Hi explicit,

people do different things when they're about to seize.
This pre-seizure experience is known as an aura. And not everyone experiences them. Also depends on which type of epilepsy you have.

Some people stare (this could also be an absence seizure and not an aura, auras usually preceed a generalised seizure), some people shout, some start crying, some have a feeling of surrealness or hear sounds or see images.
Do a google search on "epilepsy aura" and see what you get.

Also, you won't always know that you're actually having a seizure.
It mostly depends on the severity of the activity, which part(s) of your brain is affected and if the abnormal activity spreads to other parts of the brain.

Many times my eeg prints showed that I had a couple of seizures during a sessioin. Sometimes I knew about them and sometimes not. Tiny split-second "abnormalities" mostly went unnoticed in my case.

Anyways, best of luck :-)

Hennie, you have explained that in a great way, the more I study about seizures the more im confusedhow lng did it take to get yours under control, ive been 3 yars pls now thanks, im taking 3000 mill of keppra and 600 mill of dilatin.They keep raising my dialtin to try and get things under control,i have both folcal and grand seizures.One nuero said its in the center of brain,so they can just try totreat it,

Hi beingyoume,

my seizures aren't exactly "under control"..


I was also very confused when I started learning about seizures. So many types, so many triggers, so many causes.


Have alook at this page, it's pretty informative and should give you a good idea:
Diagnose-me.Com/

try to read as much as you can on seizures and epilepsy.

One good thing though: the more you learn the more interesting it gets :-)

i have always had a low seizure threshold, since childhood, i'm just prone to having seizures under certain circumstances. It's just the way my brain operates. My mom never dropped me on my head, I had no problems during birth, no illnesses or deseases as a baby or child. The doctors could never tell me or my parents exactly what causes my seizures. Maybe they will never know.


The seizure-free period that I now find myself in, has more to do with my stress-free lyfestyle and healthy eating habbits and daily excercise than it does with medication.

I'm supposed to take 1200mg convulex and 150mg lamictin per day. I don't take that anymore.


If I was to return to the big city and my corporate job (without again taking meds) i'd surely have seizures, guaranteed 100%..


The high-stress lifestyle of the city simply doesn't sit well with my low seizure threshold.

Hennie,thanks for taking time to give me the sight,ive only had the seizures for 5 years, I sold buissness, I could say im stress free but I think I have more now because I cant understand why life changed so suddenly.I have been readind and reading ,all I see is they are still trying to understand seizures themselves, hopefully one day they will be under control, I cant drive ,work or be alone , though I am alone alot, I need that, now im taking 3000 mill of keppra and 600 mill of dilatin but they are going to raise it this week, every week I give blood, how do you adjust to so many changes ,again thank you

That page that was given, says it was moved or deleted its amazing the articles out there on seizures and medications, thank though for your input hennie

Alright.. Thanks soo much for your help!

Hi there,

oops, my mistake, I had a space behind the url, try it now,

Diagnose-me.Com/cond/c140351.html


happy reading :-)

Hi again,

haha, little green online gremlins are conspiring against us :-)

for some strange reason this forum page changes the url somehow.
Anyway, do a google search for "diagnose me condition seizure disorder" and go to the first search result.

I allready have seizures now im being told im having more then I realize, they say im having sub-clinical seizures,im taking 3000mil of keppra, 600 mill of dilatin, now they want to run a free dilatin to see how much is actually in me, ive read these seizures show alot of activity but not outwardly, has any one heard or experienced this, ,they say thats why im becoming more and more confused