Seizure While Driving

Re: Seizure While Driving

Submitted by shiznit on Sat, 2009-01-10 - 12:04

Seriously-I believe I know how you feel sorta, your probably feel super anxious.  not only from the seizure you had and from being in the hospital and the accident, thanking your lucky stars no one was hurt.  You probably keep running the events through your head over and over again, like how in the hell did this happen to me.  --that's what i do.  Then the last thing hits you, shit ---I can't go anywhere, I'm stuck. I don't know how long your restrictions are but in my state it is 6 months.  I was almost finished with mine, then I had another 2 grand mals January 3.  so now I have to wait to July 3---frick!!!  I am cutting out all wine drinking now.  I think that might have been the culprit.  I love my wine.  but oh well, I will drink non alcoholic wine.  ;-)  so i'm in that period of being anxious and rethinking everything that just happened and being seriously pissed off. ps...hw long is the period that you have to wait in your state before you can drive again?

susan

Re: Seizure While Driving

Submitted by livelove123 on Sat, 2009-01-10 - 15:38

It is 6 months in my state. But even then I don't know if I will feel comfortable enough to get behind the wheel. I definently understand where everyone is coming from. Of course I know I am beyond lucky and grateful that I didn't hurt kill anyone. I can't, and don't even want to, imagine living with that for the rest of my life. That's why I don't know when I'll mentally and emotionally be ready to drive again. I'm not complaining, I just was wondering if there were others out there who had an accident as well and how they were dealing with it. And yes Susan that's true, I do keep replaying it in my head. For example the other day in class we were watching a video on driving accidents and they showed this part where a teen was being pulled out of a car into an ambulance and I just wanted to start crying because that's what happened to me. It's just hard for a 17 year old to cope with all this, that's all. I just feel that most teens have to worry about homework, getting into college, having fun. But having this on my shoulders, I just feel so different from everyone else. I definently understand I could have a disease so far worse then seizures but it's just emotionally difficult at times. My mom and doctors tell me many teens out-grow seizures as they're older and don't have them anymore but I am just not sure.

Re: Seizure While Driving

Submitted by speedyfly45 on Mon, 2009-03-02 - 13:37

I am now 20, a junior in college, and I bought my truck (4 wheel drive, cute blck little mazda) about 2 years ago when I had been seizure free for a while and had a simmilar occurence: woke up in an ambulence in a stretcher. Luckily, I was stopped at a stop sign when I had my accident and it was early in the morning so I just roled through and didn't hurt anyone (includeing myself). Now, I am having tons of seizures and haven't driven in about a year. The reason I keep having them is because I am stubborn and don't pay attention to what my body tells me...So, my only advice is: be smart! Pay attention to what your body tells you. You KNOW that when you have those little shakes you might have a BIG shake, but only you can sit yourself down and wait for it to pass. Just take care of yourself, the sooner you do that, the sooner you will be driving. Good luck, Don't take the hard route like me.