And i’ve been saying that about hyperbarics for ages. But they don’t listen to ME….I’ve got my EEG reports memorized as well as the mechanisms of action for every damn drug Ive failed (all but the ones I’m on and the ones they can’t put me on, and I know the MOAs for most of those too)...but I cant know ANYTHING because of the young female autistic thing. Blegh.

Seizures can reliably be induced by hyperbaric O2. That is enough O2 for long enough will always induce a seizure.

My biggest experience with seizures is with my dog, who has pretty serious seizures about once a month. She doesn’t defecate or urinate during them, which I understand means and even worse seizure (for a dog)...

the dog isn’t on meds for them, because I don’t want to go down that road. She seems ok in between seizures.

One of the things that happens following strokes sometimes is that sometimes inhibitory neurons are damaged, then without the inhibition that they provide, down stream neurons become over activated and die too, and that can propagate for weeks after a stroke. That is one of the reasons they don’t know how bad a stroke is going to be for quite some time.

Seizures are really not something that has an upside.

Ms Clark, what does a meltdown look like on an EEG? does it look like a seizure?

I don’t remember much of mine except the waking up on the floor with a huge headache part, or wondering how I GOT on the floor. My frontal lobe seizures are nocturnal only and look like parasomnias (Tito, you seem very smart so I’m going to talk as though you have my vocabulary. If I go ‘over your head’ I don’t mind explaining). If it weren’t for the morning headaches the frontal lobe ones would be mostly funny because I say really strange stuff-like once I said I was off on an expedition to the center of the earth to kill the ice demon or something like that. I also tried to drive off, which is bad.

I’ve never had the religious thing, but I have made incredibly stupid decisions in the period of time pre seizure, and so has my dad. But I hit the ground and start twitching a lot faster than he does, he walks around and says the same word over and over, I flop and wake up with a headache and cough and sometimes throw up. The time during and immediately before is gone, as is immediately after. Immediately after I cannot communicate very well either, I use a little sign language after a seizure and do so very BADLY.

I know of others who enjoy their seizures. I’d much rather do without them. But mine are quite severe and I am educated on the damage repeated seizures do to a brain. When they happen as often as mine did untreated it is life threatening.

Even some people with delusions, in schizophrenia, have nice, happy delusions. Sometimes doctors will work with those patients to not drug the happy delusions out of existence. There was a situation like that my friend told me about, she is a social worker.

It’s unfortunate that many delusions make people feel very frightened, and that, it seems to me would be suffering… on the other hand some of the treatments that these people get are just as bad as the original pain of delusions, so treatments need to be measured out carefully for the benefit of the patient, not to the harm of the patient.

There’s another feature of seizures that is kind of scary, that is in the period following the seizure, the person may act normally. From their point of view they are normal, they are normal… except whatever they do for that time following the seizure they are not able to recall. So they may drive their car to work (perfectly safe) but not recall ever having driven the car to work.

It’s just scary because, say the husband can tell his wife something about what happened at work. If she is in the post-ictal phase, she can engage in the conversation, but later remember none of the details of the conversation. But the husband wouldn’t necessarliy know that, and he might get very frustrated because his wife has no memory of the conversation. She might say, “you didn’t tell me that…”