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What do you remember after a seizure

missmariann3
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Yesterday I planted a hibiscus in my garden. there is a kind that makes it thru the winter here. then I also had a rose bush to plant. I remember asking my husband to plant the rose bush as i didn't have the energy, even though I like to do all the garden myself. He started to dig, and I said I think I better sit down. the next thing I remember is it was 10:30pm and my shoulder was sore. He said I had been slurring my words, so he brought me inside to bed. Must have had some kind of seizure? After a seizure I don't remember anything. How about you?
Mariann

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MichelleN

Remember what? The people who've been around me when I have the seizures say that a big reason they can tell is because I can't figure out why they change the conversation when they had just asked if I was ok.

I don't even have the petite very often so I don't have a good idea of what happens unless my cats there to tell me that I had one or some one else tells me I blanked out. When I'm sitting playing Solitaire there isn't much change to notice them for.

Michelle

missmariann3

Michelle-
the bigger the seizure, the longer I don't remember what is going on. sometimes it feels like a blackout for several hours, and I wake up in a different place----like the ER.
Mariann

Hughbetcha

From what I understand about seizures, it isn't possible to remember anything about the seizure itself. I think that part of the conscious brain shuts off.

Mark

MichelleN

The problem with knowing what goes on around a seizure is I don't always know what's going on when I don't have one.

It's very rare as far as I know that I have grand mals and they are always when I have so much overwhelming me that I'm lucky if I remember that I'm supposed to swallow food.

With the petite if I'm around someone I just can't figure out why they changed what we were talking about. Titus tells me, but when I'm just with him there isn't much to remember.

Michelle

missmariann3

Mark-
I think you are right. My husband says I fell to my knees and then he ran over and got me before I hit the cement.
I'm glad I don't remember.
Mariann

missmariann3

Michelle-
I don't think you miss much. I've had lots of seizures.
Mariann

Joey_sMom

Actually, depending upon the type of seizure, you could be aware of it and remember it, or not. Watch this youtube video.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDccChHrgRA

Vicky
Caregiver

Thazooma

I don't mean to change the subject but it is in a way related. We are two months into this E and I have been worried about my husband having seizures. In the hospital the doctors comment that his shaking was seizure activity. Has anyone else been told this?

MichelleN

Mariann, when I have the petite seizures I blank out for less than a minute, but the longer ones I miss more not that I know. With the petite it's like my brain is rebooting except the computers come back better.

The worst grand mal I've had that I have any idea I had one I only have any idea because I was 3 feet from where I was and under my bed covered in bruises.

Michelle

Joey_sMom

Thazooma - My son, who had never had a seizure prior to encephalitis, now has refractory epilepsy. Some people that have had encephalitis never had a single seizure, and still others had a limited number of seizures while ill and have not had a seizure since. Unfortunately it is difficult to tell which category your husband will fall into. Is he taking seizure medication?

Vicky
Caregiver

Hughbetcha

Thank you, I should clarify my earlier remarks. What I meant was that the Grand Mal variety are the ones that cannot be remembered by the sufferer. The petit (or partial) ones occur without loss of consciousness.

My parents told me that I had a grand mal when I got sick with e., and sure enough, I've absolutely no recollection of it.

Mark

missmariann3

I remember Joey's seizure when you were building his house.
Mariann

missmariann3

thank you for the link on you tube Vicky.
others- watch it.
Mariann

missmariann3

I have only had one gran mal.
the others were complex partial.
I guess I'm fortunate not to remember.
thanks for the replies.
Mariann

Joey_sMom

Joey has had a dramatic increase in seizures this past week that we have not been able to determine a cause for. It started with a series of seizures that went on for 2 hours before we were able to stop them and he has seized every day since so he is having a very difficult time recovering. We plan to contact his neurologist on Monday as he does not seem to be getting ill, has not missed any doses of medication and his implant seems to be functioning (all past causes for increased seizures).

Vicky
Caregiver

missmariann3

i hope things go well.
Mariann

MichelleN

I hope you get help soon Vicky.

Mariann, most of my seizures are petite so I don't even know I've had them I just assume I'm not understanding things until someone tells me I had one. Many people don't notice the petite even when Titus tells me I'm going to have one.

Michelle

missmariann3

with me , the falling down and slurred speech clues them in.
Mariann

MichelleN

My speech is slurred too often for that to be a signal and I rarely fall when people are around. If I get dizzy I go sit down or to bed so I'm less likely to fall. The only grand mals we're pretty sure I had I was alone after my minor surgery and it was pretty obvious when I was under the bed 3 feet from where I had been.

Michelle

missmariann3

Ativan IV was what they gave me to stop the siezures. When it wore off, I still had seizure problems though.
Mariann

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