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advice for supporting my partner with seizures
Wed, 02/24/2016 - 12:42Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
I'm in a fairly new relationship and I experienced my partners first grand mal seizure last night. I have enough medical training to know how to deal with the actual seizure and know when medical help is or isn't required.
However, dealing with the after effects with him has thrown me as it's just an area I have too little knowledge to pinpoint if at any point I should be concerned.
For some background my partners seizures stem from brain injury in a road accident 20 years ago (I'm unsure as to of this changes the after effects of a seizure?)
During this seizure he experienced vomiting and double incontinence but as it took place while he slept, he didn't sustain any knocks or bumps.
He's been predictably tired and confused with his short term memory very obviously affected but he is having bouts of increased confusion and also on these moments, further incontinence.
I'm not sure if these are from the grand mal or some other type of seizures but he says he never thought of checking this with his Dr.
Should I be concerned or is this a normal 'aftermath' for grand mal seizures
Welcome
Submitted by just_joe on Fri, 2016-02-26 - 10:57
Welcome You are on the site that can give you all kinds of information. Your partner should discuss these issues with his neurologist. A person can have more then 1 type of seizure. I know that well since I can have almost any of the seizures listed. incontinence does happen in seizures and yes a person can have a seizure and if the person with them isn't watching they might not know it. If he hadn't had a seizure before his accident that cause a concussion then it might have caused his problem. I had a rung on a ladder come out and hit my head hard. That hit spun my head around and it slammed into the bottom rail of the bunk bed. Well the first hit left a big bump with no bleeding to be seen. The doctors worked on my mouth since I needed 32 stiches on my tongue and the inside of my jaw. Years later I started having seizures. Tests have shown that that hit on my head caused bleeding inside my skull. That bleeding caused scar tissue, That tissue is what caused my epilepsy. As I posted he does need to discuss these issues with his neurologist and it might help if you went with him because yo have information they might glean from.