Unlikely: Episodes of altered consciousness could be due to seizure activity, but your history perhaps is more consistent with faintness, or even low blood pressure or hypoglycemia. Best to approach this with a complete evaluation at your doctor's office soon.
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Seizures: Possibly, but more likely you might have some blockage in the carotid arteries, or possibly blood clots going to the brain. Get your doctor to get a carotid and vertebral doppler as a first diagnostic step, and then if symptoms continue, mri, mra and mrv of the brain
Answered 12/16/2012
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