#Absence seizures

[imagine-creative]

absence seizures come on fast and unexpectedly and cause a lasp of attention. Of few moments of time are lost. They are short, lasting only a few seconds, but in only a few seconds so many things can happen.

I myself do have absence seizures. It can be scary. If you have any questions I’ll be happy to answers :) just a little nugget of myself I gave to Lottie for some character and help me process my on going my health journey a little bit

#dca #fnaf security breach #sundrop and moondrop #fnaf daycare attendant #sundrop #sundrop security breach #daycare attendent #moondrop #moondrop security breach #fnaf moon #moondrop fnaf #dca moon #moondropdca #fnaf moondrop #fnaf original character #fnaf oc #actually epileptic #epilepsy #absence seizures

[discord-emote-customs]

A identity soup emote (I'm mostly curious how you'd interpret that) or a seizure emote :0 (your stuff is so so cool congrats on 400 followers!!)

dont trust myself to draw a tonic seizure well so i drew an absence seizure , hope thats alright ^^" also made the identity soup just the colors i use for the emojis

#custom emoji #custom emojis #discord emoji #discord emojis #custom emote #custom emotes #discord emote #discord emotes #free to use #seizures #tw seizure #cw seizure #absence seizures #identity soup

[ashtonisrottting]

to be an overworked student that works in a research lab and has epilepsy, so when the stress catches up on you absence seizures do too, and damn. my whole day feels like a patchwork

#vent #actually epileptic #epilepsy #epilepsy problems #absence seizures

[ribbitflings]

Hey, I know we don't know each other, but you seem to know a lot about the topic of seizures.

If it's not a bother, could I ask you a few questions about them?

Specifically about focal seizures/partial seizures.

What is a focal seizure like for you?

I've been having these episodes for as long as I can remember that I labeled dissociation for a long time, but recently have come to find out resemble focal seizures. A few triggers are bright flashing light, and being stressed out and tired at the same time. My vision gets blurry, a wave washes over my brain (dunno how else to describe it), I feel either so spaced out I don't have feelings, or I feel extremely fearful with a feeling a deja vu, I blink a lot and lick my lips, and sometimes my hand moves on its own in repeated motions. Usually lasts about two minutes, and leaves me feeling quite haggard for hours afterwards, I usually sleep after them if possible.

I'm going to try and get into a neuro soon but it's been driving me NUTS thinking about it. Does this sound like it could be a focal seizure to you? I haven't been able to talk to anyone with epilepsy about it, and I think doing so could be enlightening, like they'd know what questions to ask to tell the difference having been through a seizure themselves.

Thank you for your time, even if you don't reply. Have a nice day.

this sounds a lot like textbook TLE focals or a generalized absence, yes. depending on your doctor, you might be labelled as "easy" or it might seem suspicious because it's "too textbook."

i just came back from a follow up that went downhill because i happen to have mood changes associated with my biggest seizures, that also clear up after the events, so i turned down antidepressants since im not currently depressed and its a self solving issue, and i have an aura, postictal state, seizures during sleep, stereotypical posturing, bro has seen literal videos of the typical events, and the moment i mentioned any kind of mood change with bigger events, he immediately slapped the mental health label on it, is ready to stop my meds, and did not set up a follow up. he was positive the appointment before that i have TLE and where it was probably coming from and now he wants to slap the mental health label and not bother. i also happen to have life stressors, as does everyone else, mine may be more so since i have insane parents and in-laws, but yeah just be really careful of that. epilepsy is a very common neurological disorder, second to headaches, but when someone isnt willing to put in the work (this guy barely asks questions and did not know that one of my recent seizures was my fault for taking meds too late and happened during my sleep), they jump to statistically unlikely conclusions that are overtly sexist and can become extremely dangerous for the patient (such as pulling a patient off of necessary meds)

#seizures #actually epileptic #anti epileptic drugs #epileptic problems #seizure #partial seizure #seizure disorder #grand mal seizures #absence seizures

[arc-angel-o]

I used to have absence epilepsy, like my whole life, until a few years ago when I was around 17 (I'm 19 now). Can I use the actually epileptic tag when posting about it?

