eyes rolled up and to the R?

[elizzza811]

Does this mean my seizure began on the R-side of my brain? And is it true that the R side of the brain controls the L side of the body?

I ask because I know that just prior to this seizure (in which my eyes rolled up and to the R), I had just experienced another seizure in which (mid-conversation) I'd dropped the phone I'd been holding in my L hand, yet burned some R-handed fingers with a cigarette I'd been holding (and continued to hold onto throughout the duration of the seizure). I somehow did not feel my R fingers burning though? And I did not drop the cigarette as I'd dropped the phone?

Also, I know the article below deals with pupil size mostly (which I also have problems with - mine are always pinpoint now), but I ran across this article in my attempt to research 'eye rolling'. The whole article is pretty neat, but scroll down to 'What Channel Are You Tuned To?' Apparently we move our eyes and 'look' in certain directions when we're recalling a picture, a sound, a feeling, talking to oneself, even lying...pretty neat article! And actually, if you arrow back or forward to the next page there are other signals and gestures that can be used as 'indications' of what's going on in a person's head and intention. Pretty neat!

Eye Signals:
http://westsidetoastmasters.com/resources/book_of_body_language/chap8.html

 

[Nakamova]

The right side of the brain controls muscles on the left side of the body and the left side of the brain controls muscles on the right side of the body. But since the eyes don't move independently of one another (ideally) it would be tough to determine a left or right point-of-origin for seizure-based eye movement. The three different cranial nerves that carry signals from the brain to control eye muscles are paired -- that is, they have both left and right sheaths originating in the brainstem and traveling more-or-less along the center of the brain -- so for eye movement, a lateral seizure focus isn't relevant.

 

[elizzza811]

Thanks for the info...that's what I thought...R brain controls L body, L brain controls R body. I still tend to believe my seizure began on the R side of my brain though (and likely spread) since I dropped the phone yet continued to hold onto my cigarette. I also tend to believe my seizures begin on the R side of my brain because, as crazy as this sounds, my hair is greying more at my R temple than my left.