What is Epilepsy? how do i know if i have it? what happens when u have Epilepsy?

in my physical education lesson few days ago i was exercising a bit harder then usual and my mouth went dry. i dint had any saliva to swallow. after few minutes i fainted. in this time my eye went whole white (my black bit of eye went up) and i was shaking. now the only thing i remember is standing and seeing blury things. but my friend said i aactually went open the door then stupidly i went in to the wall. n fell down. but i dont remember opening a door. i then started shaking. is this Epilepsy???????????????????????

Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures.[1][2] These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.[3] About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy at any one time.[4] Epilepsy is usually controlled, but not cured, with medication, although surgery may be considered in difficult cases. Not all epilepsy syndromes are lifelong 鈥?some forms are confined to particular stages of childhood. Epilepsy should not be understood as a single disorder, but rather as a group of syndromes with vastly divergent symptoms but all involving episodic abnormal electrical activity in the brain.

treatment
Epilepsy is usually treated with medication prescribed by a physician; primary caregivers, neurologists, and neurosurgeons all frequently care for people with epilepsy. In some cases the implantation of a stimulator of the vagus nerve, or a special diet can be helpful. Neurosurgical operations for epilepsy can be palliative, reducing the frequency or severity of seizures; or, in some patients, an operation can be curative.

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epilepsy is a condition where you body goes in to convulsions you dont remeber it but it can be dangerous, you should go to your doctor and tell him/her what happened.

Good luck

Probably not, though don't rule it out.

The classic epilepsy attack most think of is the fit or convulsion, where the patiet is unconscious and all the body's muscles go into violent spasm for a minute or too. This is more common in one's sleep, so often a patient knows nothing about it, unless they wake up to a messy bed and maybe a bite on the cheeks or tongue.

By far the most common epilepsy episode is simply a loss of time, staring into space and being unable to respond to external stimuli during this time, so this kind of attack is clearly not easy to identify the cause.

A neurologist can identify epilepsy from EEG and various scans and tests, and it can be treated with any of various drugs (on a trial and error basis)

People with epilepsy and on medication should refrain from alcohol.

You may just have fainted but you should tell your parents and get them to have you checked out by the doc. While you are waiting for the outcome dont exercise too hard in case it happens again. Get well.

The previous answerer is right go to your G.P, if you have epilepsy there are drugs which can control it, There are two types of Epilepsy,Grand Mal & Petite Mal, my Father had Petite Mal & suffered bad blackouts etc with Grand Mal you have the added fears of Fits etc. Good Luck, hope you get yourself sorted out.

You may have had something that a doc might call an "epileptiform seizure." What you are describing is like what someone might experience during epilepsy, which is a disorder of how electrical discharges in the brain work, to put it in simple terms. Some forms of epilepsy manifest as convulsions (violent shaking) and sometimes vocalizations, sometimes the person appears to stare into space and twitch or make smalll stereotyped movements (called absence seizures), sometimes the person completely loses consciousness and sometimes not. There are a range of other symptoms as well. It depends on where the neuroelectrical defect is occuring in the brain. What you experienced may never happen again -- or it else it might. Especially that you lost consciousness and were shaking, you should've been taken to a hospital and given a brain scan (EEG). You might still want to report this incident to a doctor and be examined or at least monitored.

There are different types of seizures. I've had epilepsy since I was 3 years old. There are partial complex which I have, they cause your eyes to dialate, sometimes vomit, stare and not be able to respond... sort of like a coma state where you can't remember anything that happened. We had bunkbeds as kids and I had the top bunk and I would fall off, have a seziure, and not be able to remember anything when my parents were standing in my roo. They aren't the jerking and shaking kind.

well actually a really good website that helped my mom and stuff deal was www.epilepsy.com

you should really see a doctor. left untreated, epilepsy can be REALLY damaging. i hope someone offers some help.
good luck!

There are different types of epilepsy. I have temple lobe epilepsy. You really should go to the doc's and tell them about your concerns. Here is a good site
http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/index.html
You can post a question there for more information.