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Brief Jerks And Twitches In Left Hand And Left Leg

A MyEpilepsyTeam Member asked a question 💭
Southampton, UK

Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone experiences brief jerks/twitches? I get them in my left hand and left leg most days. Is that seizure related? Sometimes I get the funny feeling with and sometimes it's just a brief like twitch. They happen almost everyday.

March 18 (edited)
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member You can then have two different types "drug induced"/ unknown cause or Myoclonic epilepsy which normally comes from the frontal lobe.

March 20
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Sometimes when I am just sitting or laying down my foot twitch’s/just moves a tiny bit without any effort from me. This happens occasionally I don’t take much notice to it. I let it happen and then it ends.

March 27
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I could tell you a lot about them a twitch one is a attack stutter is an attack in a grand mal is 4 attacks in one

March 25
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Before I had brain surgery I would always have my hands and legs twitching every time I'd get out of bed. I would sit on the side of my bed for a moment before I stood up. First my hands were shaking and then my right leg and then my left leg. My doctor said that these were petty mal seizures. Today I don't have any shaking. The shaking stopped after I had brain surgery in 1990.

March 25
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I have some twitches in my hands and head/neck sometimes. "Sometimes I feel like its the beginning of a seizure that is being controlled by my medication. The seizures that happen with no warning whatsoever."

March 21

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