Do you get admitted or discharged?

[Wobblez]

When you call an ambulance or get taken to hospital after seizures, do you get discharged after a few hours? At what point do they decide to keep you in? In Australia, we have such a terrible hospital system, they are always fighting for beds. I've been parked on a trolley in the isles for 4 hours once. They won't keep you in unless it's absolutely necessary.

 

[JLogefeil]

In the past before I would get discharged like after a couple hours. But since I moved to California I have been life flighted out to different hospitals. Then the last seizure I had they interbated me and I was in the ICU for about a day then they life flighted me to a different hospital an I stayed in the hospital there in the ICU for another day then the took out the tube and I stayed another day and I felt as though I didn't need to stay anymore so I asked to be discharged and after pulling teeth with the hospital I finally got to be able to go. I don't know how long you have to stay in the hospital before you get discharged and the only way I think that they will keep you is of they have you too much meds to we're they need to watch you, and or there were complications after you had a seizure.

 

[Nakamova]

After the first one I was kept overnight in the hospital because I had a second seizure in the ER, and no history of epilepsy.

Since then though, I've only gone to the ER because my friends were over-anxious after a t-c, or because there was worry about an injury. And always been discharged quickly.

 

[Wobblez]

Urrrgghhh...it always feels like a bit of a waste of time. Can they tell when the seizure is over when we can't?

 

[triller]

the first one they kept me overnight # 2&3 let me go after checking every thing out.

 

[LJ-Bain]

I usually just get discharged over a few hours. I've been admitted about 4 or 5 times over the years though.
First time I was 2 weeks in the hospital because they couldn't figure me out and it was my first time presenting.
Then over the years they would admit me to get a neurologist to look at me in the morning
and sometimes they admit me when they want to take a stab at it and try to figure me out again.
I present like a stroke so it always gets me on top of the triage at least! Yeah! Benefits!
I have been woken at 5 a.m. before and told to go home. I thought they probably needed the bed in that case.
I spent 3 days in the emerg hallway before so I know what you mean.
I don't know if they can tell if the seizure is over and we can't unless you're at a place that has a neurological wing or have you hooked up to special monitoring devices.

 

[CQ:)]

The 1st time I was taken to hospital for my seizures the drs were still trying to find out what was wrong when I had a TC seizure & was kept in hospital overnight. The drs at the hospital had also arranged an appt for me to see a neurologist who I had to see just after I was let out of hospital.
The 2nd time I was only in hospital for about 2 or 3 hours, the nurse looking after me told me they needed the bed.
The 3rd time I woke up in hospital at 12:00pm & think I was released about 3:00pm.

 

[Maidenminx]

The only seizure I was sent to hospital for I spent hours in the hall ( I too am an aussie), then got a bed in emergency. After a CT scan they told me I, had an alcohol induced seizure (though I hadn't drunk in about a week) and all but laughed off my suggestion that it could have been the 3 or 4 energy drinks a day I had been drinking for about 6 weeks before that...

I didn't go to hospital for my second seizure, I just slept.

 

[Electra]

I have been in a hall waiting for a bed so my husband tells me. Overnight if I don't wake up after tonic clonic. A few hours if not so bad.