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Absence Seizures for Adults?
Tue, 09/25/2007 - 01:20Hello, I'm new
I'm a 21 year old and I started noticing that I was "blanking out" oddly a couple of years ago
Finally after 2 years, I see a doctor, he tells me I might have "Absence Seizures"
and he referred me a Nuerologist tells me I have Complex Partial Seizures (without testing me or anything at all)
but my Seizures are not Several minutes long, they are only about 10 seconds
and I keep telling myself I have Absence Seizures, but Im an adult
Here's how seizure is:
A sudden vertigo/dizziness like trance, only lasting about 5-10 seconds, I forget my surroundings for a second, they happen one or two days a week, up to 12 times a day
and some weeks they don't happen at all
and only a few times I've had a bad headache afterwards
Anyone had this same problem as an Adult, can Adults get Absence Seizures?
Comments
Re: Re: Absence Seizures for Adults?
Submitted by ChelB on Thu, 2007-11-01 - 13:12
It sounds like you are having more than absence seizures. An EEG will not always catch all of the types of seizure activity that you have. It depends on the type of EEG you have done and how long you wear it, plus whether or not you're on meds when you do it...and so on. To me it sounds like you are having absence and partial seizures. Good luck in finding answers and help. Sometimes it takes quite a while to get all the answers and find the right "fix", so don't give up. :D
Re: Re: Absence Seizures for Adults?
Submitted by banffgirl on Tue, 2007-11-06 - 16:18
they told my parents when i was 12 that i had out grown my abscence seizures but my brother said i did it all thru my teen yrs. he would just count one one thousand two one thousand etc, and than say shes back!!!! he was always a jokster so i ignored him, and never asked him what he was talking about until this year. i was still having seizures. then at 25 i had my 1st t/c. but i used to fall alot too. i think if you are walking and have abscence you can trip and fall or lose your balance. but i have primary generalized epilepsy. its genetic. i am now 49 and still have both types of seizures.
hugs,
banffgirl
It depends...sometimes it's
Submitted by Kevinsgirl on Sun, 2007-11-11 - 15:25
It depends...sometimes it's once a week, sometimes once a day, other times it's ten or twenty times. It all depends on how stressed/tired, etc I am.