#focal seizure

[ribbitflings]

this is going to be the most specific thing, but anyone with migraines or epilepsy experience achromatopsia or monochromacy at any point during the events?

achromatopsia is a documented phenomenon with migraines, but i believe that only pertains to grey monochrome vision and not other monochrome colors

[meepsterhotline]

god i wish i could communicate how fucking weird focal seizures are... the full self dissociation AND like deep memory recognition... of like 10 completely unrelated things, moments, images, phrases, sounds... happening all at once... it is so bizarre and just sucks so much ass ;u; *brain sizzling noises

[yourmomwhitediamond]

This is the anon with the seizure request. Thank you for writing that. I'm not even sure sinners would be able to have seizures. But, Rosie is my main comfort character. Do you know people with epilepsy in real life? You described things incredibly well.

I added epilepsy in my will-write section because I have it (: The ones I included were a focal seizure (that's what my nurse said I have. I'm partially present during these and it's a sign that my medication is working as well as the build-up to a larger seizure) and there's tonic-clonic/grand mal (I also have these. This is what people will be most familiar with, the body jerking ones). I don't fully know what I look like during them because I don't watch the recordings, so there may have been a few grey areas.

Thank you for asking x

[sunshinesystem20]

I'm extremely scared of having a seizure again, it's making me anxious

-Matthew

[cpunkwitch]

so theres a thing my body does thats been happening more and more frequently

and i started debating with myself if it could be some kind of seizure, but since im awake and aware while it happens that didnt seem right and i usually passed it off as just uncontrolable stimming however because its been more frequent and getting worse i looked into it more

i found focal aware seizures are a thing

but ive never been diagnosed with epilepsy nor has anyone in my family that i know of

so im scared and not sure what else it could be nor how else to lookfurther into this

i feel sick again, my nerves are still a wreck lke the other day when i talked about feeling horrile and had issues with my legs, im still shaking and yeah it happened again between 3:30am and 4am-ish

i was laying on my back in bed while it happened, my body jerked forward and my head went back and it happened so suddenly i cut off my own air supply and choked for a second.

very likely this is being brought on my all the stress im under but it still terifies me, i cant sleep, and i have no clue what to do

[salsa-ishida]

You know how when you tell people about some kind of weird dream you had they'll often be like, “haha what were you smoking??”

No. Fuck that. I haven't smoked or drank since The Seizure and my dreams have been at their most vivid and bizarre bro.

The setting: I have convinced my sister to play some sort of video game with me. We are all snuggled up in my bed with our controllers, solving various puzzles (one of which drains the entire IRL Atlantic Ocean. Don't worry about it that never comes up again). She dozes off mid-game because of course she does.

Beneath the bed, there is a Thump.

I try to shine my phone flashlight down into what I have for years now dubbed The Abyss, but instead of being able to see the general mess that typically resides down there, it is only blackness. A shadow lurches forward at almost impossible speed.

I jerk back and turn to attempt to wake my sister; she is gone.

On pure instinct I scramble after the shadow, which I am now pretty sure has abducted her. I manage to trip said shadow and my sister drops out of it, like video game loot. She is, miraculously, awake (this might be the most unrealistic part of this whole dream, trying to wake that bitch up takes way more than this). The shadow is on the move again, slower, clearly injured, and we pursue.

As we step into what should have been my kitchen, we see the shadow limp into the center of a nearly empty room, grabbing onto a large wooden podium for support.

The light streaming in from the window reveals him to be none other than Mitch McConnell.

My shock and alarm somehow summons Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with whom I share a look that apparently telepathically communicates what has just gone down. She freezes him in place with naught but her gaze, and, for reasons that seemed very important, dusts the podium for his fingerprints…. with a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. He gazes upon us, frozen still, with his sunken, forlorn eyes. He knows the jig is up. My partner appears to help, and he and AOC begin to drag the haggard wretch off to his fate.

He falls again.

And then I woke up and stared at the ceiling for a while. What the fuck.

Bonus:

[nightmaretour]

Out of lamotrigine but the pharmacy seem to be taking their sweet as fuck time getting it to me. Like you do know that you're actively putting my health and my life in danger right

[ribbitflings]

"localized to left parieto occipital cortex" "findings consistent with mesial temporal sclerosis" "spikes found in frontal Fz region"

my brother in christ, where tf is it 😭

[aemiron-main]

trying to draw vs the left eye twitch that keeps plaguing me lately

[1stdonuts]

"you have to stop running from your feelings" is super easy to say but when emotional arousal triggers seizures it makes sense why im very into holding that shit in

[flebus]

my gluten free ass requires papadum stat

[sunshinesystem20]

Seizure

Well apparently I had my first seizure, it was a simple focal seizure but still scary when it's the first time it happens to you

My mom has non epileptic seizures because of an unknown (yet) autoimmune condition but I thought I didn't inherit that... apparently I did inherit that and not only the autoimmune part, just not as bad as her's

I'll have to talk to my neurologist about it since it's a new symptom

-Matthew and Vamp

[melon-fodder]

I really don’t talk about my hx of epilepsy often and when I do I kinda joke about it cause compared to the stuff I’ve seen I feel like I was dealt a good hand considering the syndromes I could have developed

But then there are days like today where I’ve been shitty with my medicine, forgotten to take it for like a handful of days in a row, and I just get fucked with my focal seizures over and over and I am reminded that I do in fact have a disorder and if I keep forgetting, I will sooner rather than later have a big ass tonic-clonic and have to suffer the consequences

[calicoarthropodcrafts]

A little wall art I made this morning. My gold embroidery is regretted but I think it's too late to undo.

I like basing my aesthetic off of my visual focal seizures.

[thecocacolacorporation]

I'm having seizures again so all I feel like I can do is roll on the couch, watch Fantasy High, eat hot chip and lie.

[ribbitflings]

does anyone notice they're more prone to seizures when there's storms around