what was your first tell tale sign something wasnt quite right ....

[petero]

I had one event that knocked me out at work. I woke up on the floor with a couple coworkers over me. They called my sister (who is my 'boss' ) and her husband drove me home. I was basically like WTF? And just slept.
A couple weeks later the same thing happened on vacation with my family (parents and siblings (I'm single/nk)) when I woke up in the hospital, got diagnosed with 2 seizures = epilepsy = phenytoin Rx.
After the first one I wasn't really concerned. After the second and third it seemed like they were getting worse, more settled in, and I started accepting it, but I'm not sure I still really "get it" until I have another one, at which point I at least feel better because it refreshes my memory about it, because it is such a vague event for me it's almost like it doesn't happen, other than the after effects.

 

[C0urt]

month long coma death, that sorta thing

 

[SlimBlue]

Was found having a severe t-c in '95, went status, and then in a coma for a month.

I'm still amazed I lived through that tbh, and came out with some odd bits of brain damage and good ol' E as a reminder..

 

[Belinda5000]

I started having seizures around 1 or 1 1/2 and was dx'd at two, so I don't remember my first seizure.

 

[Janus]

I had been having these absence seizures for years but I just lived with it not wanting to support the pharmaceutical industry, then i started having T/C seizures when i spent the night at a friends, on the couch, I started waking them up by "flopping around on the floor"