Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 200 Location: Australia
Has Anyone Here Ever Had Seizures From Anxiety And Stress.? Posted: 04-27-04 14:22pm
Hi my name is sam
i am 21 yrs old I live in sydney and I
have begun having seizures. I dont know
whats making me have the seizures, wether
its an anxiety. I have seen a neurologist
and had tests and everything always comes
back normal. But I have recently had a
few huge seizures that last 20 minutes. I
am on anti convulsant medications, they
are working to a great extent. I am just
getting scared and very worried. I dont
now what is happening to me. The doctors
are saying that I am epileptic but I was
just wondering if anyone here suffers the
same as I do
thankyou sam
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MellyUK20
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Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 3 Location: UK
Hi Sam Posted: 07-06-04 11:48am
Firstly, i'm so sorry for what you are
going thru right now. I don't think i'd
cope very well trying to live with
seizures.
In answer to your question, anxiety and
stress have not been proven in anyway to
cause seizures, so I guess you have been
epileptic all along but it has been lying
dormant in your system.
I'm glad the medication is working for
you, stay strong!
Hope this helps,
melly
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Tigerlilyz
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 8
Hi Sam Posted: 07-30-04 13:57pm
I 'm sorry to hear you are going through
all this. I also read your other thread.
I just want to let you know you arn't
completely alone. I have epilepsy as well
as anxiety/ panic issues. My epilepsy is
controlled by medication but it is the
cause of alot of anxiety for me. I don't
believe anxiety causes seizures but stress
and or anxiety could be a trigger for
seizures. Anyone can have a seizure it's
just that for people with epilepsy their
seizure threshold is lowered, so it takes
less to trigger one. I would recommend to
you to get a really good doctor and
neurologist who is understanding and
knowledgable about epilepsy. Most doctors
I have seen don't know anything about
epilepsy. It is so different for
everyone. My last 2 eggs showed no signs
of epileptic activity and that is fairly
common, but doesn't mean anything. Some
anti covulsants can cause anxiety as well
as the fear of having a seizure. Take
care of yourself and find out everything
about your condition as you can regarding
your triggers, warning signs, effective
stress management. I hope everything
works out for you sam.
Take a look at the epilepsy board there is
alot of info there too.
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Tigerlilyz
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Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 8
Posted: 07-30-04 14:15pm
Hey sam I just relized you've been there.
Anyway I hope your doing okay.
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nelsonj
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Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 1
Seizures And Stress Posted: 08-20-04 13:07pm
My 11 year old son had his first seizure
when he was 6 1/2. He has only had 5 or
6, but they have always been in response
to anxiety. He was diagnosed as
epileptic after the 3rd one and we tried a
variety of anti-convulsants but they all
had too many negative side effects on him,
so I took him off them after a year or so.
He has only had one seizure since - and
it was during a panic attack. I'm sorry
to hear about all you are going through,
but thank you for sharing so I know i'm
not the crazy one. No one (drs.) seems
to believe me when I tell them the
seizures are panic/anxiety induced and we
just need to teach him how to deal with
anxiety - not put him on drugs.
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Nikos Gallis
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Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 35 Location: Pireu
Seizures And Panick Attacks Are Related And Very Serious Posted: 09-16-04 07:24am
Seizures and panick attacks are definately
related and they share
the same vascular causes when the arteries
loose their normal pulse.
There is no anxiety or cognitive
dysfunction that can create these
symptoms and the doctors already know
that.
Your cognitive functioning or
dysfunctioning cannot influence is a
significant way your vital life signs and
visceral bodily functions (eg.
Breathing, hunger, sexual functioning and
desire, heart functioning).
In fact, patients can stay in a coma
(therefore without any cognitive
functioning) and their body remains
functional.
What you are experiencing is caused by
heart damage, lung damage
and last but not least systemic arterial
damage.
You were born with an extreme congenital
heart and arterial defects
(possible missing arteries and definately
with abnormal arteries).
This congenital arterial defects turned
into "endothelial dysfunction"
when the arteries don't pulsate normal
anymore, cannot provide
normal tissue and organ oxygenation and
therefore your heart got
ischemic, and it almost lost an important
valve (for which it tries to
compensate with that rapid heart beats).
There is nothing to be done at this stage
of the disease.
The bad news is that you are dying but not
fast enough. And because
the way the doctors, lawyers and media
work, nobody will acknowledge
that you have a catastrophic problem, and
they will claim that it's
anxiety, a bio-chemical imbalance in your
brain or a mental illness so that
they will be able to commit you into a
psychiatric hospital and hide your
torture that you experience.
Nobody can help you and the doctors won't
do anything to ease up
your death, but to the contrary. They
will prolong your life as much
as possible even if that means enourmous
torture on you.. This is how
they understand their hippocratic oath and
they don't want to
acknowledge that the way you die (in a
dignified way) is much more
important than the lenght of your life (or
death at this moment).
I would suggest you to tell your story to
the local radio talk shows and
media so that these issues get open to the
public. As of now, there
is much of tabu in the medical, law and
media communities.
Also, ask these questions that I am posing
to you in as many health
forums as possible so that all the so
called "anxiety" patients will be
warned that their deaths are dreadful.
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