When I was younger, I hated talking or even thinking about my epilepsy, but now I find myself wanted to finally incorporate it into my art that my younger self, and hopefully others who are in that boat now, can find cathartic.

#epilepsy #actually epileptic #absence epilepsy #absence seizures

[thefluoritefnd]

Feel like I'm gonna faint, but I don't feel safe doing so, so prolonging the inevitable. Is that even possible? I know the trigger was sudden and not as strong as usual.

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#dissociative seizures #pnes #seizure #non epileptic seizures #psychogenic non epileptic seizures #cdid #cdid system #did #did osdd #did system #absence seizures #seizures #potential dissociative seizures #dissociative identity disorder #complex dissociative identity disorder

[neurodivergentbraingoblins]

Currently getting a 24hr EEG done to look for signs of epilepsy. Cool things that have happened so far that I have no idea what they mean:

I have moments like look like absence seizures. Basically I go kinda limp and just stare off into the distance. Apparently when this happens, my friend said all the brain waves on the screen flat line. It really freaked him out the first time he saw it on the screen 😅 which honestly explains so much because when it happens it feels like all the brain goblins just decided to go on a break all at the same time so no one is running the factory.

The other thing that happens is when my brain gets really loud and chaotic. Like all the brain goblins decided to start screaming and fighting all at the same time. My head feels so full and loud in those moments. When it happened the brain waves on the screen started going absolutely wild. The screen was pure chaos and it felt like it really captured the spirit of the chaos in my head 🤣

I have no clue if either of these things indicate a larger issue or not. I just know it was really interesting to finally see a visual representation of my brain in those moments

#non epileptic seizures #absence seizures #seizures #epilepsy #EEG testing #what is going on with my brain? #my brain go brrtt and screen go brrtt #my brain go dead and screen go dead

[runawaycarouselhorse]

My mind thinking of myself as an adult by age 12 still has me recall some things incorrectly. I thought I somehow had an absence seizure (a condition of childhood) once as an adult and I was actually just 14, huh… just because I had already gone through puberty.

#all the flashing effects in PPG never triggered any for me growing up alhamdulilLah *except* the banned Gnomey episode ffff #and it fortunately didn’t last that long and I remember the later sequences and such #personal #The Powerpuff Girls #absence seizures #I was on a PPG forum and had subbed Lucario movie quotes in my signature so it was around 2006

[jinxedshapeshifter]

Honestly I’m quite happy TikTok exists.

I have epilepsy and a video of a girl experiencing absence seizures came across my for you page which then prompted me to look into absence seizures. I experience dissociative trances and it can be incredibly hard to tell the difference between absence seizures and dissociative trances, which prompted my neurologist to want to do further EEG testing. I’m now realizing that further EEG testing to identify if I’m experiencing dissociative trances or seizures is completely fucking unnecessary.

As I was looking through TikToks of absence seizures, I noticed one significant difference between my trances and absence seizures: absence seizures seem to cause a complete breakdown in controlling your body, whereas when I go into a trance, I’m pretty much just staring into the middle distance. I’m still aware of what’s going on; I could probably still be fine to drive when I’m in a trance state as long as I have someone with me, but the thing that defines trances for me is a fundamental disconnect between my mind and body. Generally this leads to the following:

While I am aware of what’s going on around me, I don’t remember well what happens during my dissociative trances.

I don’t necessarily struggle to communicate (at least, no more than I normally do), but I might come off as distant because mentally, I am distant because of the dissociation.

If I was having seizures, I wouldn’t be able to communicate. In fact, I had neurological testing done to make sure me shutting down wasn’t absence seizures. When I go into a dissociative trance, I can continue a conversation. I might come off as a little out of it and whoever I’m chatting with might have to repeat themself because of that disconnect between my mind and body, but I’m still able to communicate and have a conversation (at least, have a conversation just as well as when I’m not experiencing a dissociative trance).

