Epilepsy

[curious123]

I'm new to that forum.
What brought me here is a search for an answer.
My girlfriend has occasional seizures
What happens is she acts and behaves normal, however, all of a sudden she just turns off for 15-40 seconds, and turns back on.
During that time she can ask me to give her something cold and is trying to find some objects she can locate and start touching her face with that.

Not that long ago, she used my cell phone to move around her face.
Sometime ago, what really scared me, was that she started touching her face with a knife.

After seizure ends, I tell her what happened, but she did not remember she was touching her face.

She is taking KEPPRA, which seems to help reduce seizure appearances.

Does anyone know what kind of seizure is that?

[husbmike]

My wife has very similar type seizures. Sounds like partial seizures. How long has your girlfriend been having seizures? Not much you can do...Have you noticed a personality change? My wife takes phenobarbital and she is SO different now. Very irritable and angry all the time. There is a thing called temporal lobe epilepsy personality (TLE). These people are just angry all the time. Anybody have similar observations?