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What does a petit mal seizure feel like?

Sat, 11/11/2017 - 01:54
Can anyone describe what an absence seizure feels like? I've been wondering if they are something I experience. I'm 20 now but my entire life I would sometimes suddenly feel far away. And the only thing I could say to my family was that "everything is so big". I didn't know how else to describe what I was feeling. It's almost like I'm drifting from an open doorway into blackness. And everything I see looks far away but somehow huge. Based on what other forums have said what differs with mine is that im not totally unconscious, as others are with absence seizures. But I don't know what else this could be.

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there are partial seizures

Submitted by Amy Jo on Sat, 2017-11-11 - 04:48
there are partial seizures that can affect perception or feeling where a person retains awareness. with absence I just don’t think awareness is fully possible because they are generalized seizures. atypical absence has a less abrupt start and stop but still there’s no way to be there during the fully generalized part.

petite mal seizures would be

Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2017-11-11 - 13:38
petite mal seizures would be like you had a laps in time. partial seizures can look like  grand mal when they are seen by others since in  many of them the person having them look like they are day dreaming. 

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