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



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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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??

  7. 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
    ..

  8. I was diagnosed with epilepsy 4 years ago I have no warnings, I had an episode at my mums at the weekend my dad filmed me coming out of it I was sat up and I was talking a load of nonsense and making weird hand gestures I’ve never seen anything like this is this normal from a seizure I was really shocked and upset it wasn’t nice to watch

  9. I suffer with epilepsy and didn't realize before I was diagnosed how many different types there are and how much it would effect my day to day life. I recently broke my nose and seriously injured my back during a seizure and had no idea til I came out of it hours later. Everytime I have a seizure it ruins my memory a little bit more aswell, I hope one day I get better and would love to be able to help others get through what is a really scary thing to be going through alone

  10. I think I had a seizure. My friends and I were hanging out and I kept “zoning out” as they said. I think I was falling back. But it felt as if in slow motion. The info also states that only last a few seconds but it felt like it was for hours. Though now I know it wasn’t.

  11. My mom currently suffers from seizures. She has all types of them. She’s been in multiple wrecks because of them. Absence seizures for her last about a minute. Immediately after she’ll slur on all her words. So scary but it’s definitely something to keep informed about.

  12. I have an absence seizure. When it seizure occurs I can't talk in right way aor work. I just try to make calm myself. I stop for a while till I recover. On the day it occurs, It occurs many times during that day may be 8 or 10 times. But on next day it doesn't occur but Its affect lasts for 2 or 3 days. I mean, some unwanted thoughts come to mind and it looks as they will kill me. I am under medical treatment, taking oxetol 300 two times daily.

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