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Q: Possible epilepsy ?
asked by: bailey89 on August 23rd, 2009
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I have a family history of epilepsy. My grandmother had them constantly and my mom had one. There is one time I think i had an actual siezure but i can remember things about it. I woke up and went to walk into the kitchen, i was 17. I started blacking out ( which happens often) and i started fading out. I felt my arms shoot out in front of me as i went down to my knees and can remember them jerking in ways i don't think i could do myself. i fell backwards and remeber my mind feeling like i was in nothingness, i can remember the feeling. I started to feel myself coming back at some point and could still feel my body twitching. I black out a couple times every day, and i have random muscle twitches all the time. I have trouble remembering things in the short term. smetimes when i try to remember things i was thinking about like a conversation i was going to have with someone i can't remember anything i was going to say. My memory sucks actually... sometimes i feel really shaky on the inside. i don't know how else to describe it. It feels like my inside is shaking and my eyes do too. I don't know if i should go get checked or what.
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gir2188
replied on November 6th, 2009
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absolutely get checked... when you have a seizure, electrical misfiring is not the only thing happening. during a seizure, all your muscles stiffen up and jerk, wich makes it nearly impossible to breathe. that is why most people will have a "postictal" phase after the seizure. this is because the brain was without oxygen the entire time... the brain cannot live without oxygen for more than 4 mins at a time, so if you go into status ellipticus( seizures with less than 10 mins in between) it can absolutely kill you if you do not have anti seizure meds on board....
T.B. EMT-B
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