crying during a seizure - Epilepsy Message Board

maureen6276 · 07-29-2006, 11:56 AM

has anyone ver experience /witnessed uncontollable crying during a seizure? I've heard of crying out...but does that mean crying?

EWF · 07-29-2006, 12:15 PM

Yes, I experience crying during seizures. Crying seizures are known as dacrystic seizures. However, I think that the reference many people make to "crying out" before or during a seizure means something different.

neurowreck · 07-29-2006, 04:55 PM

The 'crying out' before a grand mal is the sudden expulsion of air from the lungs prior to the tonic clonic phase- some have it, others don't...but it's not unusual.

Prior to seizures, co-workers would notice that my mood became more negative and sensitive.....cried a couple of times, but was also changing meds then....made me a blithering idiot. I'd cry at anything.

aussie308 · 07-29-2006, 06:19 PM

I have experieced crying just a few minutes before a seiz. without reason a couple of times, and have appearantly cried during a seiz. or at the end of one before I'm aware of anything. I don't know how many times this has happenedbut my husband has commented a few times that I was crying during the seiz.

mscheid · 07-31-2006, 08:23 AM

I noticed this past weekend that my 15 month old started crying uncontrollably for no apparent reason and then had a seizure about an hour later....I wonder if the two were related???