Question: Does anyone hear things around them when having a seizure. I think I just had one but seem to be aware of what’s happening. Just had trouble talking? Thank you for any input.

Hello! I'm new to this site and I have a question that I hope won't garner too much judgment: is anyone else here an epileptic who is (or once was) also an alcoholic? Or do you know someone else who is like that? I am both an epileptic and an alcoholic, and I realize my substance abuse is putting me at an increased risk of having seizures. I very recently committed to getting sober, but I'm curious if anyone else can relate or if anyone knows someone who is in a similar situation to mine.

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Hi ya! I think we should all post a video (if you have one) so we can see what each seizure looks like. I’ll start 😊

My husband suddenly started having grand mal seizures about 6 years ago completely out of the blue and was diagnosed with epilepsy about 6 months after his first cluster of seizures. He was young (27) fit and healthy and strong as he is a farmer, since the epilepsy began he has changed in almost every way... can anyone else relate?

I'm finding it hard to keep a relationship due to epilepsy I'm afraid to tell them incase they run or get freaked out over it. It's frightening any advice

My boyfriend has been taking Keppra for 24 days. He had a seizure on Oct 14 and the doctor put him on 500mg twice a day. He is having bad side affects of moods, anger, and depression
We want to stop it and just end the medicine. Today he only took 1 500mg.

It was his first seizure ever and he's never really taken any meds growing up, or even medicine (DayQuil/NyQuil) when he's sick. His body is super sensitive to any type of meds.

Waiting on the EEG and MRI results
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I would like to see what would people do and they see somebody that don't matter it's a family member or a co-worker or someone that they don't know that was having a seizure when would you do would you being helping them out or would you just leave and just leave them there like that because there's a lot of people that do that that don't help other people that is going through the epilepsy and they don't know how does it feel and what's happening or going on and I don't want any one of you… read more

I want to know

I ask this question because I see that grand mal seizures are still a bit of a mystery. I have had Tonic seizures where I would stiffen up for around 30-40 seconds and then slowly I'd loose tension in my body and then enter an absence state for around 10 minutes where I stare blankly and do not remember what I'm doing in that period. I definitely have been told that I do not have have spasms during my seizures so they are not tonic-clonic but there is an even weirder fact about my seizures
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