Epileptic seizures
Epileptic seizures are a clinical finding in which a person with a known seizure disorder (epilepsy) has a seizure (repeated, uncontrolled movement all of a sudden).
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A 46-year old asked:
Can an epidural trigger an epileptic seizure in a person who has epilepsy?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Can an epileptic seizure be delayed? For example, if I have photosensitive epilepsy and Im in a room where there are flashing lights, but I leave the room. Can the brain remember the flashing lights and have a seizure after some minutes?
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A 31-year old asked:
Does alcohol make epileptics more likely to have seizures?
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A 47-year old asked:
What are the sypmtoms of a kind of epilepsy called jacksonian seizures?
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A 43-year old female asked:
Can pain cause my epilepsy seizures worse?
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A 39-year old asked:
Do the types of seizures an epilepsy sufferer commonly change?
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A 40-year old asked:
How can fast changing colors cause seizures for people with epilepsy?
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A 44-year old asked:
Why out of my whole entire family I'm the one who has epilepsy/seizures?
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A 36-year old asked:
Could a person with epilepsy experience both absence and convulsive seizures?
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A 31-year old asked:
How fast does a strobe have to flash to cause seizures for people with epilepsy?
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A 30-year old asked:
Can following a bike's flashing led trigger seizures in strobe-sensitive epilepsy?
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A 32-year old asked:
Does it happen that people get seizures again if you have a history of epilepsy seizures?
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A 44-year old asked:
It necessary to take medicine for mini seizures and are mini seizures considered epilepsy?
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A 46-year old asked:
Please tell me, could a person with epilepsy experience both absence and convulsive seizures?
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A 23-year old male asked:
I was diagnosed with epilepsy i used medication, now seizures has stoped is it possible that it'l return? And why?
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A 39-year old male asked:
I have been having seizures for over a year and have finally been diagnosed w epilepsy. I am 39. How common is this?
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A female asked:
Can epilepsy develop at a certain age? Can a person go their whole life without any seizures then all of a sudden start having them?
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A 22-year old female asked about a 20-year old female:
Is it possible for someone with epilepsy to have seizures even with medication an occasional one is it cureable or a lifetime condition?
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A 35-year old female asked about a female:
We have discontinued meds for seizures which were termed to be absent epilepsy. it has been more than 2 years now, but nothing happened so far. ?
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A 22-year old female asked:
I have epilepsy from the past three years. And my symptoms shows its tonicclonic seizures. Its not continuous and recently after 2years i got it again?
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A 23-year old male asked:
I have epilepsy since last 3 years. I had 3 seizures by now. I take levetiracetam750mg once in a day. Do I have a better cure. And get relief from med?
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A 19-year old female asked:
When there is no apparent cause for a person's epilepsy, have the person in fact had epilepsy (without seizures..) their whole life but the seizures just chose to show up later? And why do they appear out of nowhere?
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A female asked:
Can a person die of a seizure?Or of epilepsy
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A 34-year old male asked:
What is the diferenet between seizure and epilepsy?
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A 35-year old asked:
What could have caused my seizure if I don't have epilepsy?
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A 41-year old asked:
How do epileptics make it through labor and childbirth without having a seizure?
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A 40-year old asked:
Can chiropractic manipulation help with reducing seizure frequency in epileptics?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Do seizures cause memory loss in epileptics? I find after each seizure my memory and attention span are getting worse. I'm only 24!
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A 22-year old female asked:
My aunt(from dad side)'s daughter&my little brother both have had history with seizures.Is it hereditary? Are my future children at risk for epilepsy?
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A 28-year old male asked:
Hi Dr, My fiance has epilepsy, but he doesnt get the seizure very bad.. its only like a shake and then its over. Hes currently on Navalpro. Is there any other medication he can take to stop the shake? Thank you
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