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17 and possibly having absence seizures? Please help.
Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:18I'm not sure if I'm having absence seizures, but it sounds like I may be having them. I am 17 years old and I feel like I zone out a lot. This isn't just daydreaming either. I don't think about anything. I just stare off into space. I'm worried that this is happening while I am driving. Sometimes I will be driving and just space out. I loose track of time while I am driving and I will admit it, I have been in a couple car accidents. During this time I wasn't on my phone. I wasn't messing with my radio. I just felt like I had left my body. I'm really worried that this is going to keep happening. Can someone help? Am I having absence seizures or is it just me zoning out and not paying attention? It happens when I am in class too. The teacher will be talking and then before I know it, they are on a completely different subject. My parents say I just don't pay attention, but it feels like I can't control it. Please give me some advice.
Check with your GP and
Submitted by just_joe on Wed, 2015-01-14 - 09:40
Check with your GP and discuss this with him. What you posted could be absence and partial seizures. I was diagnosed before they had types of seizures but focal seizures (AKA partial seizures) you are aware of things going on but you can lose track and delay a response. In school I was being written up for day dreaming in class when in reality those day dreams were seizures. I was asked a question and the teacher went to another student and before they answered the question I was answering the question I was asked. As for driving those accidents could have been during the time you were in a seizure, I would suggest you get the my epilepsy diary. Watch the video and note things in the note pad in the diary.. If you zone out as you posted not that too and give your doctors permission to bring it up on line. They can read you notes and they can come up with medications dosages and procedures that can get your seizures under control.