Is this an improvement?

[valeriedl]

When I have seizures I wouldn't know it was coming on or when I was having it. I would just compelety black out and after a few minutes I would "wake up". Usually I didn't even know that I had one unless there was someone there to see me having it and tell me that I had a seizure. Some times my husband would beable to tell when I was going to have one because he said I'd have a "look" on my face or I wouldn't be doing things right, but I had no idea these things were happening to me.

However recently I notice that I'm feeling weird before it is coming on and I'm awake during the seizure. I had one this morning while I was on the phone with my grandma. I was starting to feel weird, don't really know how to describe it but I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. Then I was trying to talk with her. I think I could understand what she was saying but when she would ask me questions I just couldn't think of the answer or the right words to say. I know that I was saying things but I don't know if it was actual words or not.

She stayed on the phone with my while my grandpap came over from next door and stayed with me until I came out of it compeletly. It lasted probably 10 minutes from the wierd feelings till I was normal again.

I also had a grand mal a little over a month ago. I didn't know it was coming on and I was blacked out for a few minutes but after that I did become aware that I was having the seizure. I knew I was laying on the ground and couldn't move then I was trying to talk but I was doing the same thing that I described above.

Could this be an improvement in the epilepsy and the severity of the seizures?

[epileric]

I would see it as an improvement.

When I was younger my head used to be pulled to the side during some of my seizures but I remembered it happening very clearly. That eventually stopped (the headpulling, not seizures) but one day 20 or 30 years later I had as seizure where a few hours afterwards I thought my head might have been pulled again. I told my mom & she said that it never stopped, I just stopped being aware of them.

I've always considered more memory or awareness to be an improvement.
Very cool!