beman
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 Posted: 12/20/05 - 01:00 Post subject: temporal lobe epilepsy night seizures teeth grinding headach |
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I have a friend with epilepsy, and during this time, I know him I have heard for the first time anything about this disease. I had no idea there is something like this and still I cannot believe. His epilepsy occurs in temporal lobe of the brain, that what he told me. I also know that he complains about night seizures, teeth grinding and headaches all the time. I want to know if those are normal symptoms of epilepsy, and if you can tell me all symptoms that are reported.
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yeck
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| Posted: 12/24/05 - 19:21 Post subject: |
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Rapid eye movement (REM) and sleep behavior disorder (RBD) are symptoms that epilepsy causes. Those are characterized by intermittent loss of REM sleep–related atonia, with the appearance of elaborate motor activity associated with dream mentation. The behaviors in RBD as syndrome of epilepsy can include punching, kicking, leaping, running, talking, yelling, and any behavior that could occur during dream. Patients with terrifying hypnagogic hallucinations may note recurrent scary imagery just as they are falling asleep, and these events may be associated with screaming, and yelling. Some epilepsy syndromes feature activity exclusively or predominantly during sleeps and can be confused with other nocturnal events. These syndromes include autosomal-dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy, supplementary sensorimotor seizures, nocturnal paroxysmal dystonia, and benign epilepsy of childhood. This might occur with centrotemporal spikes, or Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, known as tonic seizures. Cessation of nighttime bruxing, or teeth grinding behavior was indicated by remediation of the pain associated with it. Some patients of temporal lobe epilepsy found breathing, yoga, and meditation to be helpful as well in managing their night seizure threshold and headaches.
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