I have epilepsy and have been dealing with it for about 7 years now. I have what is known as Secondary Generalised epilepsy which means my seizures happen in a specific way.
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There are 3 main types of epilepsy:
[b]*Tonic Clonic Epilepsy (Grand Mal)[/b] This is the one everyone knows. It is a large electrical discharge over the entire brain but mostly over the temporal lobe. The temporal lobe is involved in auditory processing and is home to the primary auditory cortex. It is also important for the processing of semantics in both speech and vision. The temporal lobe contains the hippocampus and plays a key role in the formation of long-term memory. The one where you hit the deck and shake like a motherfucker amongst other things. Its a scarey thing to witness, but personally I have little to know idea what happens as I'm too busy being unconcious.
[b]*Complex/Simple Partial Epilepsy (Petit Mal)[/b] Partial seizures are discharges over a smaller part of the brain that are usually much less severe. Depending on where the discharge occurs, the sufferer can go temporarily blind, deaf, lose the ability to speak. Or any combination of these. The sufferer very rarely loses conciousness and it usually lasts about 2 minutes.
[b]*Secondary Generalised Epilepsy[/b] This is what I have. In a nutshell, secondary generalised epilepsy is a double whammy of both of othe other two types of epilepsy. It starts out as a Partial Seizure that sort of "tips over" into a Tonic Clonic Seizure.
The seizure starts out with a pressure in my head and the most intence sensations of De Ja Vu you could imagine. Then the world starts spinning and my eyes usually roll into the back of my head and I can't see any more. This is usually the last thing I remember.
According to the statements of other people. I do the whole shaking thing and sound like I'm choking. My lips will turn blue and I'll be chewing on my tongue. Then after about a minute I gasp and then stop breathing I won't breath again for about another 40 seconds. Then I am unconcious for roughly 15-20 minutes before coming round. A lot of the time, when I first regain conciousness I am not me. I will be agressive and angry. Either that or I bawww like a baby. I am like a really agro drunk. Only parts of my brain are working and I'm in pure fight or flight mode.
When I come round I'm usually on the floor and sore. Very Sore. It's like doing a really intense workout session with no warm up or stretch out. I ache all over. Also 9 times out of 10 during the seizure I push my right shoulder out of it's socket so that hurts like balls. I will also chew the bejesus out of my tongue which swells out like a bitch. I am usually thouroughly unsteady on my feet and dizzy until I get a good few hours sleep. I usually also have vicious munchies.
What prompted me to make this post? Today I went on an epilepsy adventure!
Today I had one of the worst seizures I have had since I was diagnosed. I was sat at my PC wearing s T-shirt and boxer I had slept in when it hit. I sat down on the floor trying to get myself into a position that was safe where I wouldn't hurt myself. Thats the last thing I remember. Normally I wake up like I said above. Not this time.
The first thing I remember, I am outside. walking down the road. Crying. Still only wearing my T-shirt and Boxers, bare foot. My shoulder is dislocated, I've twisted my ankle , there's a large cut on my elbow and there's vomit at the sides of my mouth but still I keep walking. I walked for 20 minutes in a loop round the streets outside my house. For the first 15 minutes I was still so disorientated I just walked. The fact I was barely dressed and staggering around like a freak didn't occur to me in the slightest. I just remember being terrified, helpless and totally unaware of what was going on. What was more concerning was no one saw fit to help me. I consider myself lucky I didn't stagger into the road. When I got back to the house, I'd left my front door open, my computer chair was on it;s back, but more inexplicably. I'd let my pet rats out. I had opened the cage for reasons I can't begin to fathom. Luckily they hadn't run away.
For the first time I don't feel in control and epilepsy has become a really scary thing to me. My main concern was that I could have stumbled under a car or worse.
Are there any other epileptic facepunchers? Any fantabulous seizure quests you want to share?
I used to have complex febrile convulsions which were like a worse type of epilepsy, luckely I don't have it any more.
