Hi,
I had a suspected tonic clonic fit/seizure a month or two ago on tramadol, then another whilst on oxycodone, when I was being treated with opiates for kidney pain. They happened whilst falling asleep and I woke up having bitten my tongue the first time. I was sent to neurology who wanted to be on the safe side and sent me for an EEG and an MRI. Both were normal, though they found slight abnormalities in my EEG, with slow waves in my temporal regions. They thought it was basically fine though. They are still investigating me for epilepsy and said if I had another episode, to let them know. A few nights ago, I sustained an injury and woke up with the bed covers strewn everywhere, acheing limbs, fingers bent into claws, exhaustion, etc. and have had a splitting headache yesterday and today.
I'm seeing the neurologist anyway on the 30th August but everyone is concerned that I might have epilepsy, especially as I am now on no medication that is known to ever cause seizures.
I've been on anticonvulsants in the past for psychiatric reasons, which stopped me having weird things at night, but I'm now not on them anymore.
My question is this: I have had weird things at night all my life every now and then. I wake up and seem to stumble round the room in intense paranoia and fear for a few minutes then go back to bed, then wake up with the bed things strewn everywhere. I've been told it's not psychiatric (I think in psychiatry it's called sleep terror disorder) and I found out from the person who did my EEG that they might be seizures but they've never been investigated. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about this? Oh the other thing is that when I was on Depakote, it completely cleared up these weird night experiences, then they started again once I came off it.
Thanks.
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