am I still having seizures?

[serendipity324]

i imagine i could go thru threads or may e even have and seen these questions and their answers....but i am new at all this and get kinda lost so i figured I'd just start a new one..hope ya don't mind.
can i be have different kinds/types of seizures? can i still be having diffenret ones while on meds? I had the grand mals (tonic clonic I think they are called now) but I swear there are other "things" going on too. I don't remeber what happened before the first ones..but apparently I told my daughter in the hospital that I felt weird, not right so I exited out of things on my work computer in case something happened. then i had the first grand mal. afew times since then, I have had these "things" happen, I started feeling icky, nauseous kinda, my head starts to feel heavy and foggy, then almost panicky...the one time was in my bedroom, while "it" was happening I "knew" inside somewhere I needed to call out for my husband, but I couldn't make myself do it, so I laid in the middle of the bed in case anything happened anspd waited it out..afterwards my head hurt, I was shaky & teary, cold. it has happened like that a few times since at different times.. I just sit my butt down and wait it out. are these seizures maybe? different ones or would they have been grand mal if I wasn't on meds? or are they different ones? is my wondering/pacing aimlessly around the house that I apparently do part of this? I do a few strange things, but I ask cause some people (my boss, my mom, some friends) think that since I'm on meds I shouldn't be having any seizures at all.
I'm just trying to figure things out and keep track of things for the doctor, but wonder if I shouldn't just ignore some things.
thanks. and sorry for the novella.

 

[valeriedl]

There are several different types of seizures and yes you can have more than one type. I had this saved on my computer that I copied from another thread so I would know the differences between them - so thanks for who ever posted it.

Try to keep track of anything that you might think is a seizure, all the things that you mentioned. This could help your dr with things.

Yes you can still have seizures while on meds, I do.

Hope it helps you.



I Types of convulsive disorders

A. Ideopathic
- cause unknown; epilepsy
- most epilepsy classes fall under this category

B. Symptomatic
- trauma, metabolic disorders, fever, brain tumors
- metabolic alkalosis, hypokalemia (low potassium), water intoxication, hypoxia, pyridoxine (vitamin B6) deficiency, phenylketonuria, uremia, hypocalcemia (low calcium), hypoglycemia
- drugs: camphor (used as a form of induced seizure for psychoses, popular in the 1930s along with lobotomies) , picrotoxin, penicillin (over 10 million unit doses), withdrawal from sedative hypnotics, alcohol, anticonvulsants

II. International Classification of Epilepsy
No more the mere “Grand Mal” and “Petit Mal” classifications for this disease state! Adapted from the report from the Commission on Classification and Terminology of the International League Against Epilepsy, 1981 and 1989 (they’re about due to reconvene and create a few dozen more categories–stay tuned!)


A. Partial Seizures

1. Simple (no impairment of consciousness)
a. motor symptoms (formerly “Jacksonian”)
focal motor symptoms begin in one hand or foot and "march up" the extremity, or spread similarly from a corner of the mouth
b. sensory (hallucinations of sight, sound, taste); tingling
c. autonomic
d. psychic – personality changes

2. Complex (impaired consciousness)
a. cognitive impairment, confusion
attacks of impairment of consciousness with amnesia; sometimes a "deja vu" sensation is felt at the onset of the seizure; often associated with semi purposeful movements of the arms or legs
b. affective (bizarre behavioral effect)
c. psychosensory – repetition, purposeless behaviors
d. compound (tonic, clonic, tonic-clonic)


B. Partial Seizures, secondarily generalized

1. unilateral seizures

2. predominantly unilateral seizures
a. simple partial evolving to generalized tonic-clonic
b. complex partial evolving to generalized tonic-clonic
c. simple evolving to complex, then on to generalized tonic-clonic


C. Generalized seizures (Convulsive or nonconvulsive)
widespread involvement of both cerebral hemispheres

1. tonic-clonic
formerly GRAND MAL
a. loss of consciousness
b. depression of body functions
c. muscle contractions lasting 1-5 minutes

2. tonic
sustained contractions of large muscle groups

3. clonic
various dysrhythmic contractions in the body

4. myoclonic
unaltered consciousness, isolated clonic contractions

5. absence
formerly called PETIT MAL
brief loss of consciousness for a few seconds, no confusion, EEG shows 3/second spike wave patterns; associated with flickering of the eyelids and mild twitching of the mouth; common form of epilepsy in children

6. atonic
head drop or falling down symptoms


D. Localization or focal


E. Generalized epilepsy–includes but is not limited to:

1. benign neonatal convulsion

2. childhood absence

3. West syndrome (infantile spasms)

4. myoclonic encephalopathy

5. Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

6. SMEI- severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy


F. Special syndromes–febrile seizures


G. Unclassified–withdrawal of anticonvulsants

 

[acpollard2010]

wow i have almost every type of seizure listed up there since i was 16 it has gotten worse overtime.diagnosis was generalized but i get everything prolly why i dont remember anything 30 plus concussions and a lot of broken bones.think positive and raise awareness so we dont get treated the way some of us do like were gonna kill em or something ignorance!!!

 

[valeriedl]

wow i have almost every type of seizure listed up there since i was 16 it has gotten worse overtime.diagnosis was generalized but i get everything prolly why i dont remember anything 30 plus concussions and a lot of broken bones.think positive and raise awareness so we dont get treated the way some of us do like were gonna kill em or something ignorance!!!

I never realized that there were more than two types until I saw this. I thought that one was a grand mal, where you shook, and the other was when you just blacked out for a few minutes - never knew what that type was called though. I think I've had just about every type too.