Laughter as side effect after a seizure...

[Carpentergirl]

:hugs:I notice that after I have a seizure...it doesn't really matter if it's a major grand mal...or a few complex partials...about two days later....I will develop a noticeable characteristic trait that will stand out to others around me...either major irritableness, crying, etc...but just ONE and only ONE thing....so...this time it is uncontrollable laughter...I laugh at EVERYTHING! lol Has this ever happened to any of you guys? it's VERY noticeable....I'm very giggly this week...I guess i'm thankful that's it's a good one this time around...was just curious if this has every happened to anyone else...it's keeping me up at night...I'm usually asleep by 9:00...last night I was up till 11:30 watching youtube videos laughing my ass off...lol ...I told my parents that I won't be at church sunday because I don't think I can sit there long enough all serious with out emberassing them...I know it will go away on it's own in about a week...and thank goodness I work with just my dad etc...my boyfriend is probably going to strangle me before the weekend is over with! lol Love you gang...;-)...have a good weekend....xoxo

 

[acshuman]

What May Be Causing Your Laughing?

Carpentergirl,
I did a google of your description about your laughing and found something that you may want to look at! There are a lot of articles about something that is called the 'laughing seizure'. To check it out just google'Gelastic & Dacrystic Seizure'. This will give you a list of articles about this. Find the article that is on the website www.epilepsy.com/learn.types-seizures/gelas and you will be able to read a description of this type of seizure. Hopefully you can look at this and compare what the article says to what you have happen to you and get some kind of explanation! This may also give you an ability to ask any questions you may want to ask your doctor about this! :twocents:

ACsHuman

 

[Carpentergirl]

Well...I've been with my boyfriend all day, and everytime I laugh it's a direct response from something either he said, or I said, or something happened etc..I don't just laugh out of the blue, like I start talking etc...today is a little bit better than yesterday.....but, it's just that it takes me awhile to quit laughing once I start...it's definitely something that I notice...It's better than crying all the time, that's for sure.....lol

 

[Nakamova]

It could be seizure-related or perhaps medication-related, since both of those thing can potentially affect areas of the brain associated with moods and emotions. So your laughter might be a little bit more prolonged or extreme than normal.

 

[Carpentergirl]

its starting to go away...thank goodness...we went shopping Saturday and it was really a test for me because I lost it a couple times in the check out line...the cashier was a man with full makeup on and long hair and fake fingernails...obviously trying to be a woman...and normally I wouldn't have blinked an eye....and I had to look down the entire time because I could hardly control myself...and I could careless...hey...that's your choice...free country etc..but in my weak state...I wasn't "all there"...so I did the best I could under the circumstances....lol...but I can honestly say that I'm noticing a big difference today..I'm starting to feel a little more serious...it helped when my daughter came back on sunday night and I had to buckle down into parent mode also this morning and get her ready for school this morning...lol..She said she would rather have me laughing all the time then the crying all the time...lol...I've been on one of my medicines for 14 years now...the other one for about 8 months...I feel like every time I have a seizure...my family gets a slightly different version of "me" until the next time around..and that I don't get to decide the outcome of how my personality is going to be affected each time around...lol ..and it sucks for them....that's for sure....I have to work really hard and pay close attention to make sure I don't snap anyone's heads off or talk to harshly etc...and that just adds even more stress...I still always go back though to being thankful everytime...no matter what...no matter how many I have though...I don't have them every day, I don't have them every week, and I don't have them every months...not even every three months....(knock, knock, knock)....and I can live with that...

 

[Music36]

Carpentergirl,

I feel like my personality is effected by seizures, but in a different way than your experience. My aura is intense fear and the intense fear is a main symptom of my complex partials. They can come in clusters and it really effects my state of mind if I keep feeling intense fear. I become a different person. Thankfully, the auras have greatly decreased thanks to surgery. I had one complex partial since surgery. My surgery was 10 months ago. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and trying to not get stressed out about anything and trying to get the sleep I need.

