PPS and Seizures
Question: I have been experiencing seizures, the kind that puts me in an ambulance. Is this polio related?
Dr. Bruno’s Response: Seizures are not PPS symptoms. There is one very small Turkish study finding 11 of 91 polio survivors had epilepsy. But epilepsy onset was at 17 years old, not in mid-life as with PPS. Seizures should be treated in polio survivors as in non-polio survivors, with doctors being aware that anti-seizure drugs may cause increased fatigue in polio survivors.