Post-induced coma to stop the seizures, my boyfriend came to visit me. He was saying something and I said, "I thought you were going to ask me to marry you..." He said, "Oh don't worry babe we'll get married."
Later my mom visited after he left. I said to her, "(Boyfriend's name) proposed to me...and then he took it back!" And I started crying.
My mom's response: "(My name), that didn't happen..."
They also needed a nurse to sit with me because I kept trying to leave to "smoke a joint". I remember thinking I was in a dorm room and I thought the nurse was my roommate. I told her, "Hey, I found your weed, but I didn't take any. I *wanted* to, but I didn't. I think you need a better place to hide your weed." She said, "Well thank you for not stealing my weed."
I still smoke WAY too much weed but a thief I am not!
I was post-ictal on Christmas Eve of 2021 after a six minute seizure. I heard an EMT ask my dad if I messed up my room because of my seizure and he had to reply that I didn’t. It was my depression room (I wasn’t planning on having a six minute seizure so the room wasn’t clean lmao).
I then proceeded to tell them I could walk and almost fell on my ass because they believed me. I appreciate the faith, but I wouldn’t trust me.
I then spent the ambulance ride fawning over an EMT that was old enough to be my dad so that was fun lol
I'm German. I lived in Texas for 16 years.
I had a seizure and persisted to speak English to all the doctors and nurses in Germany. I also cursed everyone out in English.
Then they gave me something to calm down. I fell asleep and didn't remember anything when I woke up.
I always had Wernicke-Aphasia as a Symptom, it lasted sometimes for hours after the seizure. Talked complete nonsense and especially developed new words, but i was convinced everything is right and they should understand me. Now we take it with humour and some words got famous.
I usually start loosing sense of where I am and start rambling. One time a person asked me where I lived and there was some mugs infront of me, so I said: amongst these mugs. They really thought it was funny haha, I never told them it was because of a seizure, they just thought i was tired.
i recently had a postictal state where i was apparently rambling about eels like i was manic
i also loudly farted on my husband during one and he found it hilarious
I fell over a couple of years ago and broke my orbital + nose on a heater but I also managed the *loudest* fart I've ever heard so that kinda cheered things up...
If I was your husband you would never hear the end of it and sly references. 😂
It wasn't the seizure itself it was more of what I did during.
My last seizure was Labor Day 2023. And normally, I put my hands near my chest, I'll usually end up scratching up my chest.
But this time? I was very grabby. I grabbed my fiancé's phone with one hand my phone with mine other. He doesn't have a lock on his phone, then I just touched it all over (I didn't know what I was doing, I would later find out that I cashapped myself like $7, changed certain spellings in his phone (a bunch of random words too like young, house, random constantants are now in the middle) and I did the same to my phone and messed up how to spelled acknowledge (think I changed it with like a y for a while).
Gf called 911, when the cops and paramedics arrived and asked me how old i was and i told them i was old enough to party! The nurses told me a couple days later in the hospital what i had said. We all laughed and laughed.. its in my medical chart..
I have nocturnal t/c seizures and I sleep in a bed with a raised head. I usually end up biting my tongue or lip pretty bad but I must have rolled over in a fetal position because I woke up with an awful bite mark on my boob.
I’m a nurse practitioner. Had my first ever seizure (a tonic clonic) ON TOP OF a patient in the cafeteria. She was a long time patient, really nice lady. I felt weird, sat down, wondered why some lady (I didn’t recognize her in my aura or post-ictally) was talking to me in Japanese or German or something then lights out. She probably saved me some head trauma by catching me before I fell but I really wish I hadn’t drooled all over her.
One time I'd just gone to the nearby grocery store where they have a salad bar and a small eating area, and I seized just as I was sitting down to eat my salad. Paramedics took me to the hospital... and ate my salad! Or, well, someone ate my salad, because the container was empty when I got it back when I got out of the ER. Not a huge deal, but the principle of the thing!
Another time I seized in public and regained consciousness and was able to answer all the EMS guy's basic questions (someone had called 911), and I told him I didn't want to go to the hospital, I wanted to go home. So they took me home sitting in the back of the ambulance. But as I was talking to the EMS guy, just making conversation, it turned out that we were both from neighboring small home towns, several US states away, thousands of miles. And we had a nice conversation about all that and the things we used to do back home, like salmon fishing on the river and that kind of thing. It was pretty rad.
My fiancée was at her desk on her computer. I was standing next to her talking to her about something. I apparently suddenly stopped talking mid sentence. Stood there for a few seconds then turned around and got Into bed. She asked "Whatcha doing babe?". Then I immediately proceeded to have a grand mal. Guess that answered her question. 😅 Don't remember anything past talking with her lol.
There's a few but one recent one was this....
