Comments by "Just Another Bucky Lover" (@JustAnotherBuckyLover) on "What's Actually Happening During a Seizure" video.

  1. To clarify, The ketosis necessary to manage (usually) severe childhood epilepsy that is refractory to medication is very different from your regular keto diet. It MUST be carried out very strictly under medical monitoring because the risk is high and just one slip, one sandwich, one candy bar, one regular soda instead of a sugar-free one, will result in those uncontrollable seizures returning very suddenly. That's if the diet works at all (though, technically there are two). It's only about a 50:50 chance and there's no way to predict who will or won't respond well. Because they both are virtually carbohydrate-free, however, and may or may not also limit protein, they can also cause problems with cholesterol level, kidney issues, GI upsets, not to mention poor nutrition and growth. It's incredibly limiting, and this is why it's usually reserved for only those with the most uncontrollable seizures.
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  2.  @thiskneegrow  Not even slightly true. Literally every part of this is wrong apart from the human body being complicated.
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  3.  @nerychristian  yeah, no.
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  4. I think sometimes we get this kind of "aura" (pun intended) when something isn't quite right with our bodies. I feel like I jinxed myself by saying to my (at the time) partner that I felt so lucky that I'd never had cystitis - I woke up the next morning at 5am with the worst symptoms from what turned out to be my first attack of interstitial cystitis (which is kind of like having the worst UTI but constantly, and it's not caused by an infection so you can't fix it with antibiotics). 🤦‍♀
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  5. I had febrile seizures as a baby too. Apparently, I was so sick that our neighbours refused to let us wait for the ambulance and drove my mum and me to the hospital because he was so worried about me. I was in for a couple of days while they treated me and did tests, but I didn't realise that our neighbour actually was the local coroner, so he's the person who would have been doing my autopsy had I not made it, and he had nightmares for weeks about me turning up on his autopsy table. I suppose I always underestimated how big of a deal that was, because I know febrile seizures are so common, but I guess I was sicker than I realised. And that was before I caught measles and ended up hospitalised again (I was vaxxed, and the medical staff said that was probably the only reason I didn't end up blind, deaf, brain-damaged or dead).
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  6.  @jennyjen7000  😂🤡
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  7. I mean, that's not true, really. Plenty of people develop seizure disorders (including epilepsy) after a traumatic brain injury or infection in/around the brain, etc.
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  8. Why would what happen? The lack of awareness? Well, your brain just experienced a massive misfiring, like a computer that locked up. It takes a while for your brain to "reboot" and you to get everything functioning normally again, including memory and awareness.
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