I'm very sorry to hear about your wifes conditions, she may have some sort of a paralysis disorder followed by a minor complex/partial seizure disorder, I know you had mentioned she had an EEG and that came back normal, but I also suggest to you that she gets an MRI as well which gives a full result of the brain and what may be triggering the waves to make her body go paralyzed as well as memory loss. I have complex/ partial seizures and the same symptoms occur with me, I start shaking my body stiffs up, I start hyperventilating, then I black out at some points and I get tingly at my finger tips for the most part, I wish you all the best and hope doctors can find answers for her.
Thank you for responding. She has had two ekg's, an eeg and a ct scan. All that and bloodwork came back fine. But when she has these attacks she is not hyperventalating, her body goes numb first. The docs keep saying its hyperventalation syndrome caused by anxiety which makes her blow off all her carbon dioxide and thats why her body cramps up. But really she goes numb and cramps up and then starts hyperventalating/breathing heavy because she scared and does not know what is going on.
Anxiety can cause so many different symptoms, and effect people different. I have had them all, except I have Never been paralyzed while or after the attack. I have had all the tingleing and numbness, even burning sensation threw my whole body. ANd she had a lot of tests done and they came back normal. I think you said she had a ekg, but I would see a cardiologist to do a ultra-sound on her heart to make sure there is nothing missed. Because a ekg in my opnion does not show much. How does she act when going thorugh the attacks? And when this happens is she crying and having trouble breathing? She could be cutting off her own oxygen by hyperventilating. If your oxygen is low, it could cause the muscle cramps, numbness, tingling.