First crisis

When faced with a transient episode of altered neurological function, it is common for your physician to identify or consider that it is an epileptic seizure, produced by an abnormal electrical discharge in the brain.

Symptoms first crisis

The manifestations of epileptic seizures are very varied and usually last a few minutes. They may be subtle such as transient difficulty in speech, subjective disturbances in vision, hearing, sensation, olfaction or mood changes. At other times the manifestations are more obvious such as amnesia, confusion, abnormal movements or even present as an epileptic seizure with tonic-clonic activity (convulsion). During these episodes, people may be disconnected from the environment and persist in a state of confusion until several minutes later.

There are other diseases that can be confused with epileptic seizures, so it is advisable to conduct a proper interview to differentiate them. Syncope is a loss of consciousness caused by a transient decrease in blood flow to the brain, and the absence of other abnormal symptoms should be assessed. Transient ischemic attacks are caused by a thrombus in a cerebral blood vessel that dissolves, and usually produce transient loss of neurological function without abnormal movements. Migraines with aura may be associated with alterations in sensitivity or vision which, unlike crises, usually last longer and are accompanied by pain.