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My 1st ever seizure last month, in airport waiting area
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@musicbart
First, I'd like to correct something I mentioned in my first post.
I suggested your seizure was provoked. But sleeping issue seizures are considered to be unprovoked and unprovoked seizures have a higher rate of reoccurrence. I would suggest you stop driving. Like me, my brother also has epilepsy. His first seizure happened while he was driving. He was in a severe car accident, and both his femoral arteries were severed, and his legs were crushed. He's basically metal from the waist to his feet and required braces and crutches to walk. Currently he's in a wheelchair. Just an example of what can happen if a seizure strikes.
Don't be surprised if your drivers license will be suspended. If you were visiting California which is where I live, maybe the doctor didn't report it if he wasn't sure what happened for sure. I believe we are required to contact the driving authority in the state they are from even if the doctors are not required to report it to the state like California is. States require 3-12 months restrictions for seizures.
All but twice my suspensions were for 1 year.
Take care,
Jake
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@jakedduck1
Thank you Jake for your latest comments and remarks. I'm sorry to hear about the ghastly thing that happened to your brother. Yes, even though I wondered if I'd have another seizure, I did also realize that a seizure can certainly strike anytime, even when driving. I only use the VA for medical care-- I don't know what the VA would report to the state (which isn't California) if the VA's sure that I'll have future seizures.
Since I don't know various things about epilepsy, do you know if epilepsy can begin at any point in life or does it usually begin when a person's young or very young?
Maybe you read here what methel wrote. Methel told me and others here that I've got to be aggressive in trying to figure out what changed in me to cause big-time sleep troubles. I certainly know that there's indifference, neglect, dealings with incompetent and non-sharp people in US medicine and that all of that leads to prolonged physical and mental suffering, to worsened medical conditions, and to the worst of all as a final outcome. I tell people I *LOVE* medical mysteries but I always hate my own.