|
|
#288653 - 09/02/07 11:30 AM
Epilepsy
|
LoveBritish
Moderator
Registered: 12/03/04
Posts: 2160
Loc: Texas
|
Offline
|
|
Does anyone know about Epilepsy?
Apparently, one of my friends has it, but he’s very hesitant about telling people (he says people treat him different when they find out) and I didn’t know he had it until last night when he had a seizer in front of me, his oldest daughter, and another friend of ours. It scared me to death! He said he hasn’t had one since he was a kid (he’s 28 now).
Can someone just give me some information on it if they know anything? I’d really like to learn more about my friend’s condition. I mean I've heard about it, I've known people who have it, but I'm really not sure what it is exactly. I'm just curious
_________________________
things we've learned from the movies - - when they're alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other...
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#288673 - 09/02/07 07:00 PM
Re: Epilepsy
[Re: ]
|
Ineligible
Administrator
Registered: 08/09/01
Posts: 13287
|
Online
|
|
It's no longer recommended that you try to put something in their mouth, as it usually makes things worse.
The wikipedia article on epilepsy has a good section on responding to a seizure.
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#288707 - 09/03/07 12:45 AM
Re: Epilepsy
[Re: Ineligible]
|
jamesbond007
Registered: 07/18/07
Posts: 32
Loc: NJ, USA
|
|
Offline
|
|
Lol i took a look at the wiki and I always thought you could swallow your toung from what I heard from people. 
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#288728 - 09/03/07 04:43 AM
Re: Epilepsy
[Re: LoveBritish]
|
Hawker23
member
Registered: 11/10/06
Posts: 771
Loc: Canada
|
|
Offline
|
|
Hopefully he wears a medic alert bracelet; otherwise it makes treating him a real SOB.
_________________________
"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!"
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#288811 - 09/03/07 10:58 PM
Re: Epilepsy
[Re: LoveBritish]
|
LoveBritish
Moderator
Registered: 12/03/04
Posts: 2160
Loc: Texas
|
|
Offline
|
|
We were on four-wheelers driving around having fun when we decided to stop so he and my other friend could have a smoke break. He complained of being hot and feeling really strange, so he got off the four-wheeler and started walking around; he started swaying and stumbling and then he just hit the ground. His eyes just went blank and his body went limp and after he hit the ground he started shaking and twitching. It scared all of us!
Thankfully it happened when he wasn’t driving because he could have wrecked and killed himself and his child. He was rushed to the emergency room as soon as we got him home. He’ll be going to a neurologist sometime this week to be positive it was a seizure he had.
_________________________
things we've learned from the movies - - when they're alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other...
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
|
#288827 - 09/04/07 12:11 AM
Re: Epilepsy
[Re: LoveBritish]
|
Celithrathien
member
Registered: 07/16/03
Posts: 743
Loc: New Jersey
|
|
Offline
|
|
one of my best friends has epilepsy..i found out back in 3rd grade, but that was the last time she's had a seizure. all i really know about it is that she had really bad migraines a few weeks before her seizure, and that the neurologist told her that there was a connection..but i really dont remember much. i wish i could be of more help
|
|
Top
|
|
|
|
Moderator: Amanda, Amz, cenfath, ClassyBlackWoman, Ineligible, LoveBritish, NtroducingMyself, Roc, sdp, ~AngelWitch~
|
