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petit-mal to grand-mal????complex? WHAT IS IT
Wed, 11/17/2004 - 23:39hi all .. i am knew to the site. i am a nursing student so i should know what is going on with myself, but i do not. For 9 mo. i have been having these brain tingles that last for 10-60 sec. first let me explain these odd tingles,,,the tingles are in my brain, all over and last for a few sec. to a min., they are light feeling with more intense feeling as they go, then feel as if they are getting smaller in my brain until it ends.. odd. i have gone for a week without one but as many as 10 in a day. i have NOT seen a dr yet.. the last 2 mo. have been worse, more migraines, more intese brain tingles, sometimes i get real sweaty. i have had 2 today...i hit a car today in the drive threw. then later i had one while watching tv and think i went out??? i had to hold on and felt my body tense up and i then came back to reality, sort of. i always get confused after and before. my husband came home and saw my lip was swollen, well my whole mouth was bitten up, (tongue, cheeks, bottom lip). COULD I HAVE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS AND NOT KNOW IT???? please someone write back on this, i am so very upsest and scared. thanks for all your time.
RE: petit-mal to grand-mal????complex? WHAT IS IT
Submitted by Clunk1234567 on Mon, 2004-11-15 - 06:48
Please be warned, people with epilepsy are barred from many jobs, including nursing in many, many places.
See the doctor now, it isn't the epilepsy that is the main concern here, the main concern has to be removing the possibility of there being a serious underlying medical condition, it's the first port of call with everyone having just started seizures.
It is the most important part of epilepsy treatment.
Epilepsy Interferes with everything that the brain controls, and the tingling sensation could be the aura of a seizure, like some have a facial tick, or smell burning, or it could be the seizure itself. The only real way of knowing is if you put your dome in the hands of the neurologist. Epilepsy is a funny thing in that it looks like nothing else on earth, or like every other illnes. If epilepsy gives you absences and you remove the word epilepsy, you could just be daydreaming. If your epilepsy makes you shake a little, remove the epilepsy and it could be one of a million illnesses. It sounds like epilepsy, and it feels like epilepsy. You don't have the epilepsy label yet though, you must go to the doctor now, just to eliminate other labels.
Please be warned, people with epilepsy are barred from many jobs, including nursing in many, many places.
See the doctor now, it isn't the epilepsy that is the main concern here, the main concern has to be removing the possibility of there being a serious underlying medical condition, it's the first port of call with everyone having just started seizures.
It is the most important part of epilepsy treatment.
Epilepsy Interferes with everything that the brain controls, and the tingling sensation could be the aura of a seizure, like some have a facial tick, or smell burning, or it could be the seizure itself. The only real way of knowing is if you put your dome in the hands of the neurologist. Epilepsy is a funny thing in that it looks like nothing else on earth, or like every other illnes. If epilepsy gives you absences and you remove the word epilepsy, you could just be daydreaming. If your epilepsy makes you shake a little, remove the epilepsy and it could be one of a million illnesses. It sounds like epilepsy, and it feels like epilepsy. You don't have the epilepsy label yet though, you must go to the doctor now, just to eliminate other labels.