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There are different types of epilepsy with different characteristics like grand mal epilepsy you have tonic clonic generalized muscle contractions, frothing, unconsciousness, twitches, metal confusion, some may lose bladder and bowel control, usually preceded by an aura of impending seizure. aura is a strange feeling of muscle stiffening, hearing weird sounds, smelling strange smells etc. absence seizure manifest as brief staring spells where the person is cut off from the surroundings.
It does sound like a seizure, and contrary to how awful it looks, seizures are not painful. It's also not uncommon for older dogs to develop seizure activity. Call your vet and have him make a note of the episode in your dogs's chart. Make sure you tell him the time of day the seizure happened as well. It may be a one-time occurrence - or not. If the seizures become more commonplace, phenobarbitol is one medication that most vets start with to control them.
There are some that involve staring off and only last a minute or two. Some involved stiffening of the body only. Google seizure types. The only way to tell if it is a true seizures is having an eeg within 24 hours of the seizure, it will show abnormal brain activity. My brothers seizures always show in the right temporal lobe of the brain. His are controlled now with antiseizure meds. If you have seizures pregnancy can make them worse. You need to see a neurologist for proper diagnosis.
Docorate is a medication approved for treatment of psychiatric symptoms, and not generally used to treat siezures. In many U.S. practices the drill is only to prescribe medications to control siezures after the third documented siezure. That is not to say the medication is innapropriate. There are many unanswered questions regarding the patient's symptoms and general medical status.
From my month or so of symptoms, I have most of those. Others will be able to give you a better answer hopefully to help you. My eye has been blurry/blind for 2 weeks or so. I still have vibrations that feels cellphones are wrapped around my chest area, and just drop to my knees. Happens in less than a second. Started with 2 maybe 3 an hour. Last day or so it happens 2-3 times a minute it seems.
After months of symptoms like posterior headaches(not severe), occasional nausea, tinnitus, a few instances of neck pain, numbness in hands, feet, and face, constant eyelid twitching, I finally had an MRI that showed mild cervical stenosis and other mild degeneration. I was referred to a NS who said the stenosis was very mild and surgery is not necessary. I already made another appointment with another NS as a backup. He also said it was very mild, but mentioned a Chiari Malformation.
My 9 yr old was diagnosed with seizure disorder last week after stress EEG showed multiple abnormal firings in left parietal lobe. MD states that it is most definitely seizure activity/disorder. His symptoms are so vague, though, that we often don't know when he is having a seizure, or what to do. We only seem to know for sure that he had a seizure after the fact, because he sleeps 3-7 hours.
There are many times of seizure, and not all of them involve losing consciousness. Did you bite your tongue or wet yourself (I realise this would be hard to tell since you were in the shower)? If so, this is strongly associated with epilepsy. My advice would be to speak to your doctor, get your blood pressure checked and he or she might arrange an EEG (a trace which monitors the electrical activity of the brain) to see if there are any abnormalities.
Hope this helped.
My husband is a type 2 diabetic and is 70 years old. Out of the blue a few months ago he had an episode in the night that I didn't witness but the symptoms were that of a seizure according to the Doctor who saw him in the hospital (he had a fall at the time and had superficial facial wounds) The doctor put him on dilantin and they did an EEG. Then he was taken off the dilantin because the EEG didn't show anythin g.
s symptoms which began recently could be diabetes. Initially I thought of epilepsy but now not so sure. He had an inital seizure a few weeks ago after a night with no sleep. He said he felt weird, his eyes rolled back and he began to convulse. Not sure how long that lasted. Since then he has been fine till yesterday and today he has said he felt dizzy and thought he may be going to have a seizure again. Today he said he felt "drunk" and then he ate his sandwich and he was ok.
A Neurologist can do all the tests mentioned above, and can pinpoint the cause of all of your current symptoms. The fact that you are having the Neurological symptoms after having had a seizure may mean something very serious is going on. If I were you, I wouldnt hesitate to get in touch with a Neurologist. Hope it goes well for you and that you feel better. Keep me posted on how it goes for you.
April 7th ER again with extreme pain on right side, dyspnea, confusion, and a drooping sensation on the right side of my face, extreme muscle stiffness right side of my neck, dysphasia on the right side of my throat. gave me a shot of Toridol. my doctor put me on a BuTrans patch (5mcg/h). I gave it 72h and nothing. increased to (10mcg/h) and it is curbing the pain. I can not stand for more then 10 minutes. Short term memory loss.
yes i did he said i would be fine and the effect would wear off
Also had twitches when and before i was on this medication
Thanks for the reply
It is important to accurately describe the seizure, timing of the day the seizure occurred and also in what setting. Then the question arises if the seizure should be treated – this is answered by looking at the risk and benefits of having a recurrent seizure and the side effects of the antiepileptics.
Ultimately, the workup will need to identify the cause of the seizure. Is it from an intracranial lesion, an epileptic syndrome, stress, etc? You will need to have neuroimaging performed (i.e,.
It still sounds like some type of seizure disorder to me. Look at the evidence. Sometimes every neurologist disagree with each others diagnoses. This in tern is not good for you and your situation. I am a 54 yr old male and I was diagnosed by a common doctor of having Generalized Anxiety Disorder way back in 1975 so, they put me on Anxiety medications but, the seizures still came along just the same.
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