About Seizures…
Simple Partial Seizure, Category Motor seizures, or simply a Simple Partial Motor Seizure
These cause a change in muscle activity. For example, a person may have abnormal movements such as jerking of a finger or stiffening of part of the body. These movements may spread, either staying on one side of the body (opposite the affected area of the brain) or extending to both sides. Other examples are weakness, which can even affect speech, and coordinated actions such as laughter or automatic hand movements. The person may or may not be aware of these movements.
I have these constantly. They are so irritating and scary at the same time. They are scary because they are the precursor to a Grand Mal! Whenever I have a Grand Mal Seizure, it ALWAYS, ALWAYS starts out with a Simple Partial Motor Seizure. It’s irritating because some days I twitch and jerk around so bad all day long and my eyes twitch too so I can’t see well or read for shit and performing the most basic tasks, like wiping my ass becomes a freaking chore instead of a simple quick “thing you just do.” And try cooking and measuring out spices when you are randomly twitching and jerking every few seconds or at random intervals every minute or two! Mmmmmm nothing like SUPER GARLIC Spaghetti – Twitchy Tedd Style :o)
Complex Partial Seizures
Here’s a typical story: “Harold’s spells begin with a warning; he says he’s going to have a seizure and usually sits down. If I ask him how he feels, he just says ‘I feel it.’ Then he makes a funny face, a mixture of surprise and distress. During the seizure he may look at me when I call his name but he never answers. He just stares and makes odd mouth movements, as if he’s tasting something. Sometimes he’ll grab the arm of the chair and squeeze it. He may also pull at his shirt as though he’s picking lint off of it. After a few minutes, when he’s coming out of it, he asks a lot of questions. He never remembers his ‘warning’ or these questions. The seizures make him tired; if he has two in the same day, he often goes to sleep after the second one.”
They usually last between 30 seconds and 2 minutes. Afterward, the person may be tired or confused for about 15 minutes and may not be fully normal for hours.
These seizures usually start in a small area of the temporal lobe or frontal lobe of the brain. They quickly involve other areas of the brain that affect alertness and awareness. So even though the person’s eyes are open and they may make movements that seem to have a purpose, in reality “nobody’s home.” If the symptoms are subtle, other people may think the person is just daydreaming.
Some of these seizures (usually ones beginning in the temporal lobe) start with a simple partial seizure. Also called an aura, this warning seizure often includes an odd feeling in the stomach
I call these “Stomach Episodes” or “Stomach Zones” and when they start out, they are very, VERY uncomfortable and painful. The onset, the “warning” can last anywhere from a couple minutes to half an hour. When the seizure strikes, I turn into a “mind zombie,” a “drooling idiot” for a few minutes. When I return to normal, I’m always real, real tired and confused and I can hardly walk or perform basic functions for half an hour to a couple hours afterwards. I’m usually wiped out tired for the rest of that day and I’m not normal the following day or two and am tired for a couple days afterwards also. The worst part about these seizures is that they seem to be the most severe, or strongest/largest seizures because they are also almost always, without question, accompanied by a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack or “mini-stroke”). Fortunately, I’ve only had TIA’s, which your brain can heal from unlike a stroke which your brain usually can’t fully heal from. So, I’ll have a droopy eye and a droopy mouth for a couple weeks while my brain is healing that blood vessel and the affected brain cells and nerves and slowly my eye and mouth return to normal…well mostly. I’ve had so many of them that I have a partial, permanent, oh so slight droopiness on my right side. Sheri may be able to see it, but I’d be surprised if she can. I can feel it in my muscles and the surrounding muscles. I just can’t relax my face and have those muscles automatically “pull” the corner of my eye and the corner of my mouth where they are supposed to be, so now they fucking droop god damn it. I’m 30-something (ask Sheri, she knows how old I am) and I’ve had so many “strokes” that I have a droopy fucking face! OK, enough whining…
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