe a dosage increase for my pills. As it was Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) from the start, I read that this type of epilepsy will fade away in my late 30-s, or around me getting 40…Is that possible?(I am 36 now) Do I have maybe a slight chance to get back to a normal life? I also read about sudden death and stuff like this is that true? Can my brain simply stop during a seizure? Damn! Sometimes, even if I am a man…i get so, so scared of what could happen! Take care guys! Thank you Doctor for all your work, all these vids been very helpful.
I have been having chronical "sleep paralysis" for like 3 or 4 years by now, or so that's what I think. Lately I've been thinking that it might be seizures because my little sister has also epilepsy and most of the times happens when she. Is sleeping. So the thing is that when the "sleep paralysis" kicks in I just can feel my jaw rigid and going to the left, my body completely tense and my legs bicycling, when I wake up o just feel completely tired I can hardly stay awake, feel like my body is not responding and I try to stay awake but I just can't and mostly fall sleep right away to only have that same thing happen to me again (all of this happen while semi conscious). So I don't know if these could be symptoms of nocturnal epilepsy.
I've been struggling with this for years and it really is hurting my life and I just want it to stop, but I don't know what is happening to me when I sleep. I don't see people having "chronic sleep paralysis". This happens to me between two and three time in a week, and that's when I have a good week. Sometime it happens every single day
Like 7 years ago I suffered a severe head injury. Two years later I went to make some studies of my brain because my psychiatrist asked to do them, they told me I had a cerebral irritation and explained to me that that was kind of like epilepsy but not triggering the seizure. By the next year is when the things I described started to happen to me.
Maybe I'm just overthinking it. But I remember my sis having a seizure and mostly having her entire body rigid and her feeling so tired she couldn't stay awake at all.
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I had a traumatic brain injury in 2019 the first hit was to my left forehead. I started having seizures in my sleep in March of 2022. It always starts with my heart rate falling below 30 bpm. I know this because my watch alerts my Caregiver when this happens. By the time they get to my room they say I am seizing. But the wonderful er doc at the bandaid hospital here says I have something called pnes or something because I didn't respond to Keppra.
Have you heard of any cases of SUDEP when there is someone in the room while the sleeping person is having a seizure? Does SUDEP tend to primarily happen to those who sleep alone?
I don’t get seizures to often every few months or so but my most recent seizures have been at night and I bit my tongue and pissed the bed. This is the first time they started to happen at night. How do I know what type of epilepsy I have?
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You are amazing my younger brother is going through this problem
Is it common to remeber the seizures during the night? I have problem with this.
1. I am waking up every night being fully awake, my heart is raising and im saying 2-3 words. I often remeber theese events.
2. I have had 3 grand mal seizures during my sleep, im waking up from deep sleep, feeling I will have a seizure and it starts. I then black out and wakes up around 10-20 minutes after and I am completley disoriented.
3. During the daytime I get theese "attacks" where im getting stronger heartbeat, thinking negative about my self, feels like everybody is watching me. I have no idea what this is but it is affecting my life completely.
Any idea what I can be suffering from? I have been to the doctors several times and I will be under an EEG soon
I have various different types of seizures including nocturnal and I liken it to running a marathon upon waking. Ie. sore muscles
My son has this type of seizure nocturnal for 1yr what can I do?
I have them and I dont care lol I hate that over 90% of medications that are not natural cause you long term conditions and or side effects.
Hi doctor, I have generalised tonic colonic seizures, problem is I used to have my seizures in morning now mostly at night, but I what I don't understand is at certain time of day around 6 – 9pm I fell auras every single day at that time. I take my medication around 8pm. I used to take it around 11pm & my life was great now I can't get past 8pm without taking my medication or a crave of medication will occur. I currently am on epilim, tegretol & small dose of keppra twice a day.
Hi doctor I usually get seizures specially when i will be relaxed after hardwork or before sleep or mid night. Even I take leviteracetam2g per day with lacosam 200mg per day with frisium 20mg night please advice me some precautions. I just wanna get rid of this. Please doctor..
Is there a connection to sleep paralysis?
