Posted by Quintal on March 3, 2007, at 15:02:54
In reply to seizures, posted by TheMeanReds on March 3, 2007, at 12:24:00
>How does a person know if they are not having the kind of seizures that are in the movies: body flipping out, foaming mouth. But the other kind? The movies probably dont even create a true picture. I've never seen a seizure in real life.
They are pretty much like what you see in the movies, but maybe a little less violent and melodramatic than what you see on ER. My mother used to go stiff and rigid like a board, but with only a tiny stream of white foam coming from her mouth - it seems to be caused by saliva turning frothy as it's forced through the tiny gaps between the teeth and lips on the outbreath.
>I am bipolar II, and I never knew it, so how do I know if I have small seizures or not?
Were you prescribed the anticonvulsants for seizures or psychiatric purposes? Being prescribed anticonvulsants for bipolar doesn't mean that you have a seizure disorder (though bipolar disorder was once referred to as the 'Epileptic Personality').
I had childhood epilepsy, though I don't know what type it was for sure or what meds I was taking. I only recall one of (what I assume were) absence seizures where I was standing in line in the school playground while the teachers were calling the register. In what seemed to me like the next instant the whole playground was empty and it had started to snow, and I was standing there all alone with a little bit of drool running from the corner of my mouth - I guess I must have been standing there with it open for quite a while. I could see lessons had started in the classrooms, but nobody said anything when I came in from outside. I suppose they thought I was being ignorant or doing it to get attention or something.
If you experience something like that then you might be having 'petit mal' or absence seizures, but there are other typres such as temporal lobe epilepsy. It can be as hard to differentiate types of epilepsy as it can be with psychiatric diagnoses.
http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/epilepsy_temporallobe.html
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