Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-35175794-20181001052219/@comment-35175794-20181026124832

Hi LinLu,

With the Focal seizures my right hand always starts shaking first, then my speech goes south pretty quickly. So with this type I always know and can take some extra medicine to try and stop it from happening. Key would try. If I do have one anyway, I go into convulsions. My vocal cords freeze up. I hit myself a lot (not on purpose), and if I fall often.

The aftermath of this is I can't talk for anywhere for a few minutes to a day. Sometimes I can't even open my mouth at all. When I finally can talk the words I want to say are missing, or mixed up with other words. In my head I know the word but when I go to say them nothing will come out of my mouth or the wrong word will come out of my mouth.

With the Absent seizures I can't tell you if there is any warning because they give amnesia. The only reason I know I have these is because of lose of time and people witnessing them.

For example one day before my Mom lived with us, I was at her house and apparently I made homemade salsa.

I then sat down at the table because we were going to eat lunch and my mom said I just froze in place. Didn't move, blink, respond to anything she said or did for about 10 minutes.

When I came back to me, I could talk right away like normal and asked her where the salsa came from. I didn't remember making it. I forgot the whole day. It did vaguely come back to me later.

So no it is not the same. As for knowing it will happen on both I can't say on one. I have found that the Absent type only seem to happen when I am not doing anything. Such as waiting for something. No you know why I am so busy all the time. 😉

I hope this answers your questions.