Eggbertx
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So I figured I may as well stop being a stranger and introduce myself. To quote the "Seizure background" section of my profile:
I don't remember the exact phrase describing it, but while I was about to eat breakfast, I went into seizure state(?) and had several seizures, one after the other, so I was taken to the hospital and I spent the night in the ICU.
Can epilepsy cause any kind of body dysmorphic disorder? I felt relatively normal before this last ordeal, like I could just ignore my condition as long as I was diligent with my meds, but ever since then, my body has felt almost alien to me, like a broken down car
I was born with hydrocephalus, and had a shunt implanted in the right-rear section of my head. My hydrocephalus seems to have caused grey matter heterotopia (stiffening of a section of the brain, often a cause of epilepsy), but I wasn't diagnosed with non-photosensitive epilepsy until my second seizure in May 2013 (apparently it's pretty rare, considering my condition to not have any seizures at a young age, and we don't know why it never happened until recently). The first was a year before, but we attributed it to a medication I was on. All three were tonic-clonic seizures.
I don't remember the exact phrase describing it, but while I was about to eat breakfast, I went into seizure state(?) and had several seizures, one after the other, so I was taken to the hospital and I spent the night in the ICU.
Can epilepsy cause any kind of body dysmorphic disorder? I felt relatively normal before this last ordeal, like I could just ignore my condition as long as I was diligent with my meds, but ever since then, my body has felt almost alien to me, like a broken down car