There are certain things that are sort of weird and would indicate that I’m experiencing seizures, like what triggers my dissociative trances for example:

Exhaustion makes me more likely to go into frequent dissociative trances throughout the day

Flashing lights cause me to enter a dissociative state; for example, if I play Sonic CD for long enough, I start to dissociate.

I do think I know the reason for this though. I have trauma associated with flashing lights as well as my seizures in general, and my dissociative trances are, fundamentally and by their psychological definition, a trauma response. I wouldn’t be surprised if me entering a dissociative trance upon exposure to flashing lights is a trauma response, because I can very much communicate when I’m in a dissociative trance after exposure to flashing lights.

All of this is without mentioning that I had a 3 day inpatient EEG done when I was 13 (which is what I was referring to when I said I had neurological testing done to make sure me shutting down wasn’t absence seizures) which would’ve detected any absence seizures I would’ve had because I was also experiencing dissociative trances at that point in time (I don’t remember exactly how often, I think at least once a day?).

What I’m experiencing isn’t absence seizures and I feel like I wouldn’t have been able to actually realize that without TikTok’s help honestly. I am very much experiencing dissociative trances because while yes, outwardly it looks similar to absence seizures, I don’t go unresponsive. I can still hold a conversation while I’m in a dissociative trance. I can remember being in dissociative trances, just not what was going on (at least not very well). The DSM-5 specifies that dissociative trances are characterized by “an acute narrowing or complete loss of awareness of immediate surroundings that manifests as profound unresponsiveness or insensitivity to environmental stimuli” which is EXACTLY what I experience. I have an OSDD diagnosis and I’ve experienced dissociation on some level for as long as I can remember. Outside of trances, I’m also in a near constant state of feeling like I’m not in my own body (basically similar experience to depersonalization-derealization disorder, the symptoms for which are likely covered by my OSDD diagnosis since I also experience dissociative trances. Not sure exactly how that works though, I just know you can’t generally have an OSDD diagnosis at the same time as another dissociative disorder because that’s the point of the OSDD diagnosis lol).

The fact that a neurologist is trying to override what I know to be my psychological experiences caused by trauma is not great honestly. Having epilepsy and experiencing dissociative symptoms is not a fun experience when it comes to communicating those dissociative symptoms with a neurologist 🫠

#jinxed chatter #osdd #osdd 4 #other specified dissociative disorder #dissociative trances #epilepsy #absence seizures #feel free to correct me on this btw. im not completely versed on absence seizures #i am pretty sure being aware during my dissociative trances rules out them being seizures though #i will be bringing all this up with my neurologist. im sick of questioning my mental health conditions because a neurologist said so lol

[shinyopal]

I’m epileptic and have absence seizures, and it can be really scary going out alone because sometimes when i wake up from one i’m really disoriented and regularly almost walk into traffic lol.

that hasn’t happened in a while because meds but yk, it’s still scary because i still have very frequent seizures

another thing i do in my seizures is i just walk places sometimes. it happened a lot in grade three when i was originally diagnosed (i’m first year college) and sometimes i wake up and i’m somewhere different.

epilepsy is whack

#epilepsy #absence seizures #epileptic problems #disabled #it’s scary as fuck sometimes but we power through

[littlewalken]

A description of severe temporal lobe epilepsy along with possible Mesial Temporal Sclerosis.

Some people with temporal lobe seizures will have more mild symptoms, some people with temporal lobe seizures have a more spiritual experience.

#temporal lobe epilepsy #absent seizure #absence seizures #Youtube

[mad-angel-menhera]

Anyone have any ideas on how I fairy tale/fantasyify a (portable/)EEG machine? Or know anything that already has?

Specifically working in the world of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. I might do this for my own characters in their own worlds, but i was thinking of giving Cimorene absence seizures.

I was thinking maybe the wires could be Mendanbar's magic, y'know with those invisible strings? I'm sure Telemain and Morwen could come up with something, but I'm kinda stumped.

