[MomandWife]

I had a seizure this week at work... I'm told. I remember a bad headache then waking up in the ER. I'm told I fell out of my chair, stopped breathing and was in and out of it. All the tests came back fine in the ER (except blood sugar was low). I've never had anything like this happen before. The soonest I can get an appt. with a neuro is 2 weeks. I was hopeing this was just stress and poor eating habits. However, two days ago something happned again. I was thinking I lost some time in the day and found out that I had wondered around a store for over 2 hours. I remember being there and then when I left someone asked me if I was ok and needed help. At the time, I had no idea what they were referring to until I went back to the store yesterday and found out. They thought I was drunk or something because I wasn't making any sense, acting kind of loopy and just keep walking around inside the store in circles. I remember the same headache (intense pain over my right eyebrow) and that's all I have to go on.

I am very scared. I have a child, husband and a job that I like. Not knowing what is casuing this or knowing when it's going to happen is very stressful - and I'm told stress can bring this on. A week ago everything was fine and now my life is upside down.

Has anyone had anything similar happen? Why can't I get into a Neuro sooner?

[OJHamilt]

I was a 30 year male. Had never had a sz. Medical professional. With a lot stress going on. Stress is what I attribute to my occurrance of seizures. My EEG showed left Temporal lobe spikes. Please tell me the result of your eeg. And please notify your employer that you have sz's. I actually was fired because my employer assumed I was abusing drugs due to my sz. I look forward to your response

[RoseD]

I know exactly what you're going through I'm 45 and up until a couple of months ago I never had a seizure before in my life. The first one I had was the worst it took me two days before I felt normal again, it happened in my sleep and I woke up needing to vomit and when I did all there was was blood so I palpated my stomach and couldn't feel any kind of pain, but I had intense muscle pain in my legs and my left shoulder and my tongue hurt. A friend of mine came over and asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital but I had made plans to go to Hawaii to spend Christmas with my Daughter and Grandchildren afterall I had a new Grandson I hadn't met yet as well as my Granddaughter, whos heart was set on me being there! So I told him no in fear of them telling me I wouldn't be able to go, not even my own health was going to stand in my way. Then I had a Petite-mal while I was out doing yard work I hadn't even realized I had one except that all of a sudden I'd lost contenence, still I did nothing about it. Then I had another Petite-mal while my Father was visiting poor guy I scared the the heck out of him he was ready to call 911 when I came out of it, he wanted to take me to the hospital and again I refused to go with the promise if it happened again I would go. Later that day it happened again, while I was sleeping so I kept my promise and my Father took me to the emergency room. My Father and I figured it was caused by my excitement of going to Hawaii and was hoping that once I got home they would stop. Well the Doctor had me go through a CT Scan, there was nothing abnormal and put me on Dilantin. He also referred me to a Neurologist, I decided to wait till I got back from Hawaii before making an appointment with the Neurologist, wishfully thinking that it was all going to go away Ha fat chance! The day after I got home I had another one bit my tongue so hard it needed to be sutured. I got in contact with the Neurologist, he's upped my dosage of Dilantin and next week I go in for further testing. I went through a depression stage because I wasn't sure if my medical insurance would cover it, I am normally a healthy person and since my job offered medical insurance I took it once I found out that my medical insurance was gonna cover part of my appointments it eased my mind a lot. It's not the best insurance but at least it's something. I know it's still going to put me in dept up to my ears my Father the angel that he is has moved me back in with him to help me out financially. My older sister has seizures and has had them for over 15 years now hers are caused by scar tissue on her brain from an injury that happened when she was a teenager, I know it's unfortunate for her but I was sure happy I had her to turn to. She's on the same medication as I am but a higher dosage. She really put my mind at ease mainly because she understood what I was going through and knew I was bound and determined to make my trip to Hawaii she just told me to stop stressing so much and told me to tell my daughter that if it happened while I was there to not panic, to keep her hands away from my mouth and have my Son in Law put me on my side to let me come out of it myself if I didn't after about a minute then call 911 but thankfully while I was there I had none. The Dilantin I'm taking seems to be working, I'm starting to feel more like my old self I know I'm not out of the woods yet I know there's a chance of a tumor or cancer hiding in there somewhere but I'm keeping a positive attitude about it, after all if the CT scan didn't pick up on it then it might still be in the early stages and hopefully it can be reversed. We'll soon find out