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Seizure First Aid. 

Learn it. Share it. Know it. Use it. 

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i am literally never going to sleep early ever again. tell me why i woke up at 2:30ish AM and immediatly had a seizure like WHY was that NECESSARY-

AGAIN???

i am literally never going to sleep early ever again. tell me why i woke up at 2:30ish AM and immediatly had a seizure like WHY was that NECESSARY-

This is good. I realized something though; what if people can’t differentiate between a seizure and hypoglycemic shock? Where one could recover from the episode, the other could die if left untreated and not provided medical help ASAP.

Seizure First Aid. 

Learn it. Share it. Know it. Use it. 

Guess who had a seizure last night. 🙃

I don't even know why. I've been doing well with my medicine. All I was doing was playing Dayshift at Freddy's, a very goofy, non-stressful game.

Don't worry. I'm mostly okay. I was conscious the entire time, and I didn't even have a huge headache afterward. The main issue is that I bit my tongue, so the sides of my tongue hurt.

I'll be on the lookout for more seizure activity over the next few days, just to be safe, but I promise that I'll be okay.

Seizure First Aid. 

Learn it. Share it. Know it. Use it. 

omg epilepsy gang 😍😍

Here’s some Seizure Awareness:

If you see someone having a grand mal (full body) seizure, please remember:

1.) Don’t Panic, Don’t restrain. Start timing the seizure.

2.) Bring them onto the ground if they’re on top of any surface (such as a bench, couch, or bed) so they cannot fall off and hurt themselves

3.) Roll them onto their side so they cannot choke on anything. Do NOT put anything in their mouth.

4.) Move away any dangers/hazards and cushion their heads.

5.) Call an ambulance.

If the seizure lasts more than 5 minutes, the person is blue around the lips, not responding after the convulsions are over, or has never had a seizure before this may be the sign of something severe and proper medical attention is required immediately. Seizures after 5 minutes can cause permanent, severe brain damage.

It is always important to know what to do in the case of a seizure.

Too many people experience epileptic or non-epileptic seizures and are unsure that, if they were to occur, the people around them would know what to do to help. That is a terrifying thought.

Thinking about Scott having Focal impaired awareness seizures (which occur occur on one side of the brain) due to his brain injury not only affecting his mutation but contributing to epilepsy. Unlike tonic clonic seizures (the ones where people jerk and seize up) focal seizures can be hard to notice and can often come across as the person daydreaming or being drunk.

When Logan first meets Scott he just thinks he’s being an asshole when while Logan’s having a conversation with him, Scott stops talking and stares at Logan for 3 minutes which irritates Logan so he shoves him away and storms off, leaving Scott confused as to why Logan just disappeared mid convo and why he’s on the floor in a panic.

Scott was only diagnosed with epilepsy when he came to live with Xavier was immediately able to clock on when he was having a seizure hwat with being a telepath.

When he was living at the orphanage, the staff just assumed he was inattentive and stupid because he’d seem to daydreaming and would sometimes seem confused when asked a question and answering with slurred gibberish, so he’d often get detention.

the other kids thought he was a weirdo because he’d start picking at his clothes and wandering around aimlessly.

Thankfully after coming to live with Xavier he was finally medicated and what Logan thinks is him being a health freak with his keto diet is actually to help manage his epilepsy. So the incidences are significantly reduced compared to when he was a kid though they are still triggered when he’s stressed or hasn’t slept which Scott being Scott is more often than not

Jean ofc was always able to tell when he was about to have a seizure and often calms him down telepathically when he becomes panicked or confused because it’s not a good idea to restrain or touch him during a seizure having nearly broke his hand when he lashed out against jack winters who thought it was a good idea to manhandle him when he took to long to answer a question, fortunately for jack he turned into his diamond form but Scott still broke his nose

Scott is reticent about telling Logan about his epilepsy because he feels he gets enough judgemental nonsense from him (Jean is like are u serious)

Logan finds out anyway when they’re on a mission together that ends with them being taken captive, their gear being taken away meaning Scott doesn’t have access to his medication. The stressful situation leads to Logan assuming Scott is going crazy when he starts wandering around the cell and trying to take his clothes off including his visor! Logan also notices that Scott’s scent starts to change like it sometimes does before Jean or hank start asking Scott if he’s alright

It doesn’t occur to Logan what might be going on until Scott falls to the floor and starts having a ‘classic seizure’ (in severe cases a partial seizure can spread to a generalised seizure affecting both parts of the brain). Logan’s immensely grateful hank forced him to do the mandatory first aid course because his first instinct was to pin Scott down to get him to stop, when Scott comes to he’s exhausted and just replies never had one of those before.

