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What Happened To My Memory Or Chunks Of It.

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Muskegon, MI

O.k.I was up at 5am and up and active all day on my feet and walking around. No naps or sleeping also doing laundry while cleaning the house and I was fixing the hot water heater also.So after describing all my activities of the day my question is am wondering what happened if I had small cluster sezuires or what could I blackout on my feet seeing have chunks of no memory at all of what happened during the day. My memory of the day was I woke up at 5 and the next thing I knew it was 4 in the… read more

February 27, 2020
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Any type of epileptic seizure could potentially affect your memory, either during or after a seizure. If you have lots of seizures, memoryproblems might happen more often. ... Abnormalities in the temporal or frontal lobes of the brain are the most common reason for memoryproblems in people with epilepsy.

February 27, 2020
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

What kind of seizure do you have? Mine are Petite Mal (or Absent) seizures. Sometimes I will lose small chunks of memory when I have my seizures. It sucks. If it weren’t for my wife telling me what happened I’d be clueless. It doesn’t happen every time, thankfully.

February 27, 2020 (edited)
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I’ve got complex partial seizures absence ones as well I take seizures before I’m due to take meds sometimes I think I’ve taken my meds and actually forgot I done that yesterday morning stress doesn’t help you could be running on autopilot that you think you’ve done something eg like took meds I also suffer cluster seizures as well and it knocks the stuffing out of me and I’m tired i would try not to do too many things at once my I forget to take meds 3 to 4 times a month sometimes because I think I’ve already taken them

February 27, 2020
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I have discovered something like that does also happen to me. An example when it happens to me: ex: I watched a movie & remember all parts from the first time. Then when watching it a 2nd time I don't remember seeing that same scene. My guess is that is when an absence seizure occurs-I was not "awake" to see that part.

February 28, 2020
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

It's terrible the memory loss. When we have seizures are memory is always affected. Unfortunately if you Absence seizures you lose out more too.
I will tell you, unfortunately the antiepileptic meds we take can have the side of effect of memory loss.

February 27, 2020

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