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Question-arm popping?
Mon, 08/25/2014 - 13:04I had a seizure about one week ago and like the rest of the seizures (grand mals) I don't remember anything about it. I do know that I must have fell on my left arm/shoulder because it was sore for the next few days and it had some scrapes and cuts on it.
What is different about this time is that whenever I put my left arm in a certain position, it "pops." The pop is loud enough that my girlfriend could actually hear it too. It's not really painful, although it might sound that way, it's more just a weird feeling when it happens.
My question is if anyone else has had this experience and if so, what is it?
PS - I know this might be more of a medical question (non-seizure related) but I thought I might ask it anyway and see if anyone has any solutions.
Well it might not be seizure
Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2014-08-25 - 19:29
Well it might not be seizure related but you might have hit it just right if yo ulanded on your shoulder. While I haven't had a grand mal seizure since I had my first one way back when. I did have focal seizures which generalized (electrical output covering the entire brain) which went into a convulsive seizure and in those I did land wierd at times. In mine I was concious and knew what was happening. In a few of those I did hit my shoulder and at times it popped or hurt some. It took a little while to get it functioning without popping but the popping stopped. Oh and I asked Doc Ben and he said that at times hitting a shoulder wrong does cause the shoulder to pop until everything adjusts back to normal. Mom put some ointmant on it and after a few days it was fine.