How Can I Manage Seizures?

Most people that have seizures are able to manage them well. In this video, family physician Sharecare Advisory Board member Daniel Spogen, MD, explains how his patients who have seizures manage their seizures.

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So most people that have seizures manage themselves really well. In fact, it's not unusual that I'll have some of my patients come

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in for their annual check-up and say, I haven't had any seizure during the whole year. And so that's great. A lot of patients with

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seizure disorders have what we call auras. And the auras say, hey, a seizure is on its way. And so that's one of the questions I'll

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ask our patients that have seizures, is how many auras have you had this past year. And you can pretty much predict if the person's

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getting more and more auras they're eventually gonna have a seizure. So that helps. So if you're a patient that has a seizure disorder

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and you're noticing these auras show up more and more frequently, then you know that you're going down the path of maybe having a seizure

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and you should either check your medication levels or have your doctor check with you to see if you need a change of medication.