Need a Little Advice for TLE

Just a bit of clarification on the difference between seizure types. In complex partial, there's an alteration or change in level of awareness - sometimes it looks like person is fine but they aren't fully aware of what is going on and may not recall all or part of it afterwards. The amount of awareness that people retain can vary a lot. Note that whether or not a person can speak isn't clearly related to awareness, it depends on whether the language areas of the brain are involved in the seizure. For example in a complex partial seizure, people may not speak at all, may speak but not make sense, may talk fine, or just make noises or other sounds. In simple partial - there's no change in level of awareness or consciousness. There is a change in behavior of some sort, but person is aware of symptoms. When a seizure secondarily generalizes, there is a loss of consciousness. The terms can certainly be confusing! Here are some links to content on epilepsy.com on partial seizures. Take alook at the professional site as well. There are also videos of what seizures look like. <a href="http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial.html">www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial.html</a> <a href="http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_complexpartial.html">www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_complexpartial.html</a> <a href="http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_secondgeneralized.html">www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_secondgeneralized.htm</a> <a href="http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/epilepsy_temporallobe.html">www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/epilepsy_temporallobe.html</a> Hope this helps! Epi_help