Yesterday i was standing in the bathroom and i looked up at the ceiling. Suddenly i felt really warm and foggy headed. I started to fall back but i put my hands on the wall and caught myself. My legs felt week and suddenly i couldn’t control them. They kept extending and bending. After about 30 seconds it stopped and i could stand up. At first walking was hard but i was back to normal after a few seconds.
It reminds me of the sleep paralysis i’ve been having lately, the feeling is really similar. Anyway my question is what do you all think this is and should i be worried?
Since this is real-life medical question, I’ve moved it to IMHO from General Questions. There you can get opinions, some of which may be well informed, some of which may be off the wall. Wishing you good luck with your problem, I am
I had a seizure. At least in my case I passed out and didnt wake up until the ambulance arrived.
So if you didnt pass out I dont think it was a seizure, but I could be wrong.
It sounds like perhaps you had abnormally low blood pressure. This can sometimes cause people to faint or come close to fainting.
I can’t go to the doctor, i don’t have insurance or money to pay for a trip to the doctor. So instead im tying to research it. Unfortunately i didn’t get anywhere googling it so i though i would ask other people.
The answer is, yes it could have been a seizure. It also could have been a dozen other things. It could be nothing or something worrisome. There is just no way to know.
If you’re in the US, have you looked into signing up for insurance through Exchanges, to help out in the future?
Not all seizures involve passing out – look up “focal seizures”, or “petite mals”. I’ve had both types, and the smaller ones happen more frequently than the larger ones.
To the OP – get thee to a doctor. It’s not like any of the seizures I’ve ever experienced, but a.) that doesn’t mean it wasn’t one, or b.) it couldn’t be something else. Definetly something you should have checked out.
Another vote for get yourself the heck to a medical professional. You definitely may have had a seizure. Also, mention the sleep paralysis while you’re at it. I’m not a doctor, but it’s possible they’re related, especially if it started only just recently then you had this experience.
I, too, have had seizures, not like the one the OP has described, but I’ve heard that there are many involuntary motions that can be caused by seizures and you don’t necessarily have to completely lose consciousness (although many people, myself included, do).
And they will set up a payment plan if you do. If you work with them, they will help you as much as possible. It’s when people try to pull funny stuff that they get nasty.
The healthcare coverage starts January 1, 2014, contrary to what one might believe from the average media stories about it. The October 1 date was for when one might start signing up for healthcare coverage.
If I recall correctly, one of the conditions of “get thee to a hospital now” is if you have a seizure and you’ve never had a seizure before (others being if the seizure lasts for more than 5 minutes, the person has diabetes, the seizure happened in water, or the person is having difficulty breathing afterwards - there’s probably a few more I’m not remembering).
People have seizures and don’t go to the hospital all the time, but these are folks who have had seizures before and their medical condition is known. For your first seizure ever, they want to see you. Now. Like really, now. Go.
You are risking things like possible permanent brain damage, paralysis, or death. This is not the time to bitch and moan about money.
Also dont bring your drivers license to the hospital. Bring other forms of ID.
If they ask for your drivers license tell them you dont have one.
The first thing hospitals here in Toronto do is notify Ministry of Transportation aboot your seizure, and MOT will automatically suspend your DL until you seen a neurological specialist who can rule out epilepsy or brain tumors
I just had a seizure on Sunday morning. I was asleep and woke up gasping for air with my husband holding me down and terrified. He said I shook and tensed up for 8 to 10 minutes. I had one once before a few months ago and stupidly (I know) didn’t go to the emergency room. Yesterday’s scared me enough to make me go. I am not an epileptic. They did a CT scan of my brain and some bloodwork. Turns out, I probably had the seizure because I hadn’t slept for 4 days with the exception of the hour of sleep I got before the seizure. My whole family had also had bad stomach virus for 3 days so I was dehydrated. The final, and most important thing to the doctor is that I had run out of the Xanax I have been taking due to some stressful things going on in my life (I didn’t know I had to taper off of that) So after a trip to the emergency room, a CT scan of my brain, and some blood work, they gave me Xanax and told me to follow up with my doctor, that I wasn’t epileptic.
It’s now Tuesday. During the seizure I must have pulled my upper back out, as I need help getting up and down. Every muscle in my body feels like it’s recovering from a bad Charlie horse. I can’t even open my mouth all of the way, my jaw muscles are so tight. Thank God I didn’t bite my tongue. My memory is coming back slowly but surely. When I was answering questions at the hospital, I had a hard time with the date and year, and my address and cell number I had no idea.
