Facial grimace anyone?

[LJ-Bain]

I have never heard anyone else mention a facial grimace or hemifacial spasm associated with their seizures?
Is there anybody else who gets this?
Anything that involves their face that remains with them until they recover? Or any kind of facial tic?
It's really embarassing and utterly obvious. My speech slurs with it but I feel kinda alone with this one.
Hmmmm.
Just curious.

 

[seizurrific]

I grind my teeth and I bite the edge of my tongue on the left side- my lips also purse back and forth. Drool is copious when all of this happens.

Is that sort of what you're talking about?

 

[jayde-101]

Hey at the start of my seizures its starts with a numbness near my right ear that goes along my jaw and the corner it spasms its really noticeable .. the amount of dribble i produce is unreal to my tongue and everything goes numb even affects my teeth then it gets really bad then i loose consciousness and have a t/c usually a bad one follows resulting in incontinence and a really bad bit tongue and my muscles are really sore afterwards ... then i sleep for a good few hours ....
I can never talk when it happens cause all that comes out is a mumbled mess which no one can understand ..

What was it your describing ??

Im intrigued now ???

Jade x x

 

[LJ-Bain]

It sounds sorta familiar...I can drool and purse my lips but I guess I get a whole facial droop. It stays with me for 1/2hr or so afterwards too. My right eye droops and the right side of my mouth pulls to the side. I can't smile properly and I can't wrinkle my forehead or close my eye tight on the right side.
But then it all returns to normal after recovery.
It used to be the only thing that happened to me along with left sided weakness but 7 months ago now my head gets fuzzy, my face goes slack and my head drops, my left side twitches and then totally relaxes. Plus the whole can't talk during the whole thing except for some mumbles or snorting. Then the whole facial droop stays with me like a weird little friend for awhile.
Stupid right frontal lobe abnormal foci thing I guess that they haven't quite wanted to label yet officially.
It just seems different than others. But I guess we're all special.
Whenever I went to emerg they always thought I was having a stroke, but nope.

Seizurrific: grinding to biting leading to OUCH! Each time? That's painful.
Jade: Numbness around the ear? Mine sometimes has a ringing and full feeling to it but not quite like you. I have had the feeling of having hollow wooden teeth before though.
Besides sometimes having bitten cheeks and the right side of my tongue at night it still is a little different.
Thanks for responding though guys!

 

[valeriedl]

Alot of times I don't know that a seizure is coming on. My husband will realize that I'm going to have one because I'll start smacking my lips together or they will be closed and I'll move them back and forth. He says I'll get a "look". I'm not exactually sure what theat means but he's always right that there is a seizure going to happen when I get that 'look'.

If I know I'm having a seizure coming on alot of times my lips will start to tingle.

 

[Abynorml]

When I The simple partial I had on the plane my face went all spasmy I could feel the muscles moving, felt very weird, and sometimes when I'm feeling what I guess is an aura or a lowered threshold I get kind of an uncontrollable smile.

 

[LJ-Bain]

Valeriedl: sometimes my husband knows I'm going to have one when my eye starts to droop and I haven't felt it yet. Husbands can be like little seizure alert dogs!
Abynorml: The spasms sound very uncomfortable for you! Especially when you can feel it.

Oh the joys of seizures!