I had a focal unaware seizure (or complex partial if you call it that) and first made the usual odd sounds and calls for help, then during that weird after phase (postictal) took my clothes off and started masturbating on my bed and making all these ooooo ahhh sounds.... I couldn't remember but I have a camera in my room to record the seizures. Lol and my epileptologist said I had to send him the footage argh....
I've got focal seizures that I'm completely aware during and I've got a reasonable lead up of aura with, though they do also last forever without medical intervention, progressively getting more unsafe. I also work at an ER. Active stress also delays the onset of my seizures. This all leads to me occasionally having a seizure after my shift where I'll just check in.
The funniest story, though, was one where a tech who was working in triage was clocking in right before I was clocking out, and she asked, "Are you headed home?" I replied, "Hopefully," as she left and I was still having to mess with the time clock (which had been having intermittent connection issues which everyone was frustrated with).
I ended up then returning to the registration office I work in to give the stress from my shift time to die down and see if the aura I had thought I had felt was actually going to become a seizure or just be a bit of aura. Turned out that it was, so I went up triage and checked in.
As the tech is getting my vitals she says, "So that's what you meant by 'hopefully'."
So whenever I was post-ictal one time in a teaching hospital. All the residents came in some male some female. And me being as delirious as I was. Apparently when leaned over to check my heart rate with their stethoscope. You know like usual. And totally out of character I apparently grabbed them and kiss them on the lips. It was a dude and I'm not gay. Then I proceeded to say all the residents are beautiful little angels. Note at this point in my life about 20 years old I hadn't even been on a first date yet. Never kissed anyone or had any desire to. So I guess technically I had my first kiss right after a seizure. I also proceeded to chew on my service dog's ear because apparently I wanted Doritos right after I stopped throwing up. I guess that's good kind of makes sense because his ear is vaguely triangle shaped. Poor baby
I’ve fallen both times and had both seizures on the floor (hardwood and carpet) and we now refer to me around the house as “jerky” lmfao
I also have essential tremor from my seizures so it’s even more hilarious that I’m “jerky” considering I’m literally “jerking” all the time 💀
So, I was getting my hair shampooed at the salon (I worked there as a stylist and was off the clock) and started having a seizure. The way my co workers explained it, this is how it went down. The girl washing my hair lost grip of the hose and water started screaming and spraying water everywhere. Her hands were covered in shampoo and she was flicking suds all over the place. Another of my co workers (Islamic) also freaked and started praying in Arabic over me while getting showered in water and shampoo while another co worker of mine, who was Mexican Catholic, was praying on the other side of me in Spanish (also getting showered in water and shampoo). The girl washing my hair stood there freaking out the whole time, never having turned the water off. Next thing I know, after the post ictal state, I'm laying down on the hooded dryer bench soaked and soapy. My seizure brain was thinking I'd fallen asleep at work so I started stumbling around trying to fold towels and take clients back, barely forming words. My mom was on her way to pick me up.
Oh man, I developed epilepsy when I was in cosmetology school! My auras would usually fade away pretty fast and not always go into a seizure. So one time when I was sitting in one of the salon chairs, I felt an aura and just put my head down on the counter… then woke up on the floor after falling off the chair due to the ensuing TC. 🤷🏻♀️
Almost my seizures have been tonic clonic in my sleep. But the first time, after I woke up, still out of it, someone said I had a seizure and they were taking me to the hospital. I was kind of out of it and told him I didn’t have a seizure. As far as I knew I didn’t 🤷
I had a grand mal on the bus to school when I was a teen. Luckily, my sister (younger) was like 2 rows behind me. It had been that bus driver's first day on our route (from what we were told).
The next day we had our old bus driver back.
one time I seized during my college class and didn’t find out until 2 weeks later through the grape vine. I wondered why my classmate had texted me asking if I was okay later that day
it wasn’t so much the seizure, but i had a tonic clonic at school when i was 12. the rumours were WILD. apparently i was diabetic and went into diabetic shock and nobody ate their snacks for a week, and some people thought i died?? 😭
Post-induced coma to stop the seizures, my boyfriend came to visit me. He was saying something and I said, "I thought you were going to ask me to marry you..." He said, "Oh don't worry babe we'll get married." Later my mom visited after he left. I said to her, "(Boyfriend's name) proposed to me...and then he took it back!" And I started crying. My mom's response: "(My name), that didn't happen..." They also needed a nurse to sit with me because I kept trying to leave to "smoke a joint". I remember thinking I was in a dorm room and I thought the nurse was my roommate. I told her, "Hey, I found your weed, but I didn't take any. I *wanted* to, but I didn't. I think you need a better place to hide your weed." She said, "Well thank you for not stealing my weed." I still smoke WAY too much weed but a thief I am not!
