urgent case

[aisha989]

hello ,
my brother had epilepsy since he was a child .today he had a seizure then his eyes rolled to his upper eyelid and lost his vision,  . currently he is hospitlaized and uder supervision .
my question is ; is it normal for this to happen and how do we proceede ?

urgent matter
thanks

[charlene222]

I have epilepsy and its not common for your your eyes to roll back thats what usually happens and you usually lose conchenous i would also ask for scans to be made as this happened to me and i found out i had an avm in the brain this is very uncommon and is probably not the case but still worth asking
I hope all goes well

[Gina04]

I don't think it is uncommon for the eyes to roll back like that with a seizure.  Are you saying that after the seizure he was still unable to see?  I would want to have a sleep study done if it were me.  Have them hook him up to an EEG machine for a few days, do things to trigger a seizure, etc. and get a good idea of why he is having seizures.  Then, look at what the options are for treatment.

I had absence seizures and a few grand mals for about 20 years.  I had tried medication but they all made me a zombie and I would still have at least some seizures.  I finally found a surgery that was available and pushed to see if I was a candidate.  I am so glad that I did.  I had the surgery in 2004 and since that time, I have not had any absence or grand mal seizures.  I still have seizure activity on my EEG but it now manifests itself as a headache.  I don't like dealing with the headaches but they are easier to handle than the other types of seizures.

Depending on where he lives, I may be able to direct you to where he could have some of this testing done.