Sometimes I will get warnings before and sometimes it just happens out of nowhere. The warnings I do get will be I keep getting confused and what I call is "stuck" where I will stare blankly without being able to move for a few seconds and forget to breathe then snap out of it and that can keep reoccurring so I'll take a pill or two - or I'll be very stressed out and get very bad anxiety where I'm shaking non-stop or twitching so I'll take a pill or two. Hoping that by the time it kicks in it'll stop whatever's going on.

There are many people with epilepsy who get a feeling, wierd sensation, smells , hear something that's not there and ect. Those are auras or a warning sign, the you may be going into a seizure. Then there are the many of us like myself, who don't have these warnings or auras. My family and friends will alert me if I had a seizure. There are times when I would bicker or disagree that I had the seizure, but in the back of my head , I know they are right.

Karen,
When I first began having Grand Mal seizures, no auras, nothing. Just came on and I had no idea. It was after the Temporal Lobe Surgeries, I began to have an Aura and Complex Partial seizures also.

When I was young, my seizures were random but when I was 10 to 12 I knew the signs. About all the time I start with a 'space outs' or my legs are frozen. Most of the time I have the 'space outs'. My last frozen legs are about a year and a haft ago. The funny thing is what calms me down is deep breathing and/or alternative rock music!

I usually get auras. They start out with a feeling of being nervous.