I also had seizure for almost 16 years now and I haven't seen a neurologist even once because I have no money to pay for check ups and medications😔 I don't know what kind of seizure is this, but it only attacked on night time just after I fell asleep, which is I am thankful because atleast it wouldn't cause me to harm myself, just like any other person with seizures that just fell suddenly without signs/ warnings. I only remember having one attacked on day time because I fell asleep after I ate my lunch. I know that my seizure will attack at night because I have signs. It would start in the morning after I woke up. I feel uneasy, not able to breath well, fast heart beat, I feel like their is something electricity (or I don't know how to describe that feeling) coming from my right ring finger, and then suddenly running through my vein up to my arm, and then up to my right brain, and then their you go, it's like someone is hammering on my brain really hard, it will last for about a minute or 2, but it wouldn't make me out of consciousness. I just feel uncomfortable and sleepy the whole day, with fear and assurance that it will surely attacked again during the night just after I feel asleep. During the night, I really wanted to cry, to scream😢 begging that I hope it won't attack again😢 I haven't seen myself having a seizure because I don't want to😢 I just feel pity for myself😢 during the seizure, the last thing that I will remember after I fell out of consciousness is that, I want to shout begging for help from someone, but I cannot open my mouth anymore😢 I feel like my body is braided and I cannot breath😭 which is so hard😭 and then after I came back to my consciousness, I was their, not on my mind, wet because of peeing on my pajamas which is really embarassing, my mother are already their crying asking me what are happening to me😢 which makes me even more sad because I don't want her to worry about me😢 it would repeat 1 to 3 times every attack. The last attack that I remembered was when January 2021, and I haven't been experience after that, which I thought that I am already free from that illness, but I was wrong, because after almost nearly 2 years, it attacked me again last night of December 6😢😢😢 I then feel dejavu day after the attack, body and muscle aches, bitten my tounge and no energy at all. I just want to sleep the whole day. I hope you can help me if what kind of seizure is this sir and what triggers why it attacked again, and what to avoid. We don't have epileptic record on our family😢 i was the only one and it made me feel weird and lost😢😢😢
How can a person identify the difference between sleep apnea or a night seizure?
I would like to thank #DrObulor for all the time he had to put into his work, I'm unable to stop thinking of how I could continue living with epilepsy however what's destined to be will be. I kept praying and also receiving marital support and energy and my prayers were answered through Dr Obulor he's just the better doctor and I recommend him💕….
I would like to thank #DrObulor for all the time he had to put into his work, I'm unable to stop thinking of how I could continue living with epilepsy however what's destined to be will be. I kept praying and also receiving marital support and energy and my prayers were answered through Dr Obulor he's just the better doctor and I recommend him💕….
Dr. Omar I've been having night time seizures since I was 36 they have been going on now for about 7yr can these be misdiagnosed for PNES? When I have them I have the bicycle movement, my arms stuffing up, I try biting my tongue, My heart rate even rises. This has been told to me by my mother, son and husband, but my Neurologist is wanting to still diagnose as pnes, when I have these night seizures it takes me about 2 days to fully recover from having these. Can you please help me understand the difference between frontal lobe and pnes seizures
My dad had a stroke, and sometimes while we were all sleeping he would suddenly growl and shake at the same time as his eyes were closed, because he couldn't control his body so much that his teeth would bleed. Mom and I are very panicked and we don't know what to do but it doesn't happen often
Can anxiety cause nocturnal seizures? I’ve recently had an uptick in my anxiety levels and my boyfriend said i’ve started shaking in my sleep recently. Not a severe shake but i go stiff and shake like im “shivering”. not sure if i need to see a neurologist or not.
Dr.Omar please can you share your mail ID. I will share my lab reports and meditations that I have used. I experienced a lot side effects.
Is there a permanent cure for Nocturnal Seizures? I am experiencing Seizures only at night time.
I was diagnosed with nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy a few months ago. Unfortunately my neurologist is not as informative as you. Wish I could find one like you in AZ or NM. Very informative thank you! The medications I was on made my personality change and I was super aggressive- I didn’t recognize myself.
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Can i adjust my bedtime 3 or 4 hours late.
I am trying to travel to Cyprus for further studies. Can you please give me some tips and advice. For my situation.
