[Sammie]

My BF and I experienced something recently that has me concerned ,that he is chosing now to pretend did not happen. In the middle of the night in his sleep he screamed out a horrific wail, while still asleep and began to exhibit all the signs of a seizure- body tremors, flailing etc. He also had a throat full of phlegm and was choking on it. I rolled him on his side and held him there until his throat cleared and he became still. Then I watched him for about twenty minutes while he appeared to be asleep. He turned on the light shortly after that and was staring at me like he did not know me, (I assumed it was the fugue stage after a seizure). He looked at me and said "who the f are you and why are you in my bed?" He does not cuss so that in itself was alarming as well as the fact that he was reaching for his gun as he said it. I got him to listen to my voice and he calmed down and asked me to tell him my name. After a period of question and answers he got it all back and remembered every thing about us and our lives but not the seizure. His lip was shredded inside and he says that he has woken up twice before with injuries in his mouth but no one told him he was doing anything, wouldn't they have known if they were right there? If he did not yell out first they may have slept thru it but he did not accept that answer. He now refers to it, if at all as the night he had the nightmare and refuses to accept that he may have had a seizure.
DID he have a seizure?
Should I be concerned for his health?
How do you recommend I address this if at all? At this point it is not a topic of conversation unless he brings it up. He was so scared the next morning that this may mean it was a turn towards health challenges and that I would not want to deal with it. I have assured him that would not be the case so he has decided to ignore the event.
Any thoughts?

This post has been edited by Sammie: 23 January 2009 - 05:07 AM

[nomis]

Seizure, nightmare...who knows? If it continues he might like to get checked out medically.

[Illinois Boy]

After being in the hospital in 2005 for Ostiomyelits and receiving large amounts of antibiotics for it, I had some seizures......

Don't remember them but wife told me about them.... Never had any before or since......

Is he on any antibiotics?

Jim

[Quad65]

...and you might want to secure the weapon somewhere out of reach until you find out what's happening.

[Nickleblue]

epilepsy has varying degrees, My grandfather was epileptic and had violent fits where he would throw himself out of bed and into the wall often needing hospital treatment he would also forget people places etc anything from 10 mins till half a day after the fit.
My GF who is parplegic also is epileptic she has mild seizures where only her face "ticks" and her voice goes funny she has no memory problems.
It "sounds" to me like a seizure-i would get it checked out-but of course it has to be his call.
good luck.
Nickle.

[qbounce]

Did he JUST get released from the hospital? There's such a thing as "hospital dementia" where one forgets their long term whereabouts for a brief period of time. Where they are, who others are in relation to them, etc. It generally comes back very soon after being in a familiar setting, but pain meds may also help with the confusion.

Hopefully everythings back in order for him by now.

[Sammie]

No, but he does take viagra regularly for cath reasons and some kind of bladder antispasm med twice a day. No other meds.

Thank you to all of you who replied to my post. He has not been in the hospital nor has he seen a doc for over a year according to him. It has not occurred again, but when i am there the gun is moved to a closed drawer now. He also has his phone next to him now at night in case he feels like it may have happened again so he can get some help. He has asked me to just move forward unless it occurs again, so since it is not my body, that is what I have to do. Thanks very much again. S

[Emily74]

Make sure he tells his doc next time he sees his doc, so that the doctor can know to use caution in what drugs to prescribe certain drugs such as Flagyl or Tramadol.

[eyelookok2blindgurls]

It may be wise to have him checked out to see if had traumatic brain injury , as it is quite common although not often talked about for SCI surviors to have had a brain injury at the time of their accident , often this is overlooked because of the concern over the SCI , traumatic brain injury may sound bad to some but is not as bad as many people think and the affects of it are relatively easily controlled , it would pay to have it checked as if he does have one and it is not diagnosed there could be some very out of charactor or even dangerous behavior .
some forms of myoclonic epilepsy can also because by such an injury .
even if he hasn't got one I always think its much better to get it properly checked out to be on the safe side .