How To help if someone has an absence seizure – Epilepsy Action Employer Toolkit



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  1. I have also absence seizure. Daily 1 time is coming. I am from India mumbai. Neurologists Dr recommended me medicine keppera and encorate. Right now ok I am with tablet and Neurologists dr recognized. Thanks to showing video we get more knowledge about absence seizure

  2. Wow i used to have petit mal when I was very little to 6 grade. Used to get bullied for it a lot but luckily I had a couple of good friends that used to hold my hand when I would have the seizures and it would pull me out of it ❤

  3. This videos is informative in many ways, but is also omits an extreme amounts of information.
    The sentence starting with “As absence seizures are very short…” is informative to an extent, yet it lacks to inform that absence seizures can last for a whole day for some people (myself included).
    Regarding the part whether you should call an ambulance or not depends entirely on the situation and the individual. Most of us do (or should!!!) carry emergency-meds with us, and have contacts to call if we have these prolonged seizures.

  4. I think my fiancee suffers from absence seizures. But I cannot convince her something is wrong. About 3 weeks ago, I think she had seizure while walking towards me but then sort of started losing her balance and went sideways and hit the wall with her left shoulder, then fell backwards and smashed her head on the floor. It was terrifying. She has no recollection of it nor helping her to bed. She promtly fell asleep. I feel like her seizures are different, because I notice a definite difference in cognitive ability, balance loss and speech impediments. These intensify during the day. Her whole personality changes and she sort develops a vacant like look in her face and eyes. They appear glazed over. It is driving me nuts. I cant get her to go see a dr. But now she cannot deny the evidence of the fall. She bled a bit from the back of the head.

  5. You have my maximum respect Dr Obulor,I want to appreciate you for all the awesome things you do to give people a second chance to live you are my hero thanks for putting up with the herbal recommendation to cure Epilepsy.

  6. I was diagnosed with absence seizures almost four years ago. I remember I would have these episodes where I would space out and become dizzy. At first me parents and I didn’t know what was going on. One day I was getting ready for work, and one of these episodes occurred. My mom decided to take me to the hospital to figure out what was going on. They started out running some tests to see if I was sick or something. All the tests came back fine. As we were leaving I had another one of these episodes. The doctors decided to keep me overnight to monitor me. They ran an EEG, and the results of that came back that I was having seizures

  7. I go into these episodes of zoning out. But I can be snap out of it. I believe I may have had absence seizures for years. It’s like I go into a daze staring off into space like a circuit breaker protecting my brain from strain or stress.

  8. I've had narcolepsy as long as I can remember. I believe I've been having absence seizures. I thought I was dozing off and falling asleep but this describes what I've been experiencing perhaps I'm having seizures??

  9. Ok ,so since my late 16s I frequently have this problem : Sometimes randomly I have strange feelings which is indescribable, its like things are coming closer, into more focus , deja vu etc when all of a suddem I go blank and there is loss of awareness and connection with the surrounding, I am not conscious or aware of anything its same like when a person sleeps then after few secs I return back from that blankness and then forget what I was doing that particular time and even what I did the entire day, I then try and start recalling so ut takes me good 3 -4 mins to remember everything, sometimes I can control/ ward it off , other times it happens so frequently that by the end I get terrible headaches…
    Its been happening for 3 years now,
    then 3-4 days ago I had a full tonic- clonic seizure in the morning for the 1st time… my sister saw it , I was sleeping amd suddenly I began jerking , My lips turned blue, eyes rolled to a side and I bit my tongue..
    Of course I was unconscious after this , and don't remember anything of the seizure , my sister described it to me, only I had headache and body ache throughout the day and felt tired and sleepy
    I did go for an MRI , which came back normal
    Could someone please tell what is all this..it would be of great help
    ..

  10. if you got this problem can it get better or worse? i believe i have it a couple of times a day i know its happening but only lasts 5 seconds then im back to normal

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