Seizure and paralysis

J2021 JANUARY

January 2021

We may think that our muscles are capable of all sorts of things, but realistically, they only have an extremely limited range. They can contract and release. That's about it. Our body is only able to move in it's many different ways, due to different muscles contracting and releasing. So when we have non-epileptic seizure, or involuntary movements, these are caused by our muscles contracting without us consciously controlling those muscle contractions. These involuntary movements, or seizures, can affect pretty much any muscle in bodies, meaning that our symptoms may look incredibly different. In reality, they are all caused by the same thing; muscles being involuntarily contracted and relaxed.

SO WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?

FND messes with our brains' ability to communicate with our bodies effectively. When we have seizures, or involuntary movements, our brains are misfiring; they are sending a message to some of our muscles that they should contract, or contract and relax. This can cause us to do some pretty weird things; make strange uncontrolable movements, move into uncomfortable positions, or, if the muscles simply contract and don't relax, freeze parts of our bodies. Despite the huge range of presentations, the underlying mechanisms are the same. When these muscles contract and relax rapidly, they can resemble a seizure. When certain muscles contract and stay contracted, it can appear as if we are paralysed. This can obviously be extremely distressing, painful and debilitating. I don't know about you, but I tend to like being in control of my own body!

What makes things tricky is the fact that stress and strong emotions make our symptoms worse. When our symptoms are wrecking havoc on us, we, understandably, find that pretty stressful! The stress that is caused by our symptoms, then make our symptoms worse, which is even more stressful, which makes our symptoms worse, and down the rabbit hole we go...

First of all, we need to ensure that we are safe. If we're going to be thrashing about, we probably shouldn't be driving a car.

Cushions and pillows can create a soft buffer between us and hard surfaces, and even other parts of our bodies. Neck pillows used for travel can be a great way to prevent our heads from smacking into things, or arching our necks into dangerous positions. You are going to keep doing whatever weird version of the exorcist your body has planned for you though, so make sure that your body has the freedom to move safely.

Since we know that stress causes our symptoms to intensify,

we need to remain calm, which isn't the easiest thing to do, but we need to try, breath in and out an calm down the best we can an just wait it out.

Yes things like this can be scary an scary for poeple around us but we need to try to remain as calm as possible an try to lower are symptoms, most poeple should know a few things that help make there symptoms less .

Things I would recommend is a weighted blacket !

Something that Vibrates , or gives compression. Something hot or cold whichever helps you an someone who can talk you through or with u while its going on to try to get ur mind to not think about what its doing .

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