You know you have epilepsy if...

[crazychick10793]

You are changing for gym class and suddenly the entire class seems to have gravitated towards your locker and you get kicked out to the nurse. You have no idea what you did and you feel fine. Guess I had a very mild seizure.

 

[Loopy Lou]

I just went to put something in the bin, only to realise my fluffy new socks were in there *scratches head*

After a bit of looking around i realised that the bag they came in was folded nearly on top of my pile of clean laundry.

No recollection whatsoever!

 

[Malla]

You know you have epilepsy when you're THRILLED about finally having results on your EEG!

 

[CQ:)]

I just went to put something in the bin, only to realise my fluffy new socks were in there *scratches head*

After a bit of looking around i realised that the bag they came in was folded nearly on top of my pile of clean laundry.

No recollection whatsoever!

Luckily you found your socks before you put the trash out lol.

I used to sometimes have like sleepwalking episodes, when I would wake up something would be different.
Eg - Things that had been in my cupboard the night before would now either be on my bed or the floor.
I woke up once during summer with a pair of socks on which I didn't have on the night before .
Since I live on my own I couldn't blame anyway for moving things around fft:

I once mentioned it to my neuro here & he said it was only sleepwalking. I wasn't happy with that so when I saw an epitiologist last year I told him about these episodes & he said it's more then likely that I was having partials in my sleep.

 

[Rag]

You know you have epilepsy when you're THRILLED about finally having results on your EEG!

...because now you can triumphantly tell all the people that were casting aspersions on you: "SEE? I TOLD you there was something wrong with my BRAIN!"

 

[Malla]

Haha! You know you have epilepsy when you order a small beer in a huge glass because you know sooner or later half of the content will be spilled on the floor.

 

[Bindi]

You know you have epilepsy when:

Your teenage son is always asking you, "Are you having a moment?"

When the son and hubby say your answer to "Who is the president?"(post tonic-clonic) is Osama Bin Laden. And you think THEY forgot.

When you tell your friend, "If you are good, I'll let you give me a seizure."

When you're reading and you all of a sudden think all words are upside down, backwards, and in a different language.

 

[Endless]

You know how to order off the hospital "secret menu"

• coffee + chocolate pudding + mini-marshmallows from the cafeteria fruit bar = rich hot chocolate with mini marshmallows
• Wet rim of glass with water and sprinkle with salt. Carefully pour in ice and sprite. If you close your eyes real tight it's a margarita on the beach in Cancun.

• white dessert cake or nilla wafers layered with custard, + sliced fruit + jam from breakfast + whipped topping = poor man's trifle

• Any kind or meat or tofu sandwiched in leftover breakfast bisquits + mustard + a slice of fako cheese = sliders from your favorite bar. Or shred the meat and mix it with ketsup and onions = sloppy joes.
• Cream of mushroom soup + cubed chicken or tofu + steamed veggies + breakfast bisquit on top = chicken pot pie

You get the idea.

 

[C0urt]

some of those sound like they would induce a seizure

 

[Screamy]

When you are still in a dazed seizure, go into your ferrets room and pee on their paper litter, then, finish up and leave it for your husband to clean up!(peeing on a boottray which is used for the litter builds up quite a bit, ewwwwwwwww)Thanks Baby!

This was a few years ago but he WILL NOT let me forget that.

 

[C0urt]

just means you did it right

 

[nicholas:)]

I think you intuitively know
no matter what the doctors say!

 

[stilldancing_98]

because it seems like you never quite know whats going on.

 

[seizingbeauty]

You know you have E when people mistake your hangover for post ictal state

 

[seizurrific]

You know you have E when-

Your roommates are smiling at you and you have no idea what you did

When you're laughing, and laughing, and laughing, and laughing (gestalt seizures)

When people have magically appeared next to you and the change/suddenness startles you into an aura : )

When you let your roommates strobe you into a TC so they can get out of really sketchy dates, or to clear the front room if other roommates and their dates are getting frisky in there hahaha (I only do this with the promise of food, a ride to the grocery store, a cool towel for my head and only if I have nothing to do for the next 12+ hours...hey, it was going to happen anyway, right? haha- in reality this inducing thing happens very very rarely...my brain requires no provocation most of the time!)

One of the lights in a room blinks and you do the ninja move like someone is going to snipe you and you very carefully look at it for another 5 seconds and if it blinks again at all you get the f out of there

If you're the only one who notices the blinking light

If in a uni class the prof wants to show a movie/ppt and you say, "Excuse me, apologies, can you keep the lights on?" and everyone groans, "C'mon, not again..."

Your roommates want to go to the theatre and watch and movie and everyone is late because you're looking frantically for your sunglasses ; )

 

[Eli]

It used to irritate me when people who knew me well would be telling me a story or talking about an event and say don't you remember I told you about this/that.

So you know you have epilepsy when you embrace your e and utilize it to no longer have to listen to those long boring stories from others by saying...."now you know I don't remember that story and won't remember this new story so lets not waste the oxygen."

Let's hope they don't catch on! fft:

 

[seizurrific]

Hahaha I do that all the time!

Just this morning I had a petit mal while getting some, well I can't remember what it was I was trying to eat haha, out of the fridge and I came out of it just as my roommate was ducking under my arm to get to her shelf; properly freaked me out haha


You know you have E when your roommates confiscate your glass cups/dishes because you've broken a few during TCs : )

You know you have E when you voluntarily use the rear burner on the stove and warn people not to stand behind you (once hit a date square in the forehead with a pot when I cloniced- spattered hot oil all over myself and burned us both...epic night. He like it so much, apparently, that he stalks me as a love interest of his-and that was 4 years ago haha-)

You know you have E when you are cooking food, go off doing something else in a seizure state and get jealous when you smell the food, then ask your roommates, "Who the hell is making that delicious-smelling whatever it is and can I have some?" only to be reminded that it's yours! Yes!

When you randomly find money in random pockets or random places : )

 

[davidmc]

When you randomly find money in random pockets or random places : )

I do that all the time.
I check my pockets before putting my clothes in the wash, yet somehow I ended up putting my money through. Fortunately it was ok after it dried.

Don't know if I qualify for this game or not as I don't have any diagnosis due to normal EEGs and the only diagnosis I have is a chromosome disorder.
But Topamax does help a hell of a lot with my seizures.

...If you have a picture of you holding an owl on the side and suddenly the frame is crushed on the floor like you've walked over it and destroyed your picture but you have no memory of it...

 

[seizurrific]

- you know you have E when your friend with E texts over saying,"I left my purse with my Lamictal tablets at So-So's house and they're gone for the evening and it is REALLY close to 'drug time'...can I come over and borrow 100s and 200s from you just for tonight/tomorrow morning? I will "repay my debt" tomorrow! "

 

[stilldancing_98]

When I can't remember where I put my favorite candy bar that I usually put in the freezer that everything else is in but my candy bar.