My ex had epilepsy. wasn't really fun those times she had seizures
I remember the first time I saw someone have a proper Epileptic fit, worst thing was it was a small house party and I was drunk, I was sitting next to the girl (who has some sort of brain tumour :/) and she went into a fit. Shaking like mad, blinking and eyes rolled. It was the first time I saw something like this and I felt instantly sober and full of panic. I just tried to comfort her, luckily her friends were there with us at the time. She'd forgotten to take some pills of some sort. You can't forget seeing something like that, especially when you meet them and they just don't show any sign of having trouble.
I don't know what I look like, so I can't empathise with people who freak out when they see me fit.
When I had my first seizure, my dad imprisoned me in the house for 2 weeks and wouldn't let me out of the house alone. It wasn't until my doctor told him to chill the fuck out and let me live my life that he got a clue.
I haven't had an epileptic fit but I've been knocked unconcious twice (not in fights) and I had the exact same thing as you described except the first time I can remember seeing flashing images I couldn't make sense of.
It's not fun to wake up with people standing around you thinking you were dead.
My best friend has epilepsy, and it has to be one of the most awful things I've ever seen - her having a seizure. Because there really isn't anything you can do to help them. Baw...
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^ Not all epileptics are photosensitive.
Maybe my rainbow rating's colors will make this thread funny.
I got scared when reading the OP :ohdear:
[QUOTE=Levithan II;16145180]Maybe my rainbow rating's colors will make this thread funny.[/QUOTE]
Yup sure are a lot of rainbows to funny this thread up.
smoke some weed
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My friend died of epilepsy.
And it was one of those instances where if someone was with him, he wouldn't have died. He had a seizure while eating and choked to death.
My brother has epilepsy, and an uncanny ability to always throw his fits when I'm around. It usually starts with him tilting his head back, his arms in weird positions, eyes rolled back in his head and him making a noise like a really bad a snore. Then he just starts flailing around.
The first time it happened, it was completely different, he just stood in the middle of a room, vomitted and was confused. I wasn't there so I don't really know what happened.
The second time was scary, cause we were all eating breakfast and he just started acting weird in his chair, looking to the corner of his eye, and then the flailing begins. Was quite a battle getting him onto the floor, and that he turned blue all over freaked my mother and brother out, and having 2 people running around crying and in a bit of panic doesn't really help the situation. We called for an ambulance and they arrived a few minutes after the seizure stopped, he had started breathing again but was still unconscious, that was the time he was diagnosed with epilepsy.
He's had 5 or 6 seizures so far, of which I've been present at 4 of them.
My mum has had epilepsy since she was sixteen. It's not nice at all, i feel for you all who have it. :(
After asking my Girlfriend the video JesseSmith11 posted is pretty accurate. But as I dislocate my shoulder. I can't get up. But somehow this time I did.
[QUOTE=Dr Magnusson;16145368]The first time it happened, it was completely different, he just stood in the middle of a room, vomitted and was confused. I wasn't there so I don't really know what happened.[/QUOTE]
That was a partial seizure as oppose to a Grand Mal. They suck but they're not as bad.
[QUOTE=Dr Magnusson;16145368]The second time was scary, cause we were all eating breakfast and he just started acting weird in his chair, looking to the corner of his eye, and then the flailing begins. Was quite a battle getting him onto the floor, and that he turned blue all over freaked my mother and brother out, and having 2 people running around crying and in a bit of panic doesn't really help the situation. We called for an ambulance and they arrived a few minutes after the seizure stopped, he had started breathing again but was still unconscious, that was the time he was diagnosed with epilepsy.
He's had 5 or 6 seizures so far, of which I've been present at 4 of them.[/QUOTE]
When I had my first fit, I turned blue and gasped at the end and stopped breathing. I was living with my parents at the time. My Dad thought I'd died and was thumping my chest and performing CPR. My mum still won't talk to me about that night she says it's the scariest thing she's ever seen.
