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Behavior changes during absence seizure

Sun, 08/14/2016 - 17:31
My husband had epilepsy and it is pretty controlled by medication but today he had what I believe was some type of absence seizure. I have seen him have two prior to this but this one was a little different and I'm not sure if it's normal for this type of seizure or if it's something else. We were in the store and he was pushing the cart and all of a sudden he just starts walking faster like he's on some sort of mission. My daughter and I were walking behind him and I didn't notice anything odd at first, other than him not responding to a question I asked (I assumed he may have not heard me), but he eventually turned the corner and I realized that he had opened the pack of markers we had in our cart and had put one in his mouth. It was at that point I realized what was happening. I caught up to him and took the marker out of his mouth and made him stop pushing the cart. He then started acting strangely. He's a goofy, joking around guy by nature but he started teasing our daughter and juse acting really goofy in the store, hiding behind the wall and pretending to jump out at her and things like that. It scared our daughter(6) because he doesn't usually act that way in the store. I had to hold his hand the rest of the way out of the store to stop him from wandering off. It seemed to last way longer than the two I had seen before as well. Once we got home I told him that he had had a seizure but of course he remembered nothing. He still seemed a little "off" even after we got home but mostly normal. He immediately fell asleep when we got home and is still sleeping. I've never posted here before so I'm sorry about the wall of text but the whole thing has me pretty upset as it was very stressful seeing my daughter so freaked out at the store along with having to get both of them out of the store safely. I appreciate any insight on if this behavior during a seizure is typical or if this is something else.

Comments

I don't know how to edit my

Submitted by Alysha35 on Sun, 2016-08-14 - 17:45
I don't know how to edit my post, but I meant to say my husband has epilepsy, not had. 

Thank you Amy. I did some

Submitted by Alysha35 on Mon, 2016-08-15 - 12:11
Thank you Amy. I did some more research after I posted and talked to a few other people and learned about complex partial seizures. In the years that I have known him, he hasn't had this type of seizure so I wasn't familiar with it. 

Thank you Amy. I did some

Submitted by Alysha35 on Mon, 2016-08-15 - 12:11
Thank you Amy. I did some more research after I posted and talked to a few other people and learned about complex partial seizures. In the years that I have known him, he hasn't had this type of seizure so I wasn't familiar with it. 

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