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NEW ONSET SEIZURES
by: Robin on Thu, Dec 06 2007
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I first had a seizure, not knowing at the time it was a seizure in my home. i was taking my kids to school. i get up to go to the truck, there are no kids, the dogs gone, I’m calling school and sound like an idiot because they say i dropped my kids off.

It wasn’t till later having one in front of my kids and other people in a movie theater that we realized what had happened before. They admit me and do every test in the book and everything is normal. Then i am admitted for a colonoscopy to be done and i was getting more dehydrated and then had one in the hospital. So they were thinking it was when i became dehydrated that it happened. I looked up the symptoms of synthroid which is for thyroid disease. It says that when you were on medicine too long it can cause seizures so I stop the medicine on my own.

Several weeks later I feel lethargic so i try the synthroid since they were never positive of the causes.(At that point I had 3) After being on the synthroid 1 week, i have a seizure in the parking lot of walmart. It’s really embarassing, because you come to not knowing you were out and people are asking you stupid questions, and they don’t have any sympathy as to what you might be feeling. I came on here to try to get an idea if people have symptoms before it happens, like you know one is coming. Any help would be great!!!!
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  1. Sun, Jan 13 2008
    Your seizures sound like mine. When I first relized I had them. The confusion state is when they are really bad. I dont know if you have done resear...Read

December 2007

  • What happened? - by John - (Fri, Dec 28 2007)
    Someone said I might have had a seizure. All I know, is last Friday I felt my chest hurting. I have had problems in the past feeling my heart or chest hurting, abnormal ekg’s, only to return to normal and get told there is nothing wrong. For this reason, I didn’t think much about the pain. [more..]
  • Myoclonic after childbirth… - by psw - (Fri, Dec 28 2007)
    I had my first seizure at age 27, 3 days after the birth of my first child. The doctors say genetic but I’m thinking morophin [morphine] epidural. I learned to live with [more..]
  • My story when it all started - by S.K. - (Fri, Dec 28 2007)
    When I was just 26 1/2 months old, my dad wasn’t watching me and so, I fell off my slide and so, I broke my arm, right arm. I started having seizures and they were bad, [more..]
  • Stay On Your Meds - by Adam - (Wed, Dec 26 2007)
    I began having seizures about 6 yrs ago. I am now 36. I’ve always only had seizures in my sleep, until Saturday, when I had my first daytime seizure. [more..]
  • Epilepsy and Pregnancy - by CJ - (Wed, Dec 26 2007)
    I have been having seizures for about 4 years and my husband and I wanted to have kids. I consulted my neurologist and he referred me to a doctor for high risk pregnancies. At 6 weeks I found out [more..]
  • NEW ONSET SEIZURES - by Robin - (Thu, Dec 06 2007)
    I first had a seizure, not knowing at the time it was a seizure in my home. i was taking my kids to school. i get up to go to the truck, there are no kids, the dogs gone, I’m calling school and sound like an idiot because they say i dropped my kids off. [more..]

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