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How long do YOU feel strange after a seizure?
Tue, 03/27/2012 - 23:32Comments
Re: How long do YOU feel strange after a seizure?
Submitted by kayzak on Tue, 2012-04-17 - 20:27
My e is fairly smple and easily controlled. A couple years ago, after going nearly 18 years, the seizure monster got me. Apparently it was a bad one. I wasn't there for it. It took me a couple months to get back to normal. I attribute the length of time to how bad the seizure was and how long it had been between them. Since that last tonic clonic, I think I may have had a couple auras that did not progress to tonic clonic. It took me just a few hours to get back to normal after them.
My e is fairly smple and easily controlled. A couple years ago, after going nearly 18 years, the seizure monster got me. Apparently it was a bad one. I wasn't there for it. It took me a couple months to get back to normal. I attribute the length of time to how bad the seizure was and how long it had been between them. Since that last tonic clonic, I think I may have had a couple auras that did not progress to tonic clonic. It took me just a few hours to get back to normal after them.
Re: How long do YOU feel strange after a seizure?
Submitted by sparker001 on Wed, 2012-04-18 - 16:36
For me if it's a tonic clonic I am not 100% until after maybe a week. It can range anywhere from a few days to a few weeks after my round of SP's and CP's. My last round in March lasted just 1 week, which for me was remarkably short. Normally I am not symptom free until about 3 weeks after.
One memory related thing that happens to me that is bizarre, and I wonder if it happens to you or anyone else: the first few days after my cycle of SP's and CP's happen, I go through this weird experience where I will think of something benign, such as "I need to remember to buy milk at the store" and there is this response from inside of myself that is as if someone had just told me my entire family had died in a car crash. Just this sense of shock and an emotional jolt that is so beyond the pale and has absolutely zero-percent to do with the thought that preceded it. And then a few minutes later it could something like "Oh I like that song on the radio that just started" and there is that emotional cataclysmic feeling inside of me as if the Twin Towers just toppled down in front of me on live TV, as we all observed 10+ yrs ago and shudder to remember still. The thought, and the reaction, could not be more disconnected and illogical. I can observe it and not get sucked into it, but of course all of that emotional jolting all day long for several days is emotionally exhausting! I have tried to explain this to some of my non-E friends and they find it fascinating, and they realize I'm not exagerating it at all, it's that extreme and illogical!
Blessings to you!
For me if it's a tonic clonic I am not 100% until after maybe a week. It can range anywhere from a few days to a few weeks after my round of SP's and CP's. My last round in March lasted just 1 week, which for me was remarkably short. Normally I am not symptom free until about 3 weeks after.
One memory related thing that happens to me that is bizarre, and I wonder if it happens to you or anyone else: the first few days after my cycle of SP's and CP's happen, I go through this weird experience where I will think of something benign, such as "I need to remember to buy milk at the store" and there is this response from inside of myself that is as if someone had just told me my entire family had died in a car crash. Just this sense of shock and an emotional jolt that is so beyond the pale and has absolutely zero-percent to do with the thought that preceded it. And then a few minutes later it could something like "Oh I like that song on the radio that just started" and there is that emotional cataclysmic feeling inside of me as if the Twin Towers just toppled down in front of me on live TV, as we all observed 10+ yrs ago and shudder to remember still. The thought, and the reaction, could not be more disconnected and illogical. I can observe it and not get sucked into it, but of course all of that emotional jolting all day long for several days is emotionally exhausting! I have tried to explain this to some of my non-E friends and they find it fascinating, and they realize I'm not exagerating it at all, it's that extreme and illogical!
Blessings to you!
Re: How long do YOU feel strange after a seizure?
Submitted by krose0526 on Tue, 2012-04-17 - 13:41
Sometimes that feeling for me only lasts for a day or two, but it seems like the longer I go without having a seizure the longer that feeling seems to last when one eventually hits me.