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Your going too sleep and being asked if your gonna have a seizure NO!!! I just need a nap
 
Or if you start celebrating New Year's at 9:00 PM instead of Midnight, because this year on New Year's Day (10 days ago) I had 2 tonic clonic seizures probably because I stayed up to see the ball drop at midnight on New Year's Eve. (so I told my husband we'd celebrate early next year) :)
 
When you don't remember so are told that your son opened the card door & found your eyes rolled back & you weren't breating, so he gave you CPR then the EMTs came & resucitated you then they took you to the hosp. & you were there 1 month...but REMEMBER NONE OF IT. As far as I know, we went to a restaurant in November & in early Jan. I was in a bed in a rehab. In the hosp.my husband got me a Charlie Brown Christmas tree that played that Chistmas day tune, and got sick of it cuz I kept asking him to play it, he says.
 
When everyday has the potential to be a living nightmare.
 
There should be a thread that reads you know you are post-ictal when....
because today after a seizure I kept on drifting in and out of sleep and thinking, what is that on my chest? Oh, right, my dog is sitting on my chest. Waking up again, what is that on my chest? Is that a dog? Waking up again, what is that on my chest? Etc. etc.

At least he's not a huge dog. Just 30lbs of warmth keeping me in place.
 
when people don't think it's unusual when you walk into the couch and say darnit, I banged my...what is this? My wrist? No. My elbow? No. What is this part of my body called?

They glance in your direction and see what you are rubbing in pain.

Um, that's your ankle.

Darn meds and their side effects. A new game in my life has been invented "Try to remember that word!"
 
Haha, communication in my house has digressed into a great big game of Charades. What's mom trying to say now??
 
When u have twitched for a week and know a seizure is coming you just dont know when, being a single mother i hate for my son to see me take them....
When your arm jerks for no reason and your drink goes everywhere...
When your 2 mnths pregnant and wake up to see three burly emts standing over you and you come up swinging because you cant remember anything, then getting explained to me that i was a passenger in the car and my head went back as my arm stiffed up between the steering wheel and almost wrecked us, so my boyfriend pulled over at a gas station and him n his sister got me out of the car and laid me on the pavement n tried to bring me out of it while waiting on the emts and the only thing i say is am i pregnant, no i cant get pregnant, then being told yes you are 2 months pregnant....
Swimming in a pool with your brother and boyfriend and about drown, needless to say my brother wont go swimming with me anymore...
When u wake up sore from head to toe and cant remember anything...thats what hurts the most...
 
when you'd rather keep sleeping on the floor of the commuter train than get on another gurney
 
Oh ya, my son is starting to forget words. I have had that forever. But when I say whatserface. He always knows what I'm talking about so far. Mom , what's wrong your brain? come on you know. I know epilepsy. Same thing as him.lol
 
you're so tired from the side effects of the meds that you don't remember what normal is like!
 
You find your boot in the night stand and Christmas Tree ornaments in your shirt drawer and your sure your brain had a reason for wanting them there :/
 
this seems backwards

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when you have those bouts of "normal days" and you think you can take on the world and do anything
 
You know you have epilepsy when...a friend asks you if "your alright" or "what you staring at,thats so interesting?..ex the ground
You know you have epilepsy when..you notice a crowd of people staring at you or making goofy faces.
You know you have epilepsy when..your head jerks or something goes flying out of your hand.
You know you have epilepsy when...you cant even remember your own name or questioning your own address!!
You know you have epilepsy when...you find yourself somewhere random (2 examples in high school found myself in the middle of the enterence right where the buses pull in and have no clue why i was there or how i got there. Another example finding yourself almost walking into the mens room).
 
If you scary the sh_t out of your lover because you forgot you ripped the battery from your phone in a fit of anger (my phone was being ornery). Sorry babe.
 
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