anybody any info about psyhogenic seizures?

Answer 1

With that type of seizure even though the person truly is having a seizure reaction, the electrical misfires in the brain that cause seizures does not occur. Seizure medication is aimed at stopping those misfires which is why meds don`t help psyhogenic seizures at all. No medical intervention is necessary unless the person gets injured falling or hitting their head or whatever. When a person is seizing no matter why, the most important thing to do is to prevent injury from objects around them. Make sure nothing falls on them and protect their head from harm. Once a diagnosis of this type of seizure is made, unexplainably most of the seizures may stop. Even though it does not mean a person is pschologically unsound, a psychiatrist may be useful but they need to have special training in this area to be of much help. My husband suffered with seizures almost all his life, even to the point of being in intensive care on a respirator cause they were afraid for his life. After being steered finally to an epilepsy clinic and being evaluated for two weeks inpatient the correct dx was made. Since then(a year ago) he has only had two seizures whereas before it was at least every week. The docs had him on so much meds at on point I couldn`t even leave him to go to work he was so drugged up. At first he was upset with the term psyhogenic cause he thought people(his family mostly) would think he had been faking his seizures which he was not. Some people get tension headaches. Others get autioammone illnesses. Psyhogenic seizures is just another way the body can react to things.I stress it is not in the persons control. The University of Maryland in Baltimore Maryland is where he went(the epilepsy unit) and they had some very helpful info. Good luck to you.

Answer 2

Try the website below it should give you a little bit of information on this