A life spent managing seizures
By REBECCA PALMER - The Dominion PostThink of an epileptic seizure and you may well picture someone unconscious on the floor, jerking and shaking.
But seizures don't come in one shape and size. For most of her life, Mandy Smale has regularly had complex partial seizures - as many as one a week.
You wouldn't necessarily know it by looking at her.
"To other people, it would often look like I was daydreaming," she says.
"I would fidget, sometimes with my fingers. I tend to say to whoever is next to me that I'm going to have a seizure, but when I go to say it, I lose the words."
In a complex partial seizure, a person's consciousness is altered or impaired and they can look like they are sleepwalking or drunk. They are unaware of what they are doing or what is going on around them.
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As for me... I had one hell of a headache last night... so you got lucky ... you get nothing from me.... yahoo...
3 comments:
I am on medication to control my seizures. I have had episodes in a crowd and no one noticed. I remain aware of what is around me, I can not speak or convey any communication and generally lasts about 1 minute or less. Dilantin on a regular 400mg dosage controls my seizures.
I forgot to mention, this is called a petite-maul seizure caused by head injury I suffered when I was 15 almost 16 and my first episode was when I was 26
I was found to be allergic to dilatation and a different med for seizures... so far I have been seizure free....
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