Dr. I'm experiencing seizures both in day nd ngt. It interrupt my daily sleep. I hv undergone sleep study mri scan too. Now I'm under medication. Without pills I can't get enough sleep. Plz suggest me how can I come out of this. I dnt hv hereditary history
I got diagnosed epilepsy a few months ago 🤕 after my brain 🧠🤯 doctor 👨⚕️ gave me a brain tumor surgery and I passed on my surgery but think God 🙏🏿💯 they brought me back to life now I have grand mal sezuire 😔 I'm new to these sezuire 😔 but I'm trying to deal with it👼🏿 📝💯I Lost my vision 👓it a hard task for me but no reason for me to give up I'm only 24 I'm blessed to be alive 🧘🏿♂️💯 and my brain doctor prescribe me with the wrong sezuire medicine 😪 at first I was allergy to it the medicine 💊was killing me now my doctor 🏥 got me on some new night time epilepsy sezuire medicine.😔
I was diagnosed with nocturnal epilepsy 3months ago ,I'm 55yrs old . I'm on epillum 200 mg BD. Ihaavent had any major episodes since . But still experience mild to moderate episodes a few times a week . Apparently I've been undiagnosed for 4decades . I remember as a child getting up in the morning and unable to speak coherently. My mother thought I was a bed wetter because on many occasions I would get up with my bed wet .
Hi guys, hello Dr. Omar. My first seizure was when I was 16. I remember it like it was yesterday. It came after a hard night partying with friends, lots of alcohol and cigarettes. I did not mind, I thought it was a one-time nightmare. Time flew and after one night playing "Max Payne", drinking coca-cola and red bull to make it through the night I went to sleep. After 3 hours of sleep I woke up and in about 5 minutes I had a violent seizure. My parents rushed me to the hospital. I made all the investigations, doctors tried to trigger a seizure putting a lot of shiny, strange lights intro my eyes, they scanned my brain for tumors, they could not find anything. Years passed, I learned that alcohol and cigarettes are very bad for me. For almost two years I went to sleep after taking "dormicum", I don't know how, or why but in this period I had no seizures. Doctors told me that taken for a long period sleeping pills could be harmful so I stopped taking "dormicum". After a while…yeah…you guessed, they came back. When seizures started to get regular, like at least one/month I searched for a doctor. I am on "Lamictal", twice a day, 100 MG in the morning and 200mg before sleep. Worked perfect for like 7 months till 3 days ago 🙁 when I had a brutal seizure again. Tongue bitten, I feel my muscles tired, like I ran a marathon. I am going back to my doctor on the 27-th, hopefully he can give me some good news, maybe a dosage increase for my pills. As it was Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) from the start, I read that this type of epilepsy will fade away in my late 30-s, or around me getting 40…Is that possible?(I am 36 now) Do I have maybe a slight chance to get back to a normal life? I also read about sudden death and stuff like this is that true? Can my brain simply stop during a seizure? Damn! Sometimes, even if I am a man…i get so, so scared of what could happen! Take care guys! Thank you Doctor for all your work, all these vids been very helpful.
I have been having chronical "sleep paralysis" for like 3 or 4 years by now, or so that's what I think. Lately I've been thinking that it might be seizures because my little sister has also epilepsy and most of the times happens when she. Is sleeping. So the thing is that when the "sleep paralysis" kicks in I just can feel my jaw rigid and going to the left, my body completely tense and my legs bicycling, when I wake up o just feel completely tired I can hardly stay awake, feel like my body is not responding and I try to stay awake but I just can't and mostly fall sleep right away to only have that same thing happen to me again (all of this happen while semi conscious). So I don't know if these could be symptoms of nocturnal epilepsy.
I've been struggling with this for years and it really is hurting my life and I just want it to stop, but I don't know what is happening to me when I sleep. I don't see people having "chronic sleep paralysis". This happens to me between two and three time in a week, and that's when I have a good week. Sometime it happens every single day
Like 7 years ago I suffered a severe head injury. Two years later I went to make some studies of my brain because my psychiatrist asked to do them, they told me I had a cerebral irritation and explained to me that that was kind of like epilepsy but not triggering the seizure. By the next year is when the things I described started to happen to me.
Maybe I'm just overthinking it. But I remember my sis having a seizure and mostly having her entire body rigid and her feeling so tired she couldn't stay awake at all.
Dr,is Depakine (Valproate acid) good medication for noctural seizurs? And is posible to someone have seizur first time after wisdom tooth extraction?
I have this seizure I just mumbled even with my consiousness in night i cant control my mouth even if I try to control my mouth
My question is this:
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