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Could I Have Seizures and Not Know About It?

Sun, 12/04/2016 - 18:03
The other morning I woke up to my alarm clock. I put it in the kitchen so I had to walk across the house and through a door to turn it off. I make it to my phone and when I look at the touch screen to turn it off all I see is the swirl of the dots. I keep thinking I am turning the phone off but the alar keeps going off. The next thing I know I am lying on the floor pounding on it, not turning the alarm off. It was like if I did not hear the sound of my alarm I would have just woke up on the floor later and not noticed anything weird happened. Which has happened to me maybe a half dozen times, like I would be outside and get up thinking I tripped but not remembering if I did, or that a goat knocked me down but wasn't really sure. My oldest kid constantly tells me I stare off I space and ignore her. They say I stare and ignore them for what seems like a few minutes. I have always shrugged it of as my only taking a second to respond to them saying my name and that they need to be more patient. This has been going on for as long as they can remember, like five years. Could the two things be relaited? I talked to a friend and they told me not to go to a doctor because if the doctor does not diagnose me with something else I will loose my drivers license. They also said I am over reacting and probably just tripped because I walked through the house in the dark and was tired, or at the worst I just was dizzy from standing up out of bed. I do not have many friends and always feel awkward I public so I stay home most of the time I do not have to, so my closest friend does not live close to me I am going to try to make a doctor appointment for later this week even though my practically only friend says I should not, my oldest kid said it would be good because I a embarrassing when I am weird and stare. On one hand I am really scared I might have something wrong with me, I the other hand it would make a lot of weird events in my life make more sense.

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