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floridian
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Quote:| Here is my question. Does a seizure correlate to "head trauma"? |
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To a degree. Brain injury can lead to siezures. A friend of mine started having epilepsy shortly after falling out of a moving pickup truck and hitting his head.
I tried something like the mind machine you mention - no extreme side effects, no real change in conciousness that I could detect. On the other hand, blinking fluorescent lights or a cheap flickering monitor drive me up the wall. Shopping malls also sometimes affect me that way.
Head injury is also correlated with depression later in life.
Head injury could be a factor that predisposes someone to clusters, but this hasn't been well studied, and not sure what can be done after the injury is already done.
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Re: The Seizure Machine
« Reply #1 on: Mar 22nd, 2004, 5:58am » |
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Re: The Seizure Machine
« Reply #2 on: Mar 22nd, 2004, 10:27am » |
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I too tried that machine years ago and it was called the "Mind Machine. " Supposedly helped adjust circadian rhythms and transfer from one level of conciousness (alpha) to others. I imagine that if you've already got an underlying neurological disorder this would be a very effective trigger.
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Re: The Seizure Machine
« Reply #3 on: Mar 22nd, 2004, 11:11am » |
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on Mar 20th, 2004, 7:52pm, HypnoticFreddy wrote:
Here is my question. Does a seizure correlate to "head trauma"?
I ask because I see that there is evidence in some individuals to get CHs after some sort of head trauma.
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I have'nt ever had a seizure but I have experienced three concussions. The first when I was 9yrs old, the second when I was 17, and the third when I was 20. I started getting clusters a few months before my 21st birthday (although I did not know they were clusters at the time). I mentioned this to my first neuro after I was "officially" diagnosed with CH and she said that it had no correlation  . Has anyone else experienced head trauma/concussions and then later CH?
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Re: The Seizure Machine
« Reply #4 on: Mar 23rd, 2004, 12:18pm » |
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I had 2 head injuries as a child. The worst one was never treated because my parents were faith healers. My mother said I had a seizure. I was in my late teens when I first started having CH.
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Re: The Seizure Machine
« Reply #5 on: Mar 23rd, 2004, 3:10pm » |
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