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my 16 yr old son who suffers from autism cerebral palsey ocd servere to profound hearing loss and epilepsy has suffered 3 seizures in 2 weeks, 1 tonic seizure may 2, 1 grand mal may 7 and 1 grand mal may 17. he is now taking 1000mg depakote. his depakote level is 105 (he weighs 98 lbs) since his last seizure on may 17 he now cries for hours before he falls asleep, and wakes during the night crying. i think his meds r affecting him. can u please give me an idea to help him?

Also, what danger, if any, is he in, if he does not lose full consciousness or have a grand mal seizure? Thanks for any information you can provide.

I'm 20 years old... I work as a customer service rep for Directv and I had a grand mal seizure at work... The cause is unknown but I'm pretty sure I've been having seizure since but they are not grand mal my vision just goes all wacko and my body feels weird and I feel like I'm having a panic attack Does anyone know what this could be???????

Those are basically what are considered to be grand mal seizures. Petite mal seizures can be anything from a twitching of the head to a state of catatonia for a brief time, which sounds more or less like what your girl had. Please let us know what the vet says when you do get to take her in. Good luck to you! It's very scary when something is wrong with one of our furkids and we don't know what it is.

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.

Eight months ago I suffered a Grand Mal Seizure. It was my first one and I have no family history of seizures. I find that I am now dealing with memory loss. I am frustrated because my memory was pretty sharp prior to the seizure. My doctor never really said that I'd experience this and I was wondering if anyone else is dealing with this as well. I'm not on any type of meds. for seizures or anything else.

Since I have had that I suffer from Grand Mal Seizures due to scar tissue. Is this something that is common? Also after my seizures I am confused as to the year and even not remembering people in my family.On one occasion this has lasted 2 hours. I am not concerned about it but my family is very concerned about it. Any help or advice I can get would be of great help.

My 2 1/2 year old suffered a grand mal seizure last Sunday. He has never had anything like that happen before, and there was no warning. We went to the ER and were told it was a "febrile" seizure (his temp was 102.4). They administered Motrin and Tylenol and he started feeling better. He was released, and as we were walking out of the ER (literally) he started seizing again. This was about 3-hours after the first episode.

I had my first Grand-mal in July. I am 49 yrs old and thought I had never had seizures before, but now suspect that I may have had them all my life. My mom would tell me to get out of my "dream world" or to "pay attention." What would cause my blood alcohol level to be .17 when I don't drink at all. This was after a Grand-mal. Also, I have had periods of "lost time" unconsciousness up to 2-3 hours without knowing what happened. Does anybody know, or can help me?

I am a 43 healthy female. I had a gran mal seizure in 2004 where I fell backwards stiff as a board and cracked my head open on concrete. I lost all consciousness and could not tell where I was when I came to. I do not remember falling. God blessed me that day as I was about to drive my husband and 2 children home from vacation from San Antonio to Houston. I could have killed them and another driver.

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30 PM and did not pick myself up off the floor until 1:38 AM. The only other person in the house was my two year old son with me; it's anyone's guess on long I was seizing.

My 6 year old had a grand mal seizure for the first time ever two weeks ago. She ended up at the Children’s Medical Hospital in Dallas. All test game back good, except for the EEG, but it was only slightly abnormal. Last weekend, she fell while playing and hit her head on the table. She was very upset (unusual for her) and started having shaking seizures several hours later that lasted 5-20 seconds. She throw up with each seizure. She probable had about 10 of these over 3-4 hours.

I did some research on this issue since I really needed an answer.What I came up with was Multiple Systems Atrophy (MSA).Sounds like what my mother was suffering with at the time of her death.But she was in the late stages.

It turned out to be seizures unrelated, but that the intense force my body was using during the seizure that my blood sugar bottomed out. I had grand mal seizures for the next 8 months (very sporadically). Now on seizure meds, and doing fine. All the rest of my seizures, I was aware of the onset and actually would check my blood sugar and they would be normal to below 200.

