Hi @bunnyboy
Sharing my experience with you. My first 2 shots of Covid vaccine were from AstraZeneca and I was fine after it. The third Covid vaccine was from J&J, increasing my seizures a lot for a period of 10 days. I have normally 2 to 3 partial complex seizures a month and after this J&J vaccine, I experienced 12 to 13 focal complex seizures a day for about 10 days. I am convinced that Covid vaccine can affect those with epilepsy.
I understand your seizures are generalized ones (convulsions), right? Have you tried to visit an epileptologist? Being treated by an epileptologist has made a great difference in my treatment and explained my epilepsy and its source.
If I understood you correctly, all was well with your health and after Covid vaccine you started to have seizures, right? Perhaps you had lighter seizures that did not alarm you before? I said that because I have been more than 30 years with undiagnosed epilepsy, though many EEG exams have been performed. The seizures I had when younger were rare, about 3 times a year and also much lighter (many were just auras). They lasted for very few seconds and did not interfere with my life at that time. But after burnout in 2017, my seizures did not just increase but also became stronger. My epilepsy started to show its face, being diagnosed with it 2 years later. Nowadays, after studying my epilepsy (The Epilepsy Foundation has been a great source to me) and visiting doctors who are specialized in epilepsy, I understand well my epilepsy. The source was an accident when I was 5 years old, though the seizures just started when I was a teenager (there is a latent period in epilepsy). Did you have any accident that may perhaps justify your epilepsy?
Hope you have helped you a bit with my experience. Feel free to contact me!
Santosha
Not being able to speak after a seizure is something quite common to me (I have temporal lobe epilepsy)