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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 anbobglo73 on Wed, 2012-04-25 - 17:30
Usually after a seizure I am sore and not myself for about a week. Things are as if a dream sequence. My legs feel like I am lifting cinder blocks. I, too, back when I was about 23 have gone for about a 7 year period without seizures then when I was 30 I went thru a rough patch and had like a seizure a week for a 4 month period then it got a little better> My next seizure was year later. Then I went another year and I had a very bad episode where I went in the hospital on the 5th and did not wake up until the 8th. I remember nothing from that time period. Recently, I went thru a period of a seiure about once a month. Now at age 38 I have not had a seizure in over a year I am happy. But I know that the monster is waiting.
I want to know has anyone experience any deep depression and how do they cope?
Usually after a seizure I am sore and not myself for about a week. Things are as if a dream sequence. My legs feel like I am lifting cinder blocks. I, too, back when I was about 23 have gone for about a 7 year period without seizures then when I was 30 I went thru a rough patch and had like a seizure a week for a 4 month period then it got a little better> My next seizure was year later. Then I went another year and I had a very bad episode where I went in the hospital on the 5th and did not wake up until the 8th. I remember nothing from that time period. Recently, I went thru a period of a seiure about once a month. Now at age 38 I have not had a seizure in over a year I am happy. But I know that the monster is waiting.
I want to know has anyone experience any deep depression and how do they cope?
Re: How long do YOU feel strange after a seizure?
Submitted by endinsight on Tue, 2012-04-24 - 20:54
If you have 72 days between seizures, you may have a food additive/chemical/preservative concern you may need to deal with. You ever notice how the food industry says of their packages now NO MSG ADDED ! That is because it is already in there foods by some other name like Yeast Extract, Carrageenan or some other glutamate additive that works just like MSG. Nitrates in meat and other smoked flavored meat by products can create terror to the human brain as so can Aspartame. So maybe some of those things are your problem and if you eliminate it all you may never have another seizure. I have noticed though when I do go s long as I have been almost 17 months seizure free, I have always been told that that last seizure I had was one of my worst ever. My last one will be my last one as long as I am alive and aware that I will not be eating or drinking anythiong that will give me my worst Grand Mal ever. I know if any doctor would be reading this and think I am crazy, just start a new clinical study on what I am telling you and others about. I'll prove it to you but hopefully by God's healing power he would prove me wrong, because odds are I am still right as I know what can happen even after 17 months being seizure free. I do not need to prove it to myself anymore. I have seen enough dark times never knowing if I were dead or would come out a grand mal seizure alive.
If you have 72 days between seizures, you may have a food additive/chemical/preservative concern you may need to deal with. You ever notice how the food industry says of their packages now NO MSG ADDED ! That is because it is already in there foods by some other name like Yeast Extract, Carrageenan or some other glutamate additive that works just like MSG. Nitrates in meat and other smoked flavored meat by products can create terror to the human brain as so can Aspartame. So maybe some of those things are your problem and if you eliminate it all you may never have another seizure. I have noticed though when I do go s long as I have been almost 17 months seizure free, I have always been told that that last seizure I had was one of my worst ever. My last one will be my last one as long as I am alive and aware that I will not be eating or drinking anythiong that will give me my worst Grand Mal ever. I know if any doctor would be reading this and think I am crazy, just start a new clinical study on what I am telling you and others about. I'll prove it to you but hopefully by God's healing power he would prove me wrong, because odds are I am still right as I know what can happen even after 17 months being seizure free. I do not need to prove it to myself anymore. I have seen enough dark times never knowing if I were dead or would come out a grand mal seizure alive.