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Last Saturday, I had a seizure while taking a nap on the couch. It was pretty "typical" type of nap seizure for me...or so I thought.
When I woke up, I was totally confused and thought it was about 10 years ago and that I was late for work. My wife had to calm me down for about 30 minutes constantly telling me what day, month and year it was. She had to tell me where I was at the time and why I was there. Pretty typical of when I have my nap seizures. That is where the familiarity stops.
It usually takes me anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to come back to a reasonably normal attitude and familiarity, mood, etc., etc. but not this time. I am just now starting to get back to my feisty self. ;-)
It has been very hard to describe. I have gone through many of the posts and familiar symptoms that have been listed in some other threads but they just do not describe the weird feelings that I have been having.
I have been feeling so..........not in touch. I do not feel like I am somewhere else just not in total reality. I know where I am, what time it is, etc. but everything is just not really real.
Getting out and doing some physical work helps speed up its demise but this time is different. I did a few hours of pulling dallisgrass (anyone who has done this knows this is a task!) and it helped a little bit.
Sometimes seizures put me into a mental state of being totally depressed to the point of danger but that is not the effect this time.
This is weird and hard to explain. Since my medicines, and seizures, give me short memory, I probably will not be able to describe it as well as the sorry way I am presently doing.
Anyway, I have spent hours and hours reading on the forum today just to kind of "keep in touch" with seizure reality.
Thanks to all on this forum for the insight. There is still much to be learned about epilepsy and seizures.
When I woke up, I was totally confused and thought it was about 10 years ago and that I was late for work. My wife had to calm me down for about 30 minutes constantly telling me what day, month and year it was. She had to tell me where I was at the time and why I was there. Pretty typical of when I have my nap seizures. That is where the familiarity stops.
It usually takes me anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour to come back to a reasonably normal attitude and familiarity, mood, etc., etc. but not this time. I am just now starting to get back to my feisty self. ;-)
It has been very hard to describe. I have gone through many of the posts and familiar symptoms that have been listed in some other threads but they just do not describe the weird feelings that I have been having.
I have been feeling so..........not in touch. I do not feel like I am somewhere else just not in total reality. I know where I am, what time it is, etc. but everything is just not really real.
Getting out and doing some physical work helps speed up its demise but this time is different. I did a few hours of pulling dallisgrass (anyone who has done this knows this is a task!) and it helped a little bit.
Sometimes seizures put me into a mental state of being totally depressed to the point of danger but that is not the effect this time.
This is weird and hard to explain. Since my medicines, and seizures, give me short memory, I probably will not be able to describe it as well as the sorry way I am presently doing.
Anyway, I have spent hours and hours reading on the forum today just to kind of "keep in touch" with seizure reality.
Thanks to all on this forum for the insight. There is still much to be learned about epilepsy and seizures.