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Crazy Ride

Wed, 08/29/2018 - 23:03
This has taken me forever to write. Mainly because it still scares me to admit what happened, and what still may happen to me. I was in college when my first seizure occurred. Freshman year to be exact. Woke up to blood on my sweatshirt and I thought “Wow that’s weird” and noticed my tongue hurt really bad. Went to the bathroom, puked, and noticed my tongue looked like it was bitten. I freaked out. I knew what had happened to myself, but I was scared and confused. I called my mom crying, “I think I had a seizure mom” but of course she was like your fine. I never told a doctor about it and continued on with my life. The following year I was with friends hiking for the day and got back to the dorms. We all took a nap in the living room. I remember waking up, going to the bathroom, and came back to fall back asleep since everyone else was still napping. The next thing I know I’m being woken up to the EMS and a stretcher. I freaked out. Another seizure. All my MRIs were good. “Sweet everything is fine!” I kept telling myself. Next thing was doing that EEG test and the blinking lights for epilepsy. Passed all those too. My brain seemed fine. So why did I have two seizures? My neurologist never gave me a solid answer as to why besides it’s nocturnal seizures and could be due to stress. I was living in anxiety after all this, which probably didn’t help with stress, which may lead to seizures I suppose. Roughly a year after that I had yet another seizure. This time at my parents when i woke up for the day and went to the bathroom. My mom heard me scream ( I don’t remember this at all ) and of course she called 911. I woke up and felt like I was sleeping besides a pounding headache. After this point my neurologist told my parents no need to call 911 after each one hahaha. That was 2 years ago, and so far I’m seizure free. THANK GOODNESS. I’m still in fear and get paranoid that I’ll have one. Will that ever go away? I’m scared my neurologist will tell me it’s time to start slowly coming off my meds.

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