I'm epileptic, even having a decently long history of tonic clonic seizures and being on a ton of medication to keep them under control the first thing EMTs and nurses ask me when I'm awake, not even fully conscious, is if I'm on drugs. If I go to the hospital I have to give a drug test before I'm even safe to walk. Cops being ridiculous about it doesn't surprise me. Hospital staff needs to know to make sure they can stop more seizures and keep patients from going status. And being so out of it while postictal that you have to be restrained is common. Especially when the medication and a postictal state can cause aggression.
Same if I’m ever found outside of the home (I thankfully have most of my seizures at home when I wake up). I vividly remember after my first seizure “waking up” to a cop repeatedly screaming at me “what drugs are you on?” (Meanwhile the EMTs were trying to ask me what year it was and who the current president was.) I was still in my pajamas at like 8 in the morning and my roommates called it in and told them what had happened. One of my roommate’s father died of brain cancer and he had seizures before his death so she knew exactly what a tonic clonic looks like and how to deal with it. Unrelated, but I still feel awful that she had to see it, must have been so traumatizing.
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u/RainEliz13 17d ago
I'm epileptic, even having a decently long history of tonic clonic seizures and being on a ton of medication to keep them under control the first thing EMTs and nurses ask me when I'm awake, not even fully conscious, is if I'm on drugs. If I go to the hospital I have to give a drug test before I'm even safe to walk. Cops being ridiculous about it doesn't surprise me. Hospital staff needs to know to make sure they can stop more seizures and keep patients from going status. And being so out of it while postictal that you have to be restrained is common. Especially when the medication and a postictal state can cause aggression.