No one knows whether it's the epilepsy that causes this to happen or if that person already has problems with their heart and/or lungs. Most people that are at risk of this happening are people with poor control of their seizures, have seizures during their sleep, have a learning disability, young adult males, people who are not taking their medication and/or people getting frequently changes in their medication.
I found out that there are ways to reduce the risk of SUDEP. Some of the following are:
if seizures are not under control go see an specialist consistently, always take your medication, make sure that you never run out of your medication, and never make changes to or stop taking your medication without seeing your specialist. So now there are many things to know about epilepsy and the thing that scares everyone, DEATH!
"Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)." Epilepsy Information SUDEP 12 2007 28 04 2008
3 comments:
Good post Diera, but my question to you is, what if you are doing everything right by taking your medication and what not is it possible that there still can be a sudden death even if you follow those instructions?
That was very said. I know you suffer from this. so just be careful and watch this. luv ya gurl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didnt know much about that disease until I read your post. If this disease kills 500 people a year then this is no joke at all. And if you really do have this disease and still smile and laugh and make jokes all the time then your a strong young lady that will succeed.
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