Wednesday, December 30, 2009

[epilepsy] Re: Triggers

 

Hey Laura --
I will look for it. I think originally I googled or dogpiled "water causing seizures" and came up with it that way. It's been a while though, so who knows if it's still floating out there. They say once in cyberspace, always in cyberspace.....
Michelle

--- In epilepsy@yahoogroups.com, Laura Gresham <greshamlaura@...> wrote:
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> Do you happen to have a copy of this study?  I have often wondered the SAME thing about my son! Laura
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> From: mlauchner <oldstuff4me@...>
> To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wed, December 30, 2009 11:42:17 AM
> Subject: [epilepsy] Re: Triggers
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> A warmish shower (or any kind for that matter) is a guaranteed trigger for my son Aaron. But so is water in general. Baths and swimming cause them too. Some time ago I read a study out of Brazil about water and seizures. When I asked the doc at Barrow about it, he pretty much just "patted" me on the head and said he hadn't heard of that. My son now sees a doc at Mayo.
> Michelle
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> --- In epilepsy@yahoogroup s.com, Jason <tiscione@ .> wrote:
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> > I've had warm showers trigger them. Running warm water across your scalp
> > seems to be just asking for it. But what are you supposed to do, take cold
> > showers or not wash your hair? A couple years ago I found myself naked on
> > the floor in the shower stall at work with six people looking at me like I'd
> > just grown a new head off my neck. That was after a five-mile bike trip
> > (exhaustion after exercise seems to invite them too).
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> > Come to think of it the same thing happened in my freshman year at college-
> > I had a seizure in the shower of the dorm and I remember being led naked on
> > an ambulance stretcher out through the hallway with a long line of horrified
> > faces staring at me.
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> > Remember that story in the news about 14 years ago where a woman had
> > seizures triggered whenever she heard the voice of Mary Hartman on
> > Entertainment Tonight? That's how specific a trigger can be. The only thing
> > not surprising about that story is that it was Mary Hartman on Entertainment
> > Tonight, instead of someone else. Of course the creeps on that show thought
> > it was funny as hell.
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> > Jason
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> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Tristin Seagraves <tristinspike26@ ...
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> > > Hi Jennifer,
> > > I've had temporal lobe epilepsy all my life, and I have partial,
> > > complex partial, and tonic clonic seizures. I remember what it is like to
> > > have epilepsy as a teenager. It's tough! The sound of the water running
> > > could be a trigger. Does he have seizures while in the shower too? I don't
> > > know what your son's seizures are like, and I'm trying not to be
> > > presumptuous but openly speaking, he is a teenager. Maybe it's just that he
> > > knows he can get out of doing dishes, if he has a seizure. Kids will be
> > > kids. Just a guess.
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> > > I wish you both the best,
> > > Tristin Seagraves
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> > > --- On Tue, 12/29/09, Jennifer Richardson <academyofthepossib le@>
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> > > From: Jennifer Richardson <academyofthepossib le@>
> > > Subject: [epilepsy] Triggers
> > > To: epilepsy@yahoogroup s.com
> > > Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 3:31 PM
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> > > My son is 13 and has mixed seizures. He seems to have more seizures when he
> > > is washing the dishes. Is this a trigger? Is this common?
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> > > Thanks.
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