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@yahoogroup
Sent: Wed, December 30, 2009 11:42:17 AM
Subject: [epilepsy] Re: Triggers
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
--- 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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