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Small seizure at the eye doctor? What happened
Mon, 10/07/2019 - 12:45I just had an appointment at the eye doctor last week and after the assistants had me do some testing where I move my eyes to follow an object, I felt myself have an aura. My auras are typically a stomach feeling with uneasiness. I told the assistant that I have epilepsy.
When the doctor came in, he said he believed I had a small seizure. I asked if it was when I tried to follow the snowflake thingy and he said yes.
My question is, how did he know? Can they see my eyes looking different in a small seizure? I tried to record myself when I have auras and I can't see a difference. Also, when I saw the Epileptologist and he had me follow an object with my eyes, he and the Nurse Practitioner said they saw "extra eye movement" The eye doctor also said one eye was moving without the other. He says it could possibly be eye strain because of the great difference between my eyes or it is possible that eye strain is triggering a seizure.
Has anyone ever had a docor detect a seizure by looking at your eyes?
Comments
I'm not sure what the
Submitted by mlm on Wed, 2019-10-09 - 01:36
I'm not sure what the "snowflake thingy" is, but if it's a light it may trigger a photoparoxysmal response.Certain lights (i.e. strobe lights) can trigger a seizure.
There are all kinds of subtle
Submitted by Patriotrehab on Mon, 2019-10-07 - 17:46
There are all kinds of subtle changes that doctors are trained to detect in a neurological examination...that’s part of why they look at the eyes. I have “rapid eye blinking” during some of my focal impaired awareness seizures that occur during sleep. Seizures affect people differently and doctors know what to look for, whereas an untrained eye doesn’t always notice something like “extra eye movement”.