So how do you know you've had a seizure?

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I'll have my shirt off after sleeping as well having my bedroom door locked. I know I'm very lucky on how my seizures are effecting me these days compared to some.
 
If they happen during my sleep, I don't always know for sure, but usually because they are the TC type for me in my sleep and I know.
 
my last one: KO at the bottom of my stairs outside, toenail busted in half, face scar...
often it has been that reality mumbles into the clarity of a paramedic in my field of vision trying to tell me something or other for some strange reason... and that past occurrence was at a Starbucks where I was on the floor.
usually it's from someone telling me that rouses me into a consciousness.
in a way, I prefer bruised, cut (mildly) or banged up, because it helps me to clarify what's going on, and it helps me to justify taking some time off too... like a temporary tattoo commemorating otherworldliness
 
Since I have simple partial seizures, sometimes I'm really not sure. Sometimes I smell a brief phantom odor for maybe 5 to 10 seconds and I do not become completely exhausted as when I have waves of partials so I'm just not always sure.
 
MAB said:
Since I have simple partial seizures, sometimes I'm really not sure. Sometimes I smell a brief phantom odor for maybe 5 to 10 seconds and I do not become completely exhausted as when I have waves of partials so I'm just not always sure.
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if they're simple partials you'll know, there isn't a lapse of memory with them; one good guess is that they start as simples then go complex, in which there's no memory of the seizure or what you did during. one of the best things to do is ask yourself 'what is the last thing i remember?'
if it was the feeling of a seizure starting and then you become partially unconscious it's likely simple turned complex, which is fairly common.
 
qtowngirl said:
if they're simple partials you'll know, there isn't a lapse of memory with them; one good guess is that they start as simples then go complex, in which there's no memory of the seizure or what you did during. one of the best things to do is ask yourself 'what is the last thing i remember?'
if it was the feeling of a seizure starting and then you become partially unconscious it's likely simple turned complex, which is fairly common.
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I guess I can't explain it but sometimes I will smell something very breifly like an electrical burning odor that no one else noticed but it's over so quickly that I'm not sure if it was a seizure or just a strange occurence.
 
qtowngirl said:
if they're simple partials you'll know, there isn't a lapse of memory with them; one good guess is that they start as simples then go complex, in which there's no memory of the seizure or what you did during. one of the best things to do is ask yourself 'what is the last thing i remember?'
if it was the feeling of a seizure starting and then you become partially unconscious it's likely simple turned complex, which is fairly common.
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My simple partials have never progressed to complex partials.
 
ahhhh i getcha. i was just going by the thread name and that you know if you have an s.p simply (haha pardon the pun) b/c you're fully conscious.
re: the burning smell, that's an s.p. sign for sure. the best way to figure it out is write everything down, what you were doing at the time etc.
 
I always joke with my husband that I would never call the fire department to report a fire unless someone else confirms they smell something burning or until I see smoke or feel heat.
 
:) if that was a symptom for me i'd probably say the same.
 
Usually unless there is someone in the room with me I generally to see the seizure happen don't know that I've had a seizure.

I had a few recently in the morning that I didn't know I had. I would feel sort of out of it at the time, probably a semi partial, but I thought it was because I just woke up. I normally get up and take my meds, feed the cats then I get back in bed and go to sleep. If I had that feeling then I'll find my robe in a different room of the house than where it should be. I've found the empty cat food containers in the sink instead of the garbage can. There was toilet paper on the floor in front of the toilet once, just hope I wiped!

I loaded the dishwasher having no idea that I did it, probably a complex partial. I was cooking once and got in bed. My husband smelt food burning, turned off the stove (glad he was home), then came and got me. I kept telling him it was 11pm not 11am and it was bed time.

Most of the time the only way that I think I've had a seizure when I'm alone is because I'll get the horrible headache that I get after most seizures.
 
Usually after a tonic,there is a period of extreme confusion and awareness off surroundings sometimes lashing out at people trying to help.Which after a while slowly resides untill i realise that i have had a seizure,this may vary in time depending on how violent the actual seizure was.Not a feeling i care to have or wish upon anybody else.

After i have realised i have had a seizure,then i usually go to bed and tend to sleep the effects off only to wake up up in pain and with a very sore head.

Oh i forgot,a bitten tounge is always a dead give away for me.
 
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I don't know I've always had a seizure.When I do it's because I've had a Simple partial that sometime go into tonic -clonic or complex parial.

I often loose control of my bladder, or I hurt myself were I've fallen hard busted my head open.
 
Well, after this last one I woke up when the nice police lady asked me to come talk to her (outside, a few blocks from home). I guess when I was post ictal I rode away on my bike (no idea how) and someone called 911 so I wouldn't hurt myself. Usually it's just the holes in my tongue and the bloody foam on my pillow. I've woken up being handcuffed for being combative with emergency medical, a couple times in the hospital
 
So I started videotaping myself sleep using my computers webcam, and found that I have several seizures at night that I wasn't even aware I have had. some nights I would wonder if I did because I would wake up extremely weak and tired, even if I got 12 hrs sleep, i would struggle to open my eyes. but weakness was a huge key to me.


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