aspergers and seizures

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I have Neocortical Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. I don't take medication.

Although I haven't been to a doctor to diagnose it yet, I do think I have a form of epilepsy called Myoclonus. Myoclonus consists of a certain type of seizures that take their form in small, second-or-two-long jerks. I've read that people can normally have them when they get tired and their body begins to shut itself down, but people with Myoclonus have them more often. Anyways, I also dream about having seizures during my sleep every once in awhile, so I wouldn't doubt that I've been having seizures during my sleep.

I don't get seisures, but they run in my family. I do get sick from flickering lights.

My son Aaron is 8, he sratrted having these seizures in his sleep just before he turned 5, he has 5 or 6 a year. It starts with him wetting the bed and then vomiting and then being unresponsive for a period of time. It makes him very tired and nausiated for a few hours after. The doctor diagnosed it with Benigne Rolandic Epilepsy, He thinks he will grow out of them. I sure hope so. He is also Aspergers. Very High functioning. They can be very scary in the middle of the night for him and for us(his parents).

I had them when I was young and maybe 5 or 6 since I became an adult. When I was a kid I had all sorts tests done which turned up nothing. All the times I remember were accompanied with a visual and aural aura then I lost all muscle tone turning to jelly on the floor. They usually lasted ten to twenty minutes with a nausea that lasted all day after

So an aura is a forewarning of a seizure? I've heard of auras in reference to migraines. I've read the migraines are actually a form of a seizure and also there is some kind of link between the two and strokes also.

Flickering lights have given me bad migraines. I remember riding in the car on a long windy mountainous road and the sunlight flickering as we past one tree after another gave me a horrid migraine that lasted for hours.

Hey parts it is tnteresting what you said about your body turning to jelly my son gets that and he vomits all day after an early morning seizure always occurred in his sleep though snd it lasted lot longer than 10 to 20 seconds more like 10 to 20 minutes. Did you out grow them. diana

Computer games that use the Half-Life 2 engine give me nausia.

I noticed Aspartame gives me migraines.

MishLuvsHer2Boys, I have Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, too. I have since I was a toddler. Or an infant. I can't remember. Mine can't, as yet, bet controlled completely with medication.

You know who else had TLE? Lewis Carroll, Vincent Van Gough, Dostoevsky. Lots of talented people.

DaisyDiana, my daughter has Benign Rolandic Epilepsy, too. I suspect that she has Aspergers. I am debating whether to get a diagnosis. My mom says she'll get stuck in special ed. In December my daughter was 2 years without a generalized seizure! (That's a grand mal.) She's nine and a half now. So, have hope. Most kids with BRE, something like 95%, will not have seizures as adults.

If either of you wants to talk to me some more about epilepsy, or about having a kid with epilepsy, feel free. You can also get a lot of moral support in the parents' forum at www.efa.org.