Surgery had a big effect on my emotions. I felt like I was on an emotional roller coaster for awhile. I didn't know what to expect each day when I woke up. I cried a lot the first couple of months for no reason. I felt like I had anxiety disorder and was bipolar for several months after surgery. I felt like my personality changed for awhile. I believe this comes from the Amygdala being removed. It controls emotions. I had left temporal lobe seizures and they also removed my left Hippocampus which controls verbal memory.

 

[Carpentergirl]

yes, I can understand that...I have bouts of that for awhile after my siezures...I sing a lot in my church...and I remember having to sing for a funeral just days after a a huge cluster of tonic clonics...that was probably the worst struggle of my E...on record...I wasn't right with the world for two solid weeks....lump in my throat anxiety ....it's amazing what our bodies can just do to us physically out of the blue...just out of nowhere...all by our selves...and then go away on our own...I'm usually a self confident person and it takes about two weeks for me to get that back as well....I get scared of the dark...and just a paranoid feeling for a short while...it's such a weird connection...I have a weird feeling though, that my seizures are going to get worse slowly over time as I get older...I cant explain it...just a feeling I have...

 

[acshuman]

Body's Negative Reactions

Carpentergirl,
The human body is something that many people think can do anything and everything. The fact is that the human body is affected by the introduction of many things(internally or externally), no matter what they are. Many times a person may not feel that their body is reacting to something because that reaction is very small. At the same time a person may have some type of allergy. An allergy may mean that something as simple as touching something that has had nuts in it or touching something that has a very tiny amount of latex as an ingredient may cause a reaction that could be fatal.
These things are going to be different for each person unless something has been tested and found to be harmful to every person it comes in contact with.
This means that each person is going to have to have tests done or actually experience a bad reaction to something. This will show them that something may be harmful to them.
The things that may harm someone are going to continuously change throughout a person's life. This means that a person who is NOT bothered by something may develop an allergy or negative reaction to something that has been harmless to them previously or something that they reacted negatively earlier in life may now NOT cause any kind of reaction.
Our brains change in this way too. So we NEVER know when something is going to cause us to feel differently and feel in danger.
This kind of happening occurs in many people's lives!! :twocents:

ACsHuman

 

[Music36]

Carpentergirl,

In relation to what ACsHuman said, our epilepsy changes over time. I hope your seizures don't get worse, but I think I know what you mean. I had epilepsy all my life, but didn't get correctly diagnosed until I was 21. During childhood and teen years, my complex partials were assumed to be anxiety attacks by my doctors b/c of the intense fear. My doctors never sent me to a neurologist. I always knew they were not anxiety attacks, but I did not know what they were. In my late teens, my "attacks" became more frequent and more intense. I also starting having multiple seizures where one seizure would go into another. I felt like I was heading for an explosion. The tonic-clonic at age 21 was the explosion.

 

[Carpentergirl]

Acshuman, when I was reading your post I was reminded of my cat allergy that I had so badly growing up....my sister had three cats at her house and we would have family get togethers, and my eyes would swell up so badly that I would only be able to stay for about an hour....lol...when I got pregnant with my daughter, and had her...my hormones and everything changed....I started having seizures when she was 6 months old...my cat allergies went away completely....I even have an indoor cat...can you believe that??? lol I really do believe to this day that when they say "everything changes when you have a baby"...they aren't kidding...lol ...oh and that incident that I described about having the worst struggle with my E....I had had 5 grand mals in one morning and had to go to the hospital and get Topamax injected in my arm...that was 5 years ago...I havent' had an incident that bad since then...two grand mals in one morning at the most over these 5 years in several different instances......and simple and complex partials months in between...but..i am starting to notice that they are becoming more simple partial than complex...that's the change im noticing...I keep waiting to lose consieceness...and I don't...so...I'm not too alarmed because I am diagnosed with both types of seizures...just glad the side effects are tapering off...can get back to some normal life...thank you for taking the time to share you history, and feedback...much appreciated...