Nutrition Health Chat: Tuesday, Dec. 8th, 5-6 PM Eastern. Learn how vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients affect your health. Free live Q&A. Join us!
Member Comments are provided by individuals and reflect their personal opinions only. Under NO circumstances should you act on any advice or opinion posted in this forum. ALWAYS check with your personal physician before taking any action regarding your health! MedHelp International and our partners, sponsors and affiliates have no obligation to monitor any comments posted on this site, or the content and/or accuracy of such exchanges. MedHelp International does not endorse the views of any user.
Hello all.
I have a father in South Korea who is 74 years old. Recently he had "seizures" while he was working in the filed. My father is in a hospital and receving some kind of medication treatment. When I talk to my mother, she said, she was told by doctors that my father's seizures are stress related. My father does not have any history of seizure disordersAdjustment disorder Anorexia nervosa Asperger syndrome Autism Autoimmune disorders Bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder Bleeding disorders Borderline personality disorder Bulimia Chronic motor tic disorder and never had seizures in the past. Additionally, according to my mother, father suffers from some kind of short-term memoryMemory loss Mental status tests lost as well after he had mutiple seizures(about 5 to 6) in the last past 20 days. According to my mother, the doctors had necessary tests done and had ruled out strocks and tumors. My question is, is there such thing as stress induced seizures in a late adulthood?
There are stress induced seizures called PNES and I had never heard of them and am trying to research them now. My daughter 27 yrs old is going thru this right now in the hospital. Of course she has been through alot of stress but I have never in my life heard of an stress induced seizure. I would like to find more medical information about this if anyone has anything that would be helpful. She went into the hospital Tues. night with a Grand Mal seizure and has been having them almost continously since. She has lost use of her left arm and has lost any memoryMemory loss Mental status tests of the past couple of days. Things just don't add up. She is having these seizures for a reason and I just don't buy is being totally stress.