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clueless when im going have a seizure

Sat, 01/05/2008 - 12:43
I was talking to this lady online whos turns out to be a nurse and I was telling here that i have epilepsy and  I cant tell when im going have a seizure and she told me im the first person she ever knew that cant tell when he or she going have a seizure so I was wondering is it normal for a person not to know when he or she going have a seizure

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I don't know when I am going to have a seizure

Submitted by bleedingheart on Sat, 2008-01-05 - 20:00
It is perfectly normal for a person to be unaware that they are going to have a seizure. Some people get an aura as a warning of an oncoming seizure. Other people might have a seizure alert service dog that can warn them that they are going to have a seizure. Even people without epilepsy can have a seizure because everyone has a certain level of seizure threshold. People with epilepsy generally have a lower threshold than people without epilepsy. I never knew when I was going to have a seizure. It usually occured after a stressful or exciting evening where I was lacking sleep. But it didn't always happen.

Clueless

Submitted by Seruzies on Sun, 2008-01-06 - 23:40
Mine hit me whenever they damn well please. Sometimes, I'll have an aura but,  don't have a seizure right then and there or shortly thereafter. Usually, when that happens, I can try to do the things I have been doing to try to prevent them. Put myself in a more relaxing situation, eat something, or get some rest. Or, a combination of all three. Other times, I'll have a Grand Mal that hits me like a brick, and there's nothing anyone can do about it, that's usually the amulance ride to the hospital.

Clueless

Submitted by allykuehn on Wed, 2008-01-09 - 12:45

To be honest, had my first one (grand mal)almost a week and a half ago and had no clue it was going to happen nor did I have any clue what had happened!!  Now I am still having smaller simple partial seizures and absence seizures and I will realize after they have happened . . . usually when I stop arguing with my husband that I did indeed just have one (I "come to" with him telling me that I just had one, but I usually do not agree)..  I have started to be able to tell that I am going ot have an absence seizure, but again, I am still pretty new to this.

To be honest, had my first one (grand mal)almost a week and a half ago and had no clue it was going to happen nor did I have any clue what had happened!!  Now I am still having smaller simple partial seizures and absence seizures and I will realize after they have happened . . . usually when I stop arguing with my husband that I did indeed just have one (I "come to" with him telling me that I just had one, but I usually do not agree)..  I have started to be able to tell that I am going ot have an absence seizure, but again, I am still pretty new to this.

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