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What do you feel?

Sat, 12/24/2005 - 12:21
I am very sorry to ask, and I apologise if this is too personal. I would just like to ask what do you actually feel during a seizure. How do you know when you have a seizure - I hear that epileptics can smell rotten eggs, or burnt rubber. Are you concious during a seizure, and do you realise that you are having one. Thank you, from Amrou

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I saw my friend have one a

Submitted by DixieMoo on Thu, 2018-06-28 - 19:42
I saw my friend have one a year ago and it was the scariest thing I ever seen, if someone ever stutters on front of me I panic thinking their goning to have a seizure, but when I asked him what does he feel when he’s having one he told me, he can first( not always) taste steel in his mouth ( like he’s sucking on a spoon) but he says when he going into the seizure it feels like he’s getting shocked in his brain but the shock is going through his body. His suizure that day lasted 20 minutes before he came out of it. I’ve never seen anything like that before and to be honest I didn’t know what was happening, he just stopped mid conversation and started staring at me and he pointed so I thought he was pointing at something on my wall but then he started twitching and moving his hand real fast so I put him on his side and called my mother to ring an ambulance. He wouldn’t go in it and I found out later that he doesn’t take medication for it and has about 4 seizures a weeks. I worry about him at lot we fell out because he wouldn’t take anything for it and I was too scared too see it happen again. 

Im awake i feel like im

Submitted by sswisher77 on Sun, 2018-10-28 - 19:39
Im awake i feel like im falling asleep and then my legs and arms lose control im 41 the first time i had one i was in kindergarten i passed all the way out i got weird feeling like im falling

I have had three seizures in

Submitted by OhTaliBoy on Thu, 2019-04-04 - 06:57
I have had three seizures in my life. Two of them I don't remember as they happened when I was under 10 and my entire childhood is gone. The latest one happened three days ago. I was brushing my teeth when I felt light headed. I finished what I was doing, and as I was walking back to my bedroom I felt my left are starting to shake and tingle. I made it to my bed and almost immediately collapsed on to it. I curled and covered myself with blankets as at this point I was freezing. I felt so tired. Unbelievably tired. My whole body felt heavy, like I was encased in concrete. I started to shake harder, like when you shiver really hard from being way too cold. I vomited a lot, and if it wasn't for my boyfriend knowing what to do I would probably not be alive. I woke up 13 hours later in the hospital, intubated. They told me that they don't know what happened, but that I had respiratory arrest because of complications from Pneumonia. They didn't seem to believe me when I told them about the seizure, but they did offer a referral to a Neurologist. So to answer your questions one at a time."What do you actually feel during a seizure?": I felt tingling, and short of breath. I felt very cold and completely unable to move/speak."How do you know when you have a seizure?": I didn't know that I was going to have a seizure, but I knew something was going to happen and very very soon."I hear that epileptics can smell rotten eggs, or burnt rubber.": I did not."Are you concious during a seizure.": I felt everything. I was completely aware for the seizure, but I lost consciousness before the paramedics arrived. "Do you realise that you are having one?": I did not, and it wasn't until I revisited the event over and over that I realised, 'Wait a minute, that was a seizure.' I had even forgotten that I had them in the past for so long that my boyfriend of three years didn't know. 

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