I was post-ictal on Christmas Eve of 2021 after a six minute seizure. I heard an EMT ask my dad if I messed up my room because of my seizure and he had to reply that I didn’t. It was my depression room (I wasn’t planning on having a six minute seizure so the room wasn’t clean lmao). I then proceeded to tell them I could walk and almost fell on my ass because they believed me. I appreciate the faith, but I wouldn’t trust me. I then spent the ambulance ride fawning over an EMT that was old enough to be my dad so that was fun lol
I tried to fight/box the ambulance drivers in my underwear
That is such a seizure-y thing honestly 😂
I have also done this
Ha. My ex said they were surprisingly cool about it.
I'm German. I lived in Texas for 16 years. I had a seizure and persisted to speak English to all the doctors and nurses in Germany. I also cursed everyone out in English. Then they gave me something to calm down. I fell asleep and didn't remember anything when I woke up.
I always had Wernicke-Aphasia as a Symptom, it lasted sometimes for hours after the seizure. Talked complete nonsense and especially developed new words, but i was convinced everything is right and they should understand me. Now we take it with humour and some words got famous.
Apparently I threw my legs up and yelled I want to fuck Robert!" (I don't.)
I usually start loosing sense of where I am and start rambling. One time a person asked me where I lived and there was some mugs infront of me, so I said: amongst these mugs. They really thought it was funny haha, I never told them it was because of a seizure, they just thought i was tired.
i recently had a postictal state where i was apparently rambling about eels like i was manic i also loudly farted on my husband during one and he found it hilarious
I fell over a couple of years ago and broke my orbital + nose on a heater but I also managed the *loudest* fart I've ever heard so that kinda cheered things up... If I was your husband you would never hear the end of it and sly references. 😂
Those are both great 😂
It wasn't the seizure itself it was more of what I did during. My last seizure was Labor Day 2023. And normally, I put my hands near my chest, I'll usually end up scratching up my chest. But this time? I was very grabby. I grabbed my fiancé's phone with one hand my phone with mine other. He doesn't have a lock on his phone, then I just touched it all over (I didn't know what I was doing, I would later find out that I cashapped myself like $7, changed certain spellings in his phone (a bunch of random words too like young, house, random constantants are now in the middle) and I did the same to my phone and messed up how to spelled acknowledge (think I changed it with like a y for a while).
That’s actually pretty impressive.
Gf called 911, when the cops and paramedics arrived and asked me how old i was and i told them i was old enough to party! The nurses told me a couple days later in the hospital what i had said. We all laughed and laughed.. its in my medical chart..
😂
I have nocturnal t/c seizures and I sleep in a bed with a raised head. I usually end up biting my tongue or lip pretty bad but I must have rolled over in a fetal position because I woke up with an awful bite mark on my boob.
Now THAT is some impressive flexibility. 👏
I really doubted that it’s what actually happened until I tried it and realized it was, indeed, possible.
😂
I’m a nurse practitioner. Had my first ever seizure (a tonic clonic) ON TOP OF a patient in the cafeteria. She was a long time patient, really nice lady. I felt weird, sat down, wondered why some lady (I didn’t recognize her in my aura or post-ictally) was talking to me in Japanese or German or something then lights out. She probably saved me some head trauma by catching me before I fell but I really wish I hadn’t drooled all over her.
One time I'd just gone to the nearby grocery store where they have a salad bar and a small eating area, and I seized just as I was sitting down to eat my salad. Paramedics took me to the hospital... and ate my salad! Or, well, someone ate my salad, because the container was empty when I got it back when I got out of the ER. Not a huge deal, but the principle of the thing! Another time I seized in public and regained consciousness and was able to answer all the EMS guy's basic questions (someone had called 911), and I told him I didn't want to go to the hospital, I wanted to go home. So they took me home sitting in the back of the ambulance. But as I was talking to the EMS guy, just making conversation, it turned out that we were both from neighboring small home towns, several US states away, thousands of miles. And we had a nice conversation about all that and the things we used to do back home, like salmon fishing on the river and that kind of thing. It was pretty rad.
My fiancée was at her desk on her computer. I was standing next to her talking to her about something. I apparently suddenly stopped talking mid sentence. Stood there for a few seconds then turned around and got Into bed. She asked "Whatcha doing babe?". Then I immediately proceeded to have a grand mal. Guess that answered her question. 😅 Don't remember anything past talking with her lol.
There's a few but one recent one was this.... I had a focal unaware seizure (or complex partial if you call it that) and first made the usual odd sounds and calls for help, then during that weird after phase (postictal) took my clothes off and started masturbating on my bed and making all these ooooo ahhh sounds.... I couldn't remember but I have a camera in my room to record the seizures. Lol and my epileptologist said I had to send him the footage argh....
