Can a doctor tell once a person has been
sent to the ER if a person faked a
seizure? We had a woman at work appear to
be faking a seizure but we sent her out
just incase. Would the hospital be able to
determine wether or not she was faking?
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antigone
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Posted: 06-23-08 05:13am
An EEG might reveal some brain activity
that is slow but not always. Seizures
present in many ways. If a person was
faking a seizure a nerologist who was
observing the seizure would likely be able
to tell if it was an actual seizure. Why
do you suspect your coworker was faking a
seizure?
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justforfun
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Posted: 06-23-08 09:26am
because she threatened that she could go
into a diabetic seizure at any minute
bcause she hadn't gotten a chance to eat
(yet she refused all breaks and lunches
and I told her to go eat at that moment).
There was a lot going on with her in the
past several days threating this behavior.
It was about 3 mins later that she had
this so called seizure and just so
happened to do it infront of the only
family member in the entier facility (I
work in a nursing home). When I came
running down the hall to see what was the
matter when the family member notified me
I found her lying on the floor. He said
she "lowered" her self to the floor with
the hand rails in the bathroom then began
shaking. She never fell and never acted
different the few minutes prior to this
happening. Her muscles were not
contracting during this so called seizure
her jaws were no clenched together
actually her jaws were very loose and she
had her tounge hanging out to the side
like a dead dog. And only her right hand
and head were shaking and not very much.
She was not clamy, sweating, no rapid or
slow heart rate. Actually her heart rate
was normal ar 76. And to go into a
diabetic seizure your blood sugar must be
VERY low. And hers was very normal at 111.
I beleive she is trying to sue the
company. She's trying to claim that no one
allows her to take a break and have time
for herself to eat. This is completly
untrue. And I have written statements from
3 of her co-workers backing up the fact
that she was offered breaks and lunches on
several occasions and refused to eat and
did take a 15 min break where she refused
to eat but claimed that she ate a huge
meal right before coming to work. I don't
know but the whole situation sounds really
fishy to me. And as many people as I've
seen have seizures before this one was the
most bizarre. And yesterday she called out
claiming she was sick. We even have
employees that have seizures at least 2-3
times a month and once they gather
themselves they go home rest and return
the next day. I don't know but I think
something is wrong here. What do you
think?
According to your description of the event
she might imitate seizure or she had
hysteric attack. Sometimes imitation or
hysteric attack can be very similar to a
real seizure that doctor's examination is
requested for precise diagnosis. If the
"attack" is finished only EEG-test can
tell us if she really had seizures or
not.
Hysteric attack is result of neurotic
disorder named as hysteria. It looks like
imitation but it is not because that is
the nature of the disease. Hysteric attack
is usually provoked by some situation that
is not pleasant for the person.
Hypoglycemic seizures are real seizures
that can be easily proved by measuring the
blood glucose level. If the glucose level
is under 3.3 mmol/L seizures are probably
due to hypoglycemia.