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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Epilepsy / November 2005Driving experience
Has anyone ever driven somewhere and not known how they got there - totally lost like someone dropped you off (but only you were in the driver seat)? I was on my way to my mother's house and that was the last thing I remember (but I almost forgot that) I was in a neighborhood not far from my mother and I have never been there so I was lost and scared. I stopped on the side of the road until I remembered where i was going and not afraid to figure my way to my mothers. She has been living the same place and I visit 2-3 times a week or more. It is like a gap in my day that is just gone. The street that I turned on is no where near where i needed to be. Is this normal (LOL) people say that your body starts going at 30?!?! I forget in the middle of sentences what I was talking about but this takes the cake!!! I would be careful. I had that problem on the interstate, but it was not as bad as your episode. Mine didn't seem normal, but probably was. I just listened to a book on cassette and drove for an hour and was surprised how it took my mind off of the driving. Like I was driving instinctively without thought or memory, just concentrating on what I was listening to. It scared the doo doo out of me. E.B. > Has anyone ever driven somewhere and not known how they got there - > totally lost like someone dropped you off (but only you were in the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > starts going at 30?!?! I forget in the middle of sentences what I was > talking about but this takes the cake!!! Actually, it's probably about 28, but depends on the warranty... Lots of things we do 'normally' can be done on autopilot and don't necessarily correlate with events similar to an Absence Seizure. I have lots of times during the week where I realize I've stopped reading a book I had out (as I had switched to listening to an item on the radio), then forget where I left off and have to start back. I think it just comes from getting old (see line 1). I usually try to think of synonyms for what I was about to do, or where was I about to go when I interrupted myself (shoes and garden gloves on-- I was going out to vacuum up some more leaves.) G./ I think you need to see a doctor. The fact you also were lost and scared is quite a bit more than the average space out. I'm 43 and I have never had anything like that unless I had a seizure, and even then not really. There all different kinds and this may require a test or two, to find out if it is at all. > Has anyone ever driven somewhere and not known how they got there - > totally lost like someone dropped you off (but only you were in the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > starts going at 30?!?! I forget in the middle of sentences what I was > talking about but this takes the cake!!! Yep It's happened to me too, only I was driving a motor bike at the time and ended half way across town. I still don't know how I went through all those lights and intersections without a scratch. Gari > Has anyone ever driven somewhere and not known how they got there - > totally lost like someone dropped you off (but only you were in the > driver seat)? Not quite the same, but I had a similar experience with a bike. I "came to" riding my bike around the block, and thought "huh, I seem to remember being in the kitchen. Sure enough, on returning back home I found a knife on the floor and a half-sliced onion. I've since had several seizures on a bike or while walking where my physical actions continued as normal even though I was blacked out (though none of the others involved starting an action). I guess you could call them barely-generalized CP. Karl > > Has anyone ever driven somewhere and not known how they got there - > > totally lost like someone dropped you off (but only you were in the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Karl Howdy! Similar experience for me too -- while walking. I was walking down the street... Next thing I knew, I was 4 blocks away walking in the opposite direction!  SignatureDave ©¿© "Ego sum quis Ego sum quod ut est quicumque Ego sum" http://www.howdydave.com I had that happen at a flea market, Dave. Then I fell on my face with a seizure and busted my chin wide open on the gravel. Next thing I knew some gung-ho EMTs were cutting my nice shirt to pieces. After getting the stitches out, have had to have a beard ever since. I never post here but I just had to for this. If some of you are driving and do not even know how you got there or where you are Why are you still driving? Do you have to hurt yourself or someone else to make you see it is not worth it. Mary Finney > I had that happen at a flea market, Dave. Then I fell on my face with > a seizure and busted my chin wide open on the gravel. Next thing I > knew some gung-ho EMTs were cutting my nice shirt to pieces. After > getting the stitches out, have had to have a beard ever since. That was several years ago for me Mary. Do some more reading. > That was several years ago for me Mary. Do some more reading. You didn't say that in this post. --> I had that happen at a flea market, Dave. Then I fell on my face with a seizure and busted my chin wide open on the gravel. Next thing I knew some gung-ho EMTs were cutting my nice shirt to pieces. After getting the stitches out, have had to have a beard ever since. I've said on so many posts that I haven't suffered a big seizure in years that I don't really care anymore, G. Sorry I offended your superior intellect. > knew some gung-ho EMTs were cutting my nice shirt to pieces. After > getting the stitches out, have had to have a beard ever since. You should be glad you're a man then . . . /\ ole k SignatureIf a problem can't be solved, then what is the use of worrying? If a problem can be solved, then what is the need of worrying? (Shantideva) >I never post here but I just had to for this. If some of you are >driving and do not even know how you got there or where you are Why are >you still driving? Do you have to hurt yourself or someone else to make >you see it is not worth it. Mary Finney Ellipsoid pluralities! I know plenty of people who aren't epileptics who have the same experience. Yes at first it seems freaky ("I don't remember going round the last roundabout and the five miles before it" but almost everybody does it, especially if their minds are occupied. The brain goes on autopilot and the "standard driving program" is initiated. Does this mean that everyone with this experience should be banned (it'd keep the roads mighty free!)? The only thing I hate is being in a string of traffic, going through a junction and then looking in my mirror and seeing an empty road behind me - I always worry that I must have driven straight through a set of red lights and left carnage in my wake! SignatureMalcolm Well it is not my "Superior Intellect" that you have offended. You actually have offended nothing to me. All I am reading is that other drivers do the same so it is OK that if you have Epilepsy you can drive and do the same.Well other drivers may be doing the same but they have one thing that we all don't have. They are not driving and then having a seizure. So their reflex are going to work. They are going to know how they got where they are. If they get pulled over they will make sence because they are not having some type of seizure. And I am not talking about the person who has gone without a seizure for years and can drive. I am talking about the ones like you who can't even remember how you got to where you got to. So it is not Superior Intellect it is just plain old Common Sense. Please Be Safe. Mary Finney >Well it is not my "Superior Intellect" that you have offended. You >actually have offended nothing to me. All I am reading is that other [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >how you got to where you got to. So it is not Superior Intellect it is >just plain old Common Sense. Please Be Safe. Mary Finney Superior intellect? How did we get into this discussion in the first place? :) SignatureMalcolm Post #2: I never stated WHEN that particular incident happened. Post #12, I was addressing and joking with G. Ross for his pointing out my mistake, not aiming at you Ms. Finney. Sorry for the misunderstanding, E.B. hmmm ... I have been trying to get answers from my doctors as to what happens to me when I am like that. SOMETHING is happening but i get treated like "oh... she is crazy and does not know it ... don't tell her" The driving /lost thing happened that bad one time - it stands out in my memory because I was so afraid. I have heard other peole say that they were so tired when they left work that they don't remember how they got home. I have experienced that too and it was VERY different from that. What do I do? Make an appointment with a neurologist and tell him that I have these strange episodes and can't explain them? The thing is that it is not all of the time ... I had an EEG a few years ago when I was blacking out (which does not happen anymore) and they said everything was withing normal range with "mild background slowing" when i was drowsy. So ... maybe I am crazy ... and all of this is normal ...
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