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(Message started by: floridian on Mar 21^st, 2004, 10:12am)

Title: Re: The Seizure Machine
Post by floridian on Mar 21^st, 2004, 10:12am

Quote:

Here is my question. Does a seizure correlate to "head trauma"?

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.

Title: Re: The Seizure Machine
Post by Mark C on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 5:58am

Photosensitive Epilepsy (http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/photo.html)

Title: Re: The Seizure Machine
Post by notseinfeld on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 10:27am

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.

Just like alcohol and CCH! Lucky us :)

Title: Re: The Seizure Machine
Post by Thorns on Mar 22^nd, 2004, 11:11am

on 03/20/04 at 19:52:25, 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.

Oy. That ended my string of Phish shows. Too many blinking lights!
-Freddy

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 [smiley=huh.gif]. Has anyone else experienced head trauma/concussions and then later CH?
Thorns

Title: Re: The Seizure Machine
Post by genss on Mar 23^rd, 2004, 12:18pm

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.

Title: Re: The Seizure Machine
Post by miapet on Mar 23^rd, 2004, 3:10pm

D suffered head trauma as a child.