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Conscious during seizures

Tue, 02/13/2007 - 16:48
i was wondering if anyone else remains conscious whilst their whole body is thrown into a seizure. doctors when i was younger thought i was doing it for attention and ive been in casualty fitting for 2 hours constantly with doctors refusing to give me anything as apparently "this is not a fit" they said. finally it was captured on EEG and its been accepted im just weird! i was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem and how its affected them - for me i stopped taking my medication didnt believe i had epilepsy and my fits changed from temporal lobe to multi foci (im on medication now not that its doing any good)

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Re: Re: Conscious during seizures

Submitted by stevennnn on Thu, 2007-06-21 - 14:45
It used to happen to me. I asked my doctor at that point can I control my seizures and stop them from becoming a grand mall and he said that is what I am doing. Stopping from becoming a grand mall. He said that I have the mind power to just stop it from happening. It had gotten to that I would not even lay down. I would pass and drive my hart beat down each minute by one or two beats. Sometimes I would just get real pissed and decide it was over. And it was. But, instead of having a seizure that last from 1 to 15 minutes, I would stay in a state of just about to have a grand mall for up to two hours. This is what you are doing.

Re: Re: Conscious during seizures

Submitted by life4me on Thu, 2007-06-21 - 15:54
Life4me These are definitely Petit Mals lasting 1-2 minutes, but ongoing disorientation afterwards. In 12 years, I have had several types of seizures which began when I was 35 years old. Epilepsy is active in my family w/ women over 35 years old, only one male reported seizures. My mother died in a seizure, and I even had natural childbirth in an epileptic seizure 8 years ago. I have a VNS Implant (Vagal Nerve Implant) since 2004 which seems to influence the true seizures which rarely happen. However, my current pseudo-seizures are associated w/ Hypogycemia (low sugar episodes) My body seems to demand high protein foods regularly or else a Petit Mal. Like it was reported, sometimes you just sit and wait it out -very frustrating. For example, my dinner can be quite filling with all the food groups, but if I do not consume enough meats or beans, a seizure can result even if I was not stressed. It seems like the seizures occur during the period when my protein is being processed to glucose to the brain.You seem to know a lot about seizures, have you ever heard this kind of seizure. Mornings are a nightmare because I wake up 6 -7 hours later from bedtime, and I wake up dizzy and unable to communicate until drinking juice and waiting 15 mins. for carbs to reach blood-stream to the brain.

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