#actually epileptic #absence seizures #petit mal seizures #writing fantasy #enchanted forest chronicles #cimorene #fantasy worldbuilding

[miahasahardname]

finds character i relate to immensely, immediately starts projecting

#discovered some mikey epilepsy headcanons one time. can’t find ‘em but they made me really happy so i’m throwing some in #2012 mikey centered because… well…. i’m me #but i have rise mikey ones too #2012 mikey mostly has absences and auras and other less serious kinds of seizures #though he will occasionally have tonic-clonics and other such seizures #he tics regularly because i do and i want a character that does too #(my tic is basically just i crack my neck and sometimes it goes too hard and it really hurts) #i could go on but i don’t have time for that rn lol #tmnt mikey #tmnt leo #tmnt donnie #2012 mikey #2012 leo #2012 donnie #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #feel free to ignore (not 100% proud of the second drawing)

[ashtonisrottting]

if your seizures are driving you crazy clap your hands 👏👏 if your seizures are really inconvenient clap your hands 👏👏 if they happen all the time and every task feels like end of the world, if you've been having frequent seizures clap your hands 👏👏

#absence seizures #vent #istg everyone says it goes away at puberty but thst is not true 🥸 #even my last neurologist said it would go awya with time and its been almost 9y

[ribbitflings]

guys i finally got an abnormal EEG resukt in february, which led to a 3T MRI, which also led to an abnormal result there, so someone finally believed me and i have the proof that i do have epilepsy, in spite of all the people that refused to believe me or put in the effort to try to find the problem

#chronic illness #seizures #epilepsy #seizure disorder #absence seizures #grand mal seizures #actually epileptic #epileptic problems #partial seizure #tonic clonic seizure #focal seizure #tonic seizures #clonic seizures

[bonefall]

As a big sibling with a lil sib with epilepsy, when they read TBC they Honestly thought if they got struck with lightning reciting the lord's prayer they'd be cured like Shadowsight is from their epilepsy. I had a discussion with them on how that's not how it works, but ge was so upset they took it away from Shadowsight that he hasn't picked the books back up and has stated that 'he hopes Ashfur wins and starts a new religion.,'

I do not even know how to respond to this besides saying that your little sibling is 100% right to be pissed and I now also hope Ashfur wins and starts a new religion.

#Legit I did not know that Shadow's epilepsy being taken away was so deeply upsetting to SO MANY people #I put it back because putting it back was just the right thing to do (even asked the small following I had at the time what type to portray #(they picked the full tonic-clonics. I would have just done localized or absence if they'd asked me to) #And I did all that research for one single anon who asked for an epilepsy herb guide #So holy cow I didn't know that SO MANY people were snubbed and upset by canon's choice to do that. I'm so sorry #Your little sib isn't missing anything btw they do just go on to confirm that Shadow no longer has seizures. #In book 4 of TBC they say that it was all Ash all along and that's what they've stuck with into ASC #I'm sitting on an essay about... That plot thread. The Ashfur Grooming one #But it's in my drafts because I was a bit afraid of controversy #because i think it was written poorly. Even on top of Book 4's pivot to retcon away Shadow's seizures #I know a lot of people like and are invested in the grooming subplot of TBC. But. I think it was executed AWFULLY #and its really telling that THIS is the plot they tout as grooming *by name* in-canon.-- #--and that Shadow has to 'pay' for what he 'did' in some way as if there was ever a choice in the books they wrote-- #--But seemingly didn't even seem to clock that what was happening in Spotted's H was grooming until there was intense backlash #and a big part of my contention is the way that Book 4 suddenly tries to retcon that Shadow was groomed from the time he was a child #when it was actually part of book 1 that Shadow was able to personally tell the difference between a real vision and Ash's suggestions-- #--BECAUSE he didn't have an accompanying seizure #So like... just know it's also NOT just 'you' if you connected to the character that was epileptic. It WAS there. It was a BIG part of him #Book 4 retconned it so that his epilepsy was part of a long scheme when before that point it was part of him #''ohh ur destiny is to see into the shadows'' BULL SHIT!! #bone babble