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You Are Supposed To Call For Help After 5 Min + Of Having A Seizure, How Do You Know You've Been Out That Long If You Pass Out, By Yourself

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Lakewood, CO

I am just curious, I have had a seizure where I was told three days after I had one, and was informed about it, I wasn't let known the details as for the amount of time and what took place and such etc, but I think that is a good? If someone is with and knows what to do, that is ok, but like I said, If you aren't around anyone and you don't have any watch or pass out, faint, black out, how do you est you have been unconscious, just curious about this ❓ I'm asking, not hoping it happens to… read more

May 24
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Going to check out the watches ! Thank goodness for the cameras . 🙏

May 24
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

They should invent a watch that monitors that I mean they practically have inventions for other health stuff

May 24
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Ibwas told start the timer and at 2.5 mins call the ambulance or if having too many back to back.

May 26
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I have been on vacation a few times through the years and a couple of times I woke up in the middle of the night on a fire lane at the different places I was visiting and I was with different friends, which caused major embarrassment for me. It does seem that after such things the certain people that I was with then have distanced themselves
from me. Oh well, if they were truly friends they would be able to accept me & my "problem". Then I was diagnosed (shortly after those episodes) with nocturnal (nighttime) epilepsy.

May 25
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I feel the same as Irma3. Determined to be independent and don't like being an inconvenience to others

May 25

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