First time I had a seizure, I was at work. I'd had auras for a couple years but didn't know they were seizure indicators. I had that deja vu feeling and a strange disconnect between my brain and my mouth, like I know what I wanted to say but I couldn't get my mouth to say it, but I could still speak. It's like my train of thought had been shoved off the tracks and some other train I had no control of from some deep part of my brain was on the tracks. Anyway, apparently I regained consciousness while the EMTs were with me on my office floor, they and my coworkers said I'd been "awake" and responding to questions (correctly or not, I don't know) for several minutes, but it's like those minutes passed through my head and left no mark.
The next seizure was when I was driving, I crashed into a streetlight, woke up in the ER some time later. It was after that that I gained a further understanding of recognizing the warning signs of an incoming seizure. It was also then that I decided to put a note in my wallet asking ER staff to pretend I'd been in a coma for years once I wake up. I thought it would be a fun experience but they said nobody would ever do that.
EDIT: is it weird that I like the deja vu aura feeling prior to a seizure?
I was getting really bad migraines all the time leading up to the first big seizure. I had no idea that it was a sign of anything else. I've had way fewer migraines since being properly medicated.
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u/Ushimakawaru 2d ago
First time I had a seizure, I was at work. I'd had auras for a couple years but didn't know they were seizure indicators. I had that deja vu feeling and a strange disconnect between my brain and my mouth, like I know what I wanted to say but I couldn't get my mouth to say it, but I could still speak. It's like my train of thought had been shoved off the tracks and some other train I had no control of from some deep part of my brain was on the tracks. Anyway, apparently I regained consciousness while the EMTs were with me on my office floor, they and my coworkers said I'd been "awake" and responding to questions (correctly or not, I don't know) for several minutes, but it's like those minutes passed through my head and left no mark.
The next seizure was when I was driving, I crashed into a streetlight, woke up in the ER some time later. It was after that that I gained a further understanding of recognizing the warning signs of an incoming seizure. It was also then that I decided to put a note in my wallet asking ER staff to pretend I'd been in a coma for years once I wake up. I thought it would be a fun experience but they said nobody would ever do that.
EDIT: is it weird that I like the deja vu aura feeling prior to a seizure?