Posted by Estella on August 8, 2006, at 9:29:09
In reply to Re: anti seizure medication » Estella, posted by Phillipa on August 6, 2006, at 19:59:34
> I saw one once. The medical doc was there. The patient didn't do the things a real seizure pt does. No loss of urine. No twitching and no after sleeping.
There are many different kinds of seizures...
Some seizures don't involve those.
I think that with grand mal the body is meant to go rigid though, maybe he guessed 'cause she wasn't rigid? I don't know very much about seizures.> I have no idea how the doc knew but he did he pulled on her arm and knew.
Did he say it was a pseudo-seizure? I'm wondering because benzo's are meant to help seizures...
Maybe he guessed? Or maybe she was anger, sometimes we say that people are in a 'fit' of rage...
> In a way it was done for attention.
Is that what she said? Maybe it was a panic response. They aren't typically volountary.
> Very complicated to tell the difference.
An EEG usually helps. There are complications there too though...
I'd imagine that Pseudo-seizures are probably just as scarey and disorienting to experience as epileptic seizures... But then I've never experienced either...
I mean anxiety isn't like a seizure, it would be more like a pseudo-seizure. That doesn't mean that the person has any more control over it. Though... Both pseudo-seizures and epileptic seizures can be learned to be controlled to some extent...
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