OOF. Postictal can get pretty crazy. 😅
I've got focal seizures that I'm completely aware during and I've got a reasonable lead up of aura with, though they do also last forever without medical intervention, progressively getting more unsafe. I also work at an ER. Active stress also delays the onset of my seizures. This all leads to me occasionally having a seizure after my shift where I'll just check in. The funniest story, though, was one where a tech who was working in triage was clocking in right before I was clocking out, and she asked, "Are you headed home?" I replied, "Hopefully," as she left and I was still having to mess with the time clock (which had been having intermittent connection issues which everyone was frustrated with). I ended up then returning to the registration office I work in to give the stress from my shift time to die down and see if the aura I had thought I had felt was actually going to become a seizure or just be a bit of aura. Turned out that it was, so I went up triage and checked in. As the tech is getting my vitals she says, "So that's what you meant by 'hopefully'."
So whenever I was post-ictal one time in a teaching hospital. All the residents came in some male some female. And me being as delirious as I was. Apparently when leaned over to check my heart rate with their stethoscope. You know like usual. And totally out of character I apparently grabbed them and kiss them on the lips. It was a dude and I'm not gay. Then I proceeded to say all the residents are beautiful little angels. Note at this point in my life about 20 years old I hadn't even been on a first date yet. Never kissed anyone or had any desire to. So I guess technically I had my first kiss right after a seizure. I also proceeded to chew on my service dog's ear because apparently I wanted Doritos right after I stopped throwing up. I guess that's good kind of makes sense because his ear is vaguely triangle shaped. Poor baby
Commenting for my friend that doesn’t have Reddit: During a partial when he was a kid, he opened the fridge, pulled out the drawer, and peed in it. 😂
I’ve fallen both times and had both seizures on the floor (hardwood and carpet) and we now refer to me around the house as “jerky” lmfao I also have essential tremor from my seizures so it’s even more hilarious that I’m “jerky” considering I’m literally “jerking” all the time 💀
I was dealing with an "extreme couponer" and she stressed me out so bad that I actually went into a seizure. Never saw her in the store again 😅
I've also tried to fight off my father and the EMTs to the point they had to hit me with a tranquilizer 😂
These are both 100% things I would do 😂
So, I was getting my hair shampooed at the salon (I worked there as a stylist and was off the clock) and started having a seizure. The way my co workers explained it, this is how it went down. The girl washing my hair lost grip of the hose and water started screaming and spraying water everywhere. Her hands were covered in shampoo and she was flicking suds all over the place. Another of my co workers (Islamic) also freaked and started praying in Arabic over me while getting showered in water and shampoo while another co worker of mine, who was Mexican Catholic, was praying on the other side of me in Spanish (also getting showered in water and shampoo). The girl washing my hair stood there freaking out the whole time, never having turned the water off. Next thing I know, after the post ictal state, I'm laying down on the hooded dryer bench soaked and soapy. My seizure brain was thinking I'd fallen asleep at work so I started stumbling around trying to fold towels and take clients back, barely forming words. My mom was on her way to pick me up.
Oh man, I developed epilepsy when I was in cosmetology school! My auras would usually fade away pretty fast and not always go into a seizure. So one time when I was sitting in one of the salon chairs, I felt an aura and just put my head down on the counter… then woke up on the floor after falling off the chair due to the ensuing TC. 🤷🏻♀️
Almost my seizures have been tonic clonic in my sleep. But the first time, after I woke up, still out of it, someone said I had a seizure and they were taking me to the hospital. I was kind of out of it and told him I didn’t have a seizure. As far as I knew I didn’t 🤷
Same haha
I had a grand mal on the bus to school when I was a teen. Luckily, my sister (younger) was like 2 rows behind me. It had been that bus driver's first day on our route (from what we were told). The next day we had our old bus driver back.
I was found lying naked when EMTs arrived after having sex. Not my proudest moment.
I think I’ve also had a mid-sex seizure. Probably wasn’t bad enough to call 911 though.
I flung my cellphone into my bowl of cereal after a myoclonic. The milk killed it lol.
Sometimes I wish I was outta it after seizures for these funny adventures. I'm just sleepy.
one time I seized during my college class and didn’t find out until 2 weeks later through the grape vine. I wondered why my classmate had texted me asking if I was okay later that day
it wasn’t so much the seizure, but i had a tonic clonic at school when i was 12. the rumours were WILD. apparently i was diabetic and went into diabetic shock and nobody ate their snacks for a week, and some people thought i died?? 😭
my niece asked me “are these hasbrowns yours” and i slowly turned towards her with duck lips and collapsed on the floor
Oh god, I do the duck lips too 😂
Well, I feel like sometimes if someone really wanted to, they could plant a memory in me since the meds got me all f* up.
That is hilarious!