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Forgetting or not knowing?
Sat, 03/21/2015 - 15:19Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
A family member of mine recently had a seizure and after she woke up, she told me and her parents she didn't have a seizure. She was convinced. She said, "I know when it happens and it just didn't happen" yet she was on the floor and her mother and I were standing around her. Is this normal?
there were times I had a
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2015-03-22 - 10:29
there were times I had a seizure and heard my brother telling Mom I was having a spaz attack. All I knew was that I was on th bed and they were next to it looking down at me. This was orior to being diagnosed with epilepsy and prior to having my grand mal seizure. What they saw was a focal motor seizure that generalized. Larry and Mom thought I had been pulling a stunt on them but it was a real seizure. Just as the muscle jerks and the times they thought I was day dreaming...I would deny that I was day dreaming and some of the jerking because I thought the jerking muscle was from over working since I had been digging and laying out a garden. The day dreaming was seizures but they didn't know it mainly because they askes a question and my answer came out about half a minute later.denial is what a lot of people do and that is mainly because of the stigma associated with epilepsy.