I was thinking earlier that not a lot has happened today and I didn't know what I was going to put on my blog, even though I posted earlier today with what happened yesterday. But then my body decided to go and have a seizure. It had been three months since my last tonic-clonic seizure - I was doing really well.
I don't know whether all reactions to seizures are the same - mine are that I start to get headaches, I begin to feel sick, I start to cry and I feel tired. So my body has experienced all four of those tonight. Ah well, I'm dosed up on painkillers and the headache and feeling sick has gone away.
I don't know whether anyone else has those side-effects but sometimes I feel like my skull has been rattled about in my head. I read in a book that I had been given by my previous epilepsy nurse once that having a book is just like your brain coughing, and to be honest, I've never experienced my brain coughing before. But it sounds painful.
Apparently, having a seizure uses the same amount of energy as running a marathon. I never thought of it in that way before. I have watched marathons on television before and to think that seizures would use the same amount of energy is pretty surprising.
Anyway, I feel like my limbs are aching and I am a bit tired so I think I am going to go to sleep now. As usual, I will attach my sister's photo underneath!
This shows some of the many types of seizures when it comes to epilepsy!
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