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please help me, i dont know if i had a seizure or not
Sat, 08/05/2017 - 12:51Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth
today is 8/5/17, and on 8/3/17 I think i had a seizure. I was sitting in my lunch table during school when I started depersonalizing. It can happen occasionally due to my depression, but this time it felt stranger. I felt this eletric aura around my body, my limbs were tingling but i couldnt feel them, I was staring off, I couldn't comprehend anything anybody was saying to me, I couldnt for coherent sentences. My mind felt clouded and all the sounds in the room felt distant and muffled. And when i came out of it, I felt tired and nauseuous but ultimately went on with my day. When i spoke to my mom later about it (used to be an occupational therapist and caretaker for disabled people) she said it sounded like a seizure. I dont know if i should see a neurologist or not. Please help!
(I don't know if the first
Submitted by Nancy L on Mon, 2017-08-07 - 15:25
(I don't know if the first comment showed up, so sorry for the repeat if it did). You should definitely see a neurologist, more specifically an Epileptologist. It sounds like you did have a seizure. One type of my seizures involves the limbs tingling and yet I can't really feel them. It's a weird feeling that's hard to explain, but I think you explained it well. The comprehension issues also make me think you might have had a seizure. Not only do I have seizures, so does my nephew, and I was a special education teacher, so am aware that seizures don't always fit the mold of what people think they should be/ look like. However, my basic EEGs don't show any indication that I have epilepsy, even though I am conscious during my seizures. One type of seizure of I have is Simple Partial Motor seizures, I contort in pain, and shake violently. The doctors trusted me and agreed that I had seizures. I have to be hooked up and sleep-deprived for anything to show up on my EEGs. In a video EEG when I'm in the hospital and taken off of my meds, I have tonic-clonic seizures. Again, SEE AN EPILEPTOLOGIST.