night seizures

[SBB37]

Hi, about a year and a half ago I had my first seizure, I have now had a total of three (about six months apart.)I am on medication and each have occurred while I was sleeping in the early hours of the morning. Each have also occurred after an extremely stressful event. Is there a correlation between stress and seizures AND...are there articles written on different types of seizures, in particular seizures that occur mainly at night.

thanks

[msmay]

I was diagnosed with epilepsy about 5 years ago.  Every seizure I have ever had except for one has happened in or around sleep.  I was researching this myself and found the following:

http://www.healthology.net/epilepsy/video1968.htm?pg=1

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

Stress is definitely related to seizures. Stress is considered to be a trigger.

I have searched in google, and have found this useful link. Please post further, if you have some more queries.

http://www.e-epilepsy.org.uk/pages/articles/show_article.cfm?id=89

The following article explores the origin of sleep related seizures in frontal lobe.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16331400?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlusDrugs1

Regards