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Epilepsy & Seizures | Last Active: Apr 30 9:48pm | Replies (83)
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@annestudio
Epilepsy is most common in young children with a dramatic increase in people over 60-65. Absence seizures in older people are common but not as easily diagnosed because unlike some children who frequently have 100 or more episodes a day. In older people symptoms are more subtle.
They may look like absences but may be focal impaired seizures.
Does your husband have any memory of the episodes? Has he had an EEG or MRI?
If possible, filming the potential seizure would be very helpful to the neurologist along with a thorough history from a witness.
Take care,
Jake
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@jakedduck1
I have videos each of these “seizure-like” incidents and neither the Neurologist or the PCP were interested in watching! I have stopped taking my husband with me to live theater performances because we are afraid of the disruption it would cause.
Once he had one. In a supermarket while standing on checkout line on his Walker. Since he could not respond to instructions to move forward or anything— the supermarket personnel called police and 911. Big scene; ER. He became conscious again while in ambulance but they had him inside ER by the time I arrived in my car!
They gave him Versed, which made him sensitive and uncooperative. The Hospital he was taken to has no Neurology department! He did not remember any of this!