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Fascinating but why not, light stimulation is well accepted. It seems odd to me that the article lists anti-seizure medication last among proposed management.

Fascinating but why not, light stimulation is well accepted. It seems odd to me that the article lists anti-seizure medication last among proposed management. That said, the absolute worst trigger I know of is stress relief. YES. You read that right. Some people have neurological conditions triggered by the relief of stress. Migrains and epilepsy, once you relax. What a hellish experience

booleandilemma 3y ago
What you wrote about stress relief is interesting. I wonder if that's a contributor to having a "Type A" personality - people needing to feel like they're in high gear all the time.
mistrial9 3y ago
in folk medicine that is known as a "healing crisis" .. you let the pressure off of some condition that your body has temporarily halted, and like draining a boil, all the yuck comes out. Oddly this has parallels in emotional therapy too. Modern strong pain-killers literally mask and prevent these internal system rebalancing, along with emotional flatline response. Humans are complex!
cormorrow 3y ago
My neuro is still trying to figure out why I sometimes have seizures when trying to fall asleep or when I become deeply relaxed. There's definitely something to dopamine dysfunction and epilepsy, so this music-seizure connection is interesting. Usually dopamine is neuroprotective though, for example in the case of tramadol induced seizures https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1091581817753607 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10915818177536...
- kevin42 3y ago
  Brains are so weird. I too have sleep related epilepsy. My seizures are always right on the edge of falling asleep or waking. As in, I know the exact moment I start to fall asleep or wake because the seizure starts with a snap (literally). Without medication it's 100% of the time. These days they call my type of seizures 'focal aware', but it can generalize to a full blown tonic clonic. Taking naps are impossible unless I pre-medicate myself, otherwise I'm going to have a seizure. It turns out the process of sleep is really complex. Lots of chemical and electrical things are happening, and it just happens to trigger some of my (TBI) damaged brain cells. Someday maybe we'll be able to map which specific neurons are damaged by how they are triggered in various forms of epilepsy.
  - cormorrow 3y ago
    Yeah, feels like I got hit with a lightning bolt in the chest and head while seeing a flash of light just as I start getting relaxed. I assumed it was a general type seizure since my body jerks with it (myoclonic?) but hadn't considered it could be focal. It used to only happen rarely when I was really stressed, but after Lyme and a couple concussions it started trending to an almost every night thing. Why must sleep be so complicated and necessary shakes fist

booleandilemma 3y ago

What you wrote about stress relief is interesting. I wonder if that's a contributor to having a "Type A" personality - people needing to feel like they're in high gear all the time.

mistrial9 3y ago

in folk medicine that is known as a "healing crisis" .. you let the pressure off of some condition that your body has temporarily halted, and like draining a boil, all the yuck comes out. Oddly this has parallels in emotional therapy too. Modern strong pain-killers literally mask and prevent these internal system rebalancing, along with emotional flatline response. Humans are complex!

cormorrow 3y ago

My neuro is still trying to figure out why I sometimes have seizures when trying to fall asleep or when I become deeply relaxed. There's definitely something to dopamine dysfunction and epilepsy, so this music-seizure connection is interesting. Usually dopamine is neuroprotective though, for example in the case of tramadol induced seizures https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1091581817753607 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10915818177536...

kevin42 3y ago
Brains are so weird. I too have sleep related epilepsy. My seizures are always right on the edge of falling asleep or waking. As in, I know the exact moment I start to fall asleep or wake because the seizure starts with a snap (literally). Without medication it's 100% of the time. These days they call my type of seizures 'focal aware', but it can generalize to a full blown tonic clonic. Taking naps are impossible unless I pre-medicate myself, otherwise I'm going to have a seizure. It turns out the process of sleep is really complex. Lots of chemical and electrical things are happening, and it just happens to trigger some of my (TBI) damaged brain cells. Someday maybe we'll be able to map which specific neurons are damaged by how they are triggered in various forms of epilepsy.
- cormorrow 3y ago
  Yeah, feels like I got hit with a lightning bolt in the chest and head while seeing a flash of light just as I start getting relaxed. I assumed it was a general type seizure since my body jerks with it (myoclonic?) but hadn't considered it could be focal. It used to only happen rarely when I was really stressed, but after Lyme and a couple concussions it started trending to an almost every night thing. Why must sleep be so complicated and necessary shakes fist