Actually, back in 2021 on a day that my sister and I had to rush our mom (now almost 85 years-old), I experienced for possibly the first time (I have no memories of most days in June 2003) a wave of simple partial seizures (lasted for hours with no gap in between them and only stopped when I got home and got to sleep). And during a week in EEG Long Term Monitoring in October 2021, my partial seizures began to evolve with the Complex Partial Seizures would become semi-aware to me (false memories mixed in) and a single of these mutated complex partial seizure could last for an hour or more) during which I was sometimes interacting with my conscious mind (thus have a memory) and sometimes with my subconscious mind (no memory) with my sister, Celeste, (who our parents and I have lived with since June 2003). Another mutation is that my general full seizures are always followed by a complex partial seizure (I am unaware of either and have no memory of them) where my subconscious mind is conversing with my sister (usually the one who witnesses my seizures). And when I am finally awaken from this seizure and am in my bed or sitting in a chair or on the couch in the living room, I wonder why I am extra sore and ask her if I had a seizure. It will be then that she realizes that following the full seizure I had a complex partial seizure, thus tells me what happened. I have other features of my epilepsy that are unusual compared to other epileptics. And this is most likely from the additional brain damage (June 2003 - January 2005). This is instead of the 17 years of brain damage (August 1980 - October 1997).
The 17 years is the time between when my epilepsy came out of its dormant state in 1980 with a general full seizure a few weeks before I started high school (as partial seizures and general full seizures and a few general+ full seizures and nocturnal seizures) until I had a partial seizure in 1997 while taking a Java midterm exam and later had a few when I was on ambulatory EEG hooked up at the end of my first appointment with my first neurologist. His starting me on an anticonvulsant (Tegretol) ended the brain damage cycle.

I’ve had a few like that, but not very often. It’s when I’ve been stressed and lack of sleep happening. I try to avoid that because those will impact me for days. Hope you recover soon.

My bad ones 1-2 min take me anywhere between 5-20 to realize what's happening. My short ones I wont even realize I had a seizure wife says I will stare for 20-30 seconds then go right back to what I was doing. RNS is what made some of mine shorter.

Thanks @A MyEpilepsyTeam Member. This was definitely new to me. Fully aware. Upper completely limp and legs kicking the crap out of that island. Don’t know what my kitchen island did to me. I fell asleep reading about other types of seizures last night. It put me to sleep. Yes, holiday Monday here so I left a message for my neurologist. No docs on call at the epilepsy unit. Take care.

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Sounds like you had a full temporal lobe, or a generalized seizure (both sides of the brain). Was your body shaking or stiffened that you know of? The dizziness and incoordination you refer to makes it sound like a tonic clonic event, but I’m no doctor. I would call yours and explain what happened as soon as they open tomorrow (I know it’s a holiday today, but if you feel like it’s that important, you could always call their service to give the message that you had a 20 min event). I wish you the very best for the coming week, and hope you can get in to see your doctor! Stay safe and hopefully seizure free!