Good Morning Everyone! 
I suffered my first grand mal seizure on Saturday June 7th in my living room in front of family and friends. I had bent down to get a pin out of my pants for my mother in law to hem them, when I stood back up I tried to talk. The only thing that came out of my mouth was a very loud groan (don’t know how else to describe it, but I was trying to talk and words didn’t come out, just some odd noise), and at that point I blacked out. My mother-in-law, husband and good friend saw it all happen. They said my face drooped, my eyes rolled into the back of my head, I fell and hit the coffee table and then basically bounced onto the floor. I bit my tongue so bad I had blood coming from my mouth and I had turned blue. They called 911 (obviously). By the time I finally woke up the firemen (first responders) had already come and gone and I woke up to two EMT's at my feet looking down on me telling me I had a seizure. I started crying, then they walked me out to the ambulance, all I remember is seeing my daughter sobbing by the swing set (she is 7) while being consoled by my good friend. We went to the hospital. Blood work and CT came up clean. I had my 48 hour EEG last week (6/17/14) and my MRI is this Saturday (6/28).
I believe I have had other "smaller" seizures since then but have been able to control them to the point where I don’t completely black out and lose control. Basically, I go to talk. And I get that same feeling I had last time, I can't get the words out. I feel that if I "force" them out of my mouth and try to talk that I will basically short circuit my brain and I will collapse again.
I am a 33 year old, I work full time, proud mama of 5 children (2 are my step children and 3 are mine) and a doting husband that is VERY worried about his wife. I don't have any answers at this point from any doctors, I don't see my new neurologist until 7/9 (the first guy I saw was a complete quack at some horrible clinic). They did not put me on any medications until I had my EEG & MRI. There is no family history of seizures or epilepsy.
Thanks everyone for reading!
I suffered my first grand mal seizure on Saturday June 7th in my living room in front of family and friends. I had bent down to get a pin out of my pants for my mother in law to hem them, when I stood back up I tried to talk. The only thing that came out of my mouth was a very loud groan (don’t know how else to describe it, but I was trying to talk and words didn’t come out, just some odd noise), and at that point I blacked out. My mother-in-law, husband and good friend saw it all happen. They said my face drooped, my eyes rolled into the back of my head, I fell and hit the coffee table and then basically bounced onto the floor. I bit my tongue so bad I had blood coming from my mouth and I had turned blue. They called 911 (obviously). By the time I finally woke up the firemen (first responders) had already come and gone and I woke up to two EMT's at my feet looking down on me telling me I had a seizure. I started crying, then they walked me out to the ambulance, all I remember is seeing my daughter sobbing by the swing set (she is 7) while being consoled by my good friend. We went to the hospital. Blood work and CT came up clean. I had my 48 hour EEG last week (6/17/14) and my MRI is this Saturday (6/28).
I believe I have had other "smaller" seizures since then but have been able to control them to the point where I don’t completely black out and lose control. Basically, I go to talk. And I get that same feeling I had last time, I can't get the words out. I feel that if I "force" them out of my mouth and try to talk that I will basically short circuit my brain and I will collapse again.
I am a 33 year old, I work full time, proud mama of 5 children (2 are my step children and 3 are mine) and a doting husband that is VERY worried about his wife. I don't have any answers at this point from any doctors, I don't see my new neurologist until 7/9 (the first guy I saw was a complete quack at some horrible clinic). They did not put me on any medications until I had my EEG & MRI. There is no family history of seizures or epilepsy.
Thanks everyone for reading!
