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Speaking another language
Thu, 02/02/2006 - 17:14I HAVE PETITMAL SEIZURES.THE STRANGE THING IS I SPEAK SPANISH ON THE OUTSET OF GOING INTO SEIZURE.I DONT SPEAK FLUENT SPANISH.I PICKED UP SOME IN HIGH SCHOOL BUT NOT ENOUGH TO ESTABLISH ANY KIND OF VOCABULARY.I'VE HAD SEIZURES FOR 50 YRS.[I'M 71]THEY STARTED OUT AS GRAND MAL UNTIL I STARTED MEDICATION I TOKE PHENO.,TEGRATOL,AND DILANTON.ANY ONE WITH SIMILAR PROBLEM?THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
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Re: Speaking another language
Submitted by sleyrus on Thu, 2006-02-02 - 20:22
my sister did the same thing, only I don't think it was a real language. Iwaswith her when she had the first one, and can you imagine the looks I got when I told my mom she had just started speaking a different language for a few minutes and then she was fine?
hers started out like that, then progressed to GM later.
I have been diagnosed with
Submitted by mjdanhunhe on Tue, 2017-12-05 - 01:00
I have been diagnosed with epilepsy and my doctors are a little frustrated at this point, just trying to control them. I have been trying to learn languages lately to improve brain function. Two of the languages I am working on refreshing some of my knowledge and then continuing, and the other is completely new to me. I had a seizure today and started jabbering in French. I do not know it very well so what I was told I said, I had to look up. It was odd.