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Possible seizure?
Sun, 06/08/2014 - 11:26Hey everyone,
I was eating lunch with friends yesterday and my vision started going black (kind of looked like those composition notebooks)--my hearing went too, and I almost lost consciousness. I vomited and came back almost immediately, thoug it was pretty confused still. Talking to them afterward, they said I was just staring blankly into space and my head was kind of bobbing and I was clammy--it only lasted 3-4 minutes. They called 911, but the ER doctor said it was dehydration and sent me home with orders to take it easy and follow up with my pcp. My blood pressure, glucose, and EKG were all fine.
i called my mom to give her the heads up, and she said my symptoms almost perfectly matched from when I had seizures as a kid (I was about 8 then, I'm 30 now), which got me thinking.
Does this sound like it could be a seizure to you?
You posted things that could
Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2014-06-10 - 12:35
You posted things that could be in several different types of seizures. If your Mom said you had those issues when you had seizures when you were young then they might be seizures. A question would be how long have you gone without a seizure and are you still taking medications? If you are not on medications you need to check with your doctor and tell him what happened and that yo uhad seizures when you were young. As the body grows it also changes so you might need medications to control your seizures again. If you are 30 then there are newer medications out today that can control seizures with fewer side effects