elizzza811
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I think I posted some details already in another thread, so sorry for the repetition, but anyway...
Last Wednesday I woke up confused again, not knowing what day it was or what I was supposed to be doing. It took me a few minutes to get grounded, so I definitely suspected having a seizure in my sleep and was hoping for another full-blown partial (funny taste in my mouth, followed by a dizzy spell, followed by confusion) so that I could have my neighbor run me to the lab for my prolactin level blood test.
Well, probably within an hour I had one, called my neighbor, and he gave me a ride to the lab in his car. Apparently I had more seizures in the car...couldn't remember if I'd brought my lab slip (and even looking head-on at it in my purse wasn't 'registering')...kept asking him who he was and where we were going (even though I'd called him minutes before in the first place and asked him to give me the ride to the lab).
What really scares me though is that I just learned that during this particular seizure I actually put both arms out in front of me and tightly clenched both fists. I'm not sure if this occurred during the seizure coming or going to the lab, but I definitely seemed to be fighting it? Is this still considered a partial??? Does this indicate a grand mal is on its way? They definitely seem to be worsening.
Anyway, when we got home from the lab, my daughter called me about that morning's seizures, and during our phone conversation I had yet another and dropped the phone. It must have lasted a while this time because she called back and the line was still busy, so she got worried and called my next-door neighbor to come check in on me to find out why I'd dropped the phone.
When my neighbor arrived I was still very much 'out of it'. She called the ambulance and I was behaving strangely even when the paramedics arrived. She said I wasn't really answering their questions appropriately...I had my mind on other more important things, like putting stamps on my bills, so I was puttering around looking for stamps instead of walking outside to the ambulance...and they even asked her if I was always like this?...I sure hope not!
Thinking back, when the 'phone seizure' occurred, I had been writing bills out just prior to my daughter's call, and my brain pretty much tried to resume the task at hand as if nothing had occurred? Also, I burned some pretty significant holes in my hand with the cigarette I'd been smoking during the phone seizures, and I felt no pain whatsoever until all the seizures had ended?
Anyway, my neighbor counted at least 5 seizures that day (Wednesday, 3/16/2011), and I had more in the ambulance, one in which I rolled my eyes up and to the right. Doesn't eye rolling suggest the direction of the 'seizure focus'? How does that work anyway?
Last Wednesday I woke up confused again, not knowing what day it was or what I was supposed to be doing. It took me a few minutes to get grounded, so I definitely suspected having a seizure in my sleep and was hoping for another full-blown partial (funny taste in my mouth, followed by a dizzy spell, followed by confusion) so that I could have my neighbor run me to the lab for my prolactin level blood test.
Well, probably within an hour I had one, called my neighbor, and he gave me a ride to the lab in his car. Apparently I had more seizures in the car...couldn't remember if I'd brought my lab slip (and even looking head-on at it in my purse wasn't 'registering')...kept asking him who he was and where we were going (even though I'd called him minutes before in the first place and asked him to give me the ride to the lab).
What really scares me though is that I just learned that during this particular seizure I actually put both arms out in front of me and tightly clenched both fists. I'm not sure if this occurred during the seizure coming or going to the lab, but I definitely seemed to be fighting it? Is this still considered a partial??? Does this indicate a grand mal is on its way? They definitely seem to be worsening.
Anyway, when we got home from the lab, my daughter called me about that morning's seizures, and during our phone conversation I had yet another and dropped the phone. It must have lasted a while this time because she called back and the line was still busy, so she got worried and called my next-door neighbor to come check in on me to find out why I'd dropped the phone.
When my neighbor arrived I was still very much 'out of it'. She called the ambulance and I was behaving strangely even when the paramedics arrived. She said I wasn't really answering their questions appropriately...I had my mind on other more important things, like putting stamps on my bills, so I was puttering around looking for stamps instead of walking outside to the ambulance...and they even asked her if I was always like this?...I sure hope not!
Thinking back, when the 'phone seizure' occurred, I had been writing bills out just prior to my daughter's call, and my brain pretty much tried to resume the task at hand as if nothing had occurred? Also, I burned some pretty significant holes in my hand with the cigarette I'd been smoking during the phone seizures, and I felt no pain whatsoever until all the seizures had ended?
Anyway, my neighbor counted at least 5 seizures that day (Wednesday, 3/16/2011), and I had more in the ambulance, one in which I rolled my eyes up and to the right. Doesn't eye rolling suggest the direction of the 'seizure focus'? How does that work anyway?
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