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To: Future Snake Eater
Flicker fits can be triggered while driving if the road divider is posts and not the solid concrete. That's one of the reasons they started doing away with post dividers and went to solid concrete in newer dividers...it can trigger a seizure in susceptible people... We had a patient in the hospital that had a sign on her bed, Do not jar bed.....it would send her into seizure activity. But she also said she knew when a seizure was coming on as she got an aura...some epilepics know when a seizure is coming on by seeing lights or other things that warn them....for others there is no warning...
44 posted on 11/24/2011 4:08:56 PM PST by goat granny
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To: goat granny
Flicker fits can be triggered while driving if the road divider is posts and not the solid concrete. That's one of the reasons they started doing away with post dividers and went to solid concrete in newer dividers...it can trigger a seizure in susceptible people... We had a patient in the hospital that had a sign on her bed, Do not jar bed.....it would send her into seizure activity. But she also said she knew when a seizure was coming on as she got an aura...some epilepics know when a seizure is coming on by seeing lights or other things that warn them....for others there is no warning...

You also don't have to be an epilieptic to have seizures from light or movie/TV strobing and/or auditory stimulation. As well there are different types or kinds of seizures. I can go through an EEG just fine. No seizure activity was ever detected in the several I've took. Basically anything which overtaxes a persons sensory processing system can trigger seizures but the person may not realize what they are having. One such type is this which I've had about 17 years now

Stimulus-sensitive myoclonus is triggered by a variety of external events, including noise, movement, and light. Surprise may increase the sensitivity of the individual.

An EEG won't trigger it but a movie like say Lion King can. I don't go too the movies LOL. Driving through a wooded area in the winter where light flickers between the trees to the eyes or on the pavment can trigger it. Certain tones like a back up alarm, fire alarm, or classical music. Store PA's turned up too loud or with a prompt tone also can do it.

I just go into violent upper torso spams or seizures. Each seizure last a few seconds and as many as several a minute in a bad attack. No passing out though nor any feeling I'm going too. It is limited in my case to specific plces only including shoulders, upper back, and neck. But if I don't stop the seizures I can go into a kind of a brain fog of where am I. how did I get here, where was I going, loss of time, etc. It can also easilly be misdiagnosed as Panic attacts. Been there done that for several years.

73 posted on 11/26/2011 12:21:58 AM PST by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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