I've had multiple seizures since last month. Two of them I woke up and didn't remember at all (other than the obvious after effects), and the third, I was awake and conscious through the convulsions. It was weird, I was able to see and feel my entire body convulsing, but was able to do nothing about it. I remember having an auditory hallucination before (the aura), so I sat up (I was in bed) to investigate, then I broke out into the convulsions, which seemed to have lasted at least a minute (I have no idea how much my sense of time was distorted). Afterward, I was (every muscle in my body, it seemed) sore for the next couple days, and still have a sore tongue from when I bit it, because that seizure was a few days ago.
I have to say that the most embarrasing one was when it was in class, during a lecture. I started feeling really dizzy, and I got this feeling like my head was being squished in a vice, and the next thing I know I'm on the floor, the entire class staring at me, my professor kneeling down next to me. My friend in the class who sat next to me said I was staring straight ahead of me with my eyes glazed over before I collapsed, but I don't remember that at all. I had a killer headache for the next 3 days.
I'm thinking I have epelepsy, I am not sure yet though.. but I have some of the symptoms.. and I have not gotten an attack.
The weirdest shit I ever remember was a complex partial seizure. This was one where I didn't lose conciousness and didn't convulse. But went blind, dizzy, mute and just went on the worst LSD trip ever for about 90 seconds.
In my distorted logic. I was going to write my girlfriend a note incase it tipped onto a full on seizure. I knew what I was writing. Something along the lines of "Had seizure, don't panic, love you". I read it afterwards. It was neat, all on the line organised into words etc etc.
[b]XHTC HTCD
HT4HC HT44CHX X4TTCHTF [/b]
etc etc...
seriously wtf
I think I have had one seizure before.
I was sitting in one of those weird chairs with speakers in them, watching TV in my room, then all of a sudden I just spaced out, and felt my eyes roll. It lasted maybe a second, possibly even faster. But I have no idea if that was a seizure, or if people randomly twitch like that. I have never experienced it again. ALSO... Do you grow out of epilepsy?
How do you fix your shoulder every time? How often are your... episodes?
[QUOTE=Ribeeto;16145707]I'm thinking I have epelepsy, I am not sure yet though.. but I have some of the symptoms.. and I have not gotten an attack.[/QUOTE]
Hope that you don't. They're not at all fun. What symptoms do you have?
[QUOTE=Sam Tilgan;16146219]How do you fix your shoulder every time? How often are your... episodes?[/QUOTE]
I fit about once a month.
As for the shoulder thing. After 3 years on dislocating my shoulder regularly my shoulder is loose as fuck. I can crack it back in myself, and look thoroughly bad ass while I do it.
One time, when I was walking around like normal, and suddenly blanked out. I woke up (I think, it felt like it atleast) a few seconds later.
I have no explanation for this, I didn't just get up, so you can't blame it on extreme lightheadedness, I just suddenly fell backwards and passed out for a few seconds. Luckily I fell near the exit of my bathroom, and onto carpet and not the solid tile floor.
I don't think it was seizure though.
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[QUOTE=Cluckyx;16146026]The weirdest shit I ever remember was a complex partial seizure. This was one where I didn't lose conciousness and didn't convulse. But went blind, dizzy, mute and just went on the worst LSD trip ever for about 90 seconds.
In my distorted logic. I was going to write my girlfriend a note incase it tipped onto a full on seizure. I knew what I was writing. Something along the lines of "Had seizure, don't panic, love you". I read it afterwards. It was neat, all on the line organised into words etc etc.
[b]XHTC HTCD
HT4HC HT44CHX X4TTCHTF [/b]
etc etc...
seriously wtf[/QUOTE]
That code is a divine message.
Not to liken your condition to divinity.
The first Caesar was epileptic and he did just fine for himself. Well, you know, until he was stabbed by sixty people. I hope you don't get stabbed, buddy.
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I also don't want you fucking up my Republic.
Seizures are worse than I thought they were. It must really suck when you feel one coming on and know there's nothing you can do to stop it. :frown:
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