How is that?

[finalpoet]

So I have a complicated question. There is only one right answer and we may never know the answer.
To begin, a short story. My father had one verified grand mal. I saw him while he was seizing. A neurologist told us that he has the same angiomas i have, which causes my epilepsy. He had a seizure while we were out of town, so one verified. He believes he had a second one late at night when he woke up to piss weeks later, because of a burn he woke up with on the back of his leg and he has a heater for his room.
Complicated story I realize, ask any questions.
The second seizure was very late so nobody knows all we have is his burn. I don't think he had a second grand mal because I've never had a grand mal and then just got up and walked away. I'm extremely tired after a grand mal.
The point is, I don't think he had the second one, it just seems impossible. I don't know how he burnt himself, maybe randomly, he often hurts himself and doesn't realize it till later, it's his job. Anyway, what do you think? Possible? Impossible that he had a second grand mal? Questions? Clarification?

 

[Freda]

All I know is when my daughter has a GM she aches really badly all over for the following three days and I thought this was the same with everyone - in fact it's a question I was going to ask.
I have read on here about people having partial seizures and coming to in a different room. Perhaps it was one of those.

Someone is sure to come along with good advice. Hope your dad is okay.

 

[finalpoet]

All I know is when my daughter has a GM she aches really badly all over for the following three days and I thought this was the same with everyone - in fact it's a question I was going to ask.
I have read on here about people having partial seizures and coming to in a different room. Perhaps it was one of those.

Someone is sure to come along with good advice. Hope your dad is okay.

He's fine now, thanks.
As for a GM, I'm extremely tired after it and i sometimes piss myself, sorry if that's TMI. I usually don't feel any aches or pain unless I hit myself.

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[Freda]

Carly doesn't get tired at all but the muscle aches are strong, taking stairs is particularly difficult post GM. Clobazam also has no sleepy effect, she was told not to take the first dose if alone for that reason.
Everyone's different eh?

 

[knothing]

My grand mal's are always followed by 3 days of pain. There is a brief period between the seizure and total consciousnesses (postictal state) where I apparently can move normally in fact can be given instructions to move and perform the action (like climb back into bed). Once I gain full awareness I can't perform the same action due to severe muscle weakness. It is possible he had one fell on the heater and then in a postictal state he reacted to the heater and got in bed back to sleep.
Unfortunately without visual evidence it is hard to be conclusive but it is possible to do something in the postictal state that makes no sense once back to 'normal'. Outside of the burn did he feel the same physically after the other one you witnessed?

 

[Nakamova]

Three or four of my grand mal seizures have been real doozies and I am really sore or injured afterwards, sometimes for days. But most of them I have been able to walk away afterward -- even one where I dislocated my shoulder -- and unless there are witnesses I have to do some detective work to realize one occurred. For one of them I was on the phone with a friend when it happened. (She's witnessed me having one and knows what it sounds like when I do). She lives about half-hour away, so she drove over to check on me -- and I didn't realize I'd had a seizure until she got here and told me. Sure enough the phone was on the floor though in my post-seizure haze, I hadn't noticed. For the majority of my seizures I haven't been incapacitated afterwards, other than feeling really tired and sleeping for awhile afterwards.

I've also had some in my sleep, and not realized until in the morning when I've overslept and felt a little bit sore and "off".

So yes, it's possible that your grandfather had a grand mal and "walked away". Another possibility is that he had a Complex Partial seizure instead -- those can be a bit like sleepwalking.