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The feelings after a seizure.

Sun, 01/23/2005 - 10:41
Hi. I wonder if anyone can relate to how I'm feeling. 2 nights ago I had a bad seizure in my sleep. Almost all of my seizures are nocturnal. If I have them for a few nights straight I will start to have them while awake. Well the next day I just layed down. When ever I got up I got a strange feeling. Just like before I do have a seizure. So of course this is terrifying. I'm sure if anyone has felt like this that you can understand. Does this happen to anyone else??? Here is one more question. It's 2 days later and nothing tastes right. Could this be a result of biting my tounge?? Today has been a hard day. Nothing feels right. Just to hear that I am not crazy would help so much. I've stated before that I don't know anyone else who suffers seizures.Thank you.Stacey.

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RE: The feelings after a seizure.

Submitted by pinkeagle2005 on Tue, 2004-11-09 - 15:44
All of my seizures occur during night time. I'm a teenager an dmy mother sleeps with me for a while, until I fall asleep because most of my seizures occur before I fall asleep completely. I feel when it is coming and all I want is hide it. I tried going to the bathroom twice, but I fell on the floor and fainted both times. During the seizure, I don't want anyone to help me. I don't like my mom or my dad talking to me or touching me. I want to suffer alone. While it is happening, I want to stop it. It lasts around 1.5 minutes. When it stops, I want to get myself in a comfortable position but I can't. My right arm gets numb because that's where the seizure affects the most and my whole body is half numb. I can move if I try really hard but it's almost impossible. I'm very tired after the seizure and want to sleep. Very often, I start to cry during or after the seizure. During and after the seizure I can't speak. I make pig-like noises during my seizure. Those noises really scare me but I can't control it. Sometimes I think I should go to special school or that I'm different. I can't accept the fact that I'm "the chosen" to have epilepsy with billions of people out there.

RE: The feelings after a seizure.

Submitted by ConsiderThis on Sun, 2005-01-23 - 10:41

Hi, the seizures I had were different because they were from tetanus, but they were terrifying because of the pain.

What I want to say, is that vitamin C helps a lot in reducing the infection... the doctors refused to look at my great toe where I got the darning needle in because they said I was just paranoid, I guess they thought that because I'd been screaming from the extreme pain when the contractions hit, and there wasn't any swelling or fever.

So I never had enough antibiotic to make the infection go away, and I had and keep having red lines under my great toe nail.

I had to find something to take because my muscles were getting so tight.. and when it was the worst it was hard to breath... so I took vitamin C in huge doses. Then I found an article about a study in Bangledesh where tetanus is more common, and it said that of the people who had vitamin C, the disease was not as harsh. (I forget the exact words .. I have some brain damage.)

So I think that if there tends to be infection from biting your tongue, that Vitamin C would help.

The other thing is that when I was living over an old outhouse pit and there was hydrogen sulfide in my house that affects the nerves and also causes soft tissue swelling, my gums swelled so much they bled, and that gave a peculiar taste all the time.

The other thing that is helping me survive this, is vitaming B12. The methylcobalamin sublingual lozenges is easy to take... but I still use shots because I'm familiar with what results to expect, adn when.

www.health-boundaries-bite.com/Fingernails.html
     Your fingernails reflect your health --
     Learn what warning signs to look for --
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Hi, the seizures I had were different because they were from tetanus, but they were terrifying because of the pain.

What I want to say, is that vitamin C helps a lot in reducing the infection... the doctors refused to look at my great toe where I got the darning needle in because they said I was just paranoid, I guess they thought that because I'd been screaming from the extreme pain when the contractions hit, and there wasn't any swelling or fever.

So I never had enough antibiotic to make the infection go away, and I had and keep having red lines under my great toe nail.

I had to find something to take because my muscles were getting so tight.. and when it was the worst it was hard to breath... so I took vitamin C in huge doses. Then I found an article about a study in Bangledesh where tetanus is more common, and it said that of the people who had vitamin C, the disease was not as harsh. (I forget the exact words .. I have some brain damage.)

So I think that if there tends to be infection from biting your tongue, that Vitamin C would help.

The other thing is that when I was living over an old outhouse pit and there was hydrogen sulfide in my house that affects the nerves and also causes soft tissue swelling, my gums swelled so much they bled, and that gave a peculiar taste all the time.

The other thing that is helping me survive this, is vitaming B12. The methylcobalamin sublingual lozenges is easy to take... but I still use shots because I'm familiar with what results to expect, adn when.

www.health-boundaries-bite.com/Fingernails.html
     Your fingernails reflect your health --
     Learn what warning signs to look for --
                                Karen Kline

Re: The feelings after a seizure.

Submitted by jpulman on Wed, 2011-07-13 - 22:04
Hi, i'm fairly new to all this. I got either viral encephalitis which caused seizures or just developed seizures. The Drs were never really able to figure it out but basically with my first seizure at 30yrs old i went into status. I was in a coma for 4 mos trying to get the seizures to stop, had surgery and everything else. i am now on 4 different AEDs and still having mostly CPSs and simple seizures as long as my levels are good. Lately after a CPS i have an extreme burning sensation in my fingertips and in my toes. Has anyone else experienced this?

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