Nathan was started on a diet for Seizure control...Ketogenic Diet. He had his last grand mal seizure the 3 day on the diet. His muscle and drop seizures ended 2 months later completely, but we noticed they were less harsh with each one he had til they just stopped." - excerpt from KetoGenic Diet for Seizures.

I cut wheat, dairy and corn out and started eating 8 to 10 cloves of garlic a day, using apple cider vinegar and went 9 days without any seizure activity. This was broken by a grand mal seizure while making dinner. I finally agreed to tegretol therapy. I know chewing on cloves of garlic sounds crazy, but it seems to help the most. I think it may fight the EBV infection somehow. Get a neurologist to look at you and if possible get an inpatient EEG workup to catch one of these seizures.

Finally one day at work I had a grand mal seizure witnessed by several co-workers. I went to the ER and it was confirmed I had a grand mal seizure. My neurologist put me on Lamactal and said there isn't always a reason people have seizures - does this mean it could be epilepsy? I now have short term memory loss and am in my final 30-day PIP plan for poor performance at my job due to my memory loss. I fear I'll lose any job I obtain because of my medical condition.

I saw one petit mal seizure that day but no grand mal seizures for a week. Incidentally, I brought my mom home after a brief stay at hospice to die on July 1. She had lived with me for the past 2 1/2 yrs and had been on oxygen every now and then. Nat resumed grand mal seizures the day after mom came back home. She died a few days later. A few days after that, Nat stopped having seizures.

m breathing deeply into the mask, when I black out. Apparently I had my first Grand Mal seizure and the dentist switches back to oxygen when I come back. I asked my mom what happened and she answered that I had a Grand Mal. So we tried again with the Nitrous Oxide only after a good 10 minutes of oxygen and I blacked out again. This time the Dentist was quicker to switch back to oxygen and woke back up from the second Grand Mal seizure.

My very healthy 3 year olds son recently had a grand mal seizure and is now having drop seizures. His MRI showed a cerebellar tonsillar ectopia and adenoid and tonsil enlargement. Does anyone know if this combination could cause a seizure? Or whether the cerebellar tonsillar ectopia alone could cause a seizure? Thanks!!

Grand mal seizure is the most common kind of seizure in dogs. This could cause your dog to lose consciousness and convulse. Here are the most common of seizure in dogs: Eating poison Liver disease Low or high blood sugar Kidney disease Electrolyte problems Anemia Head injury Encephalitis Strokes Brain cancer These are what you should do when your dog is having seizure. * Try to stay calm. Distance your dog from anything that could hurt him, do it gently.

The face drooping that was noted to occur before your grand-mal seizure is not a sign of that you are having a stroke before your seizure. Seizures can be partial onset, in which the seizure starts in a specific part of the brain, and then may or may not spread to other areas of the brain, leading to a grand-mal seizure (the other type of seizure is generalized: it starts throughout the brain more or less at once).

In her late teenage years she had absent seizures about once every 1 to 2 months. Then in 2007 she had a grand mal seizure due to some of the scar tissue had broken off or moved.. The Dr started her on 300 mg of trileptal. Then Aug 2008 she had another grand mal seizure. So, they up the meds to 900 mg. Her absent seizures went completely away. But, she had another seizure in Feb 2009. So, they up the meds to 1200mg.

Thanks for the reply. I have Epilepsy (grand mal and small ones) and things get worse with it when I take too much medication (as prescribed by docs). Now and then I have tremors on the left side. I have periodic hoarse voice where it's hard to speak. It feels as if I have to really force it to get the sound out. I do not have vocal nodes or anything. It comes and goes. I have noticed that after a seizure or before a seizure it's worse.

Some people may have a focal seizure which may then secondarily generalize into a grand mal seizure. Others may have multiple foci for seizures, but this is less common. The majority of seizures can be effectively managed with medication. If you are on a medicine and it is maxed out, another medication can be added. Once you have failed (either by not being controlled or not tolerating the medication) several medications, epilepsy surgery may be an option.

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