You know you have epilepsy if...

[alivenwell]

You have epilepsy when you pleasantly find money where you forgot it was stashed.

 

[stilldancing_98]

I love that one, So many times I have found a twenty or more in my purse and swore my mother put it in there.

 

[C0urt]

You know you have epilepsy, if the first thing you say to the EMT when you come out of it is .."You know, we really need to stop meeting like this. "

I have done that,

and while walk down the street in reno, I hear someone call my name. It was two emt's across that street.

In a different city while in traffic at a light sitting on my bike. Someone tapped their horn. I turned to look over my shoulder. the emt's waved.

lets see, i went to use my cell phone. realized I didnt have it. I knew i didnt lose it. I leave it in my pants even when I dont have them one so I don't lose it. so a friend calls me to tell me I seized while i was out running. I face planted in the grass luckily. Apparently I knocked on a few wrong doors before i got home, freaked the neighbors out before I made it home. still had to go track down the phone

there are other strange stories to.

I am usually non-verbal when i am in a post-tictal state. I keep a notbook in my bag so I can tell people whats going on. there are notes in my notebook like "seizure-I need food" and "coffee keep the change" some are just strange, and since I don't remember any of them, it is all more funny.

there is something about reading others with stories like these makes me feel a little more normal. thanks guys

 

[C0urt]

One of my best stories involves waking up in the back of ambulance, and once they got the neck brace off me in the e.r. I got up signed out and walked home in only my underwear.

 

[charliekins]

One of my best stories involves waking up in the back of ambulance, and once they got the neck brace off me in the e.r. I got up signed out and walked home in only my underwear.

haha! I bet they werent expecting that!

 

[Loopy Lou]

I love that one, So many times I have found a twenty or more in my purse and swore my mother put it in there.

I found £50 in my purse once. No idea where it had come from until my mum informed me i'd got it out of the bank the day before. She said she'd been wondering what i needed to take the £50 out for.

I decided that since i had it, i might as well go shopping! Putting it back in the bank would have been way less fun!

 

[Eve]

You know you have epilepsy if you can't for the life of you remember what the heck you did last night..............................................................onder:

 

[seizingbeauty]

You know you have Epilepsy when you .....

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You know you have epilepsy when the EMT asks you what year it is and you say 1996(2005)
when you use the camp chair as a porta-potty
when you get tossed from the show for heckling the Mime

 

[seizingbeauty]

• You've ever spent 30 minutes trying to change the channel on the remote after a seizure and don't know why it won't work, only to realize you've been trying to change the TV with your cell phone
• You stare at your loved one's faces as they are grilling you asking who they are and you confidently blurt out, "I know it begins with an 'S' and you're my sister" to your daughter
• You practice saying your name over and over in your head so that you're ready when someone asks you after a seizure
• You have lots of nicknames for people and places so that others can't tell when you've actually forgotten something
• You go into your Neuro's office and give him a run down like you're pre-med and he looks at you and says, "Well, obviously you know what's best!"
• Your family can't tell if it's just THAT cold outside or "there you go again"
• You start to ask your friends if just once maybe one of them could have the emergency so you can try and meet a cute fireman since it's a little hard from your back and out cold
• You've come to in the hospital on your 18th birthday listening to 2 doctors argue about who's going to remove the lightbulb from the man next door.....and you pray for another seizure!

OMG :roflmao: Been there done That over and over Still:roflmao:

 

[C0urt]

it is amazing how used to become to your own blood and other people freak out.


my aura gives be about 1-3 minutes. So i usually try to have my seizures alone. I will excuse my self and leave usually and go to a restroom or my own room. most of the time I make it, but there is that handfull of times i didn't. Face plants in the hallway or running into the my own door.


there was also christmas eve in one hospital, and christmas day in another.

 

[C0urt]

You know you have Epilepsy when you .....

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:roflmao:

You know you have epilepsy when the EMT asks you what year it is and you say 1996(2005)
when you use the camp chair as a porta-potty
when you get tossed from the show for heckling the Mime

I need to try try that.
I was at a show with a friend. (my epilepsy is sound triggered)
there was this band that SUCKED and I lean over to a buddy and point that out. It was a quit moment even the band on stage heard me, and pointed that fact out. I never wanted to turn myself inside out.

 

[Loudmouth]

You know you have epilepsy when your 11 yr old daughter who also has epilepsy has to remind you to take your tablets.
You know you have epilepsy when you find your chequebook that's been missing for 5 weeks in the freezer.
You know you have epilepsy when you find yourself washing up in freezing cold water.
You know you have epilepsy when you find you have emptied EVERY bottle of shampoo conditioner and bubble bath down the toilet, and flushed it so now there's bubbles all over your bathroom floor......

 

[Rae1889]

lol
you know you have epilepsy when you can get your tongue pierced and feel nothing more than normal! lol

 

[rewired]

I love the one about practicing the names. I'm 6'1" and 260. My wife is 5'4" and 160ish, When I have a sz she calls for her daughter to come over to get me out of the corner or what ever. My step daughters name is hard enough to say when not coming out of a sz. She was yelling at me "Whats my name" Instead of trying to say Leahney, I said Tylers mom. LOL

 

[rewired]

I liked to have my sz's by myslef too. To many people freak and then you end up in the ER needing to sign out. LOL
I would have a sz someplace and people would, of course be freaking out. I would say, It was only a sz. Not like I was having a heart attack or soemthing serious. LOL

 

[charliekins]

lol
you know you have epilepsy when you can get your tongue pierced and feel nothing more than normal! lol

Haha! that really is true! ^^

 

[seizingbeauty]

You know you have epilepsy

when the senior citizen on the bus gives You their seat!
when you have a better phsyic than your friend who goes to the gym everyday.

 

[C0urt]

when you have your doctors pass ready to the bus.

it feels like kindergarden all over again.

 

[Rae1889]

doctors pass?

 

[C0urt]

I have actually been asked to bring signed medical clearance from a doctor.
I have been thrown off of a plane till i got one once after I had a seizure during take off. and I have been asked to leave a bus once while enroute. but they did call an ambulance