After Logan has unofficially included himself in the Scott summers seizure watch much to Scott’s chagrin because he’s fine now and Jean keeps giving him an I told you you should have told him look but secretly he thinks it’s kind of sweet

Bored here's the 80's

Cannibalistic fire is my mind,Giving my life to live with all the strife.Determined to fail to achieve my goal in this long flight,now give me the kinda news that breaks my mind.Is it good or bad I don't know so what can you tell me don't worry just be bold.You don't have to lie for this is the tale of a man with the fiendish mind at almost all times.Do you understand that those crimes are my trophy's never to be caught every fucking time.So why don't you just stop calling me good cause all this time is my time,and in my time i  never cry for i exist for these strife's.

My old friend depakote -_-

I've been on every drug in the world,and the strongest hallucinogens at the same time (pcp,lsd,extacy)+plus some meth and coke one crazy night.But even all those combined came no where close to the strength of depakote.Don't know how long I can last on depakote but ima try as much as possible cause these seizures hurt so fucking much.Even with my body full of scars and so many injury's that couldn't even get me to take meds,but when i started to have them weekly I saw the effects on my brain memory problems and slurred speech that lasted more than a month after a seizure were the last straw.Even though depakote destroyed my life once hopefully it doesn't again.

So while I did meet the reflex criteria for serotonin syndrome, I have absolutely no Idea what's wrong at this point.

I was fine yesterday aside from nausea, vomiting, and Dissociation, but I woke up this morning to the WORST pressure headache I've ever felt. Ears ringing and fuzzy double vision, too.

I got up to see a a shower would help, and found that walking and going back and forth between deep breathing and hyperventilating helped. So I did that for about half an hour before my chest got tight and it felt like I couldn't get enough oxygen.

I called an ambulance and one EMT was very nice, the other was somewhat rude.

I went to the very last hospital that I'd never been to and they weren't any more help than the one I went ro two days ago.

The doctor insisted that it was anxiety and I told him that if I stopped hyperventilating, it made things worse. He didn't believe me, so I slowed down my breathing. I ended up with full-body tremors and going into a seizure, which he then started pounding HARD on my chest! He said that because I responded to stimuli, that it wasn't a real seizure. Um, no, it would be considered a focal onset impaired awareness seizure. And him pounding on my chest didn't bring me put of it like he claimed, either. It just made me scream and curl up and try to push him away and the seizure went on for about another 15-20 seconds. Also, apparently the spasming and twitching I was doing in the ambulance could possibly have been a focal aware seizure. He claims that since he was able to influence my behavior, that they weren't real seizures and instead were pseudo-seizures triggered by emotional disastress. I've had those before. They're not fun, but they were nothing like what I experienced today and two days ago.

I also had severe chest tightness. But according to him, there's no reason to think it could be brain related, despite me meeting the Cushing's Triad criteria. The doctor claimed that I didn't because my blood pressure was 157/76. Yeah, my normal resting is 90s/50-60s Even mid panic attack, my blood pressure doesn't go over 120.

He gave me ativan and sent me home, however he absolutely shouldn't have. I was visibly mentally impaired. I wasn't really aware of what was going on, had EXTREMELY shallow breathing, and couldn't stay conscious.

I had to take 3 of my Adderall to boost my heartrate and respiratory rate up enough to be safe for me to be sleeping.

Though I still might end up dying soon. Not positive, since the doctors are refusing to run the needed tests, but I'm pretty sure that I have kidney and liver failure, or at least something severely wrong with them. Same with my heart. I've been having palpations and what feels to me like arrhythmia for about 2 months now and have gone in to no avail. Then within this past week and a half, my urine has been amber and smells sickly sweet. Then the past 5 days I have had NO interest in food. And the past 3 days I have had a slight yellow tint to my skin.

Yo wait. My older brother has epilepsy and I had assumed his major episodes came from his father.

I get little shiver twitches that last a second. I had no fucking idea that counted. Genuinely thought it was an anxiety thing to feel head-tilt-twitches for a shiver.

Just in case

PSA

If you happen to stumble upon an ad that looks like this, DO NOT SCROLL DOWN.

The rest of the ad is a very tall GIF of strobing red light that can potentially cause seizures. You cannot scroll past this ad quickly enough to avoid seeing it.

There seems to be no way to report the ad, so the next best thing is to use an adblocker (if you haven’t already) or even stay off the mobile app.

Please reblog to help spread awareness.

Can remembering a super traumatic event that you cannot mentally handle cause seizures?

Uhhh asking bc hmmm uh h,,m,mm

Seizure warning ⚠️

based on true events because i've been thinking about ford having a seizure disorder since 2016 and still yearn for fanwork where his relationship to said seizure disorder is as stupid and slapstick as my own. Hugs and kisses to all my friends who have hurled me into bed like a javelin over the years

Something that’s always bothered me about being chronically ill is how my parents don’t try to listen

they pat my legs and ask me when I’m getting rid of my wheelchair, like never Zoe I can physically only cope for 15 minutes a day without pain walking

The researched my condition and told me I don’t have it really, that I don’t look the part, my body is falling apart and my family are waiting for me to get better

I’ll never get better that’s the thing that they don’t understand

[check out the gofundme in my pinned post to help me get a new wheelchair!]