Today, I was so excited to play the video game I just bought, I decided to read the manual in the game. I went over the seizure warning and thought to myself, who the hell gets a seizure from playing a video game? Apparently I do. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was introduced to Minecraft. I haven't blinked in 5 hours. FML
Today, my boss's obese bully of a grandson had a seizure. Being the only physician around, I had to rush in to tend to him. Except it wasn't a seizure as such. My daughter had found my taser and used it on him. FML
Today, I was trying to explain to my mom that I've been having panic attacks. I ended up having a panic attack from talking about having a panic attack. FML
Today, I was watching a movie on TV. One of the characters has the same name as my dog, and when his name was called, my dog got so excited that he jumped face-first into my TV. FML
Today, out of curiosity, I took an online test to see if I have ADHD. Halfway through, I got so distracted and bored that I gave up. I guess I know the answer then… FML
Today, I accidentally set my hair on fire while lighting a cigarette. I panicked and put it out by slapping myself in the face. FML
Today, at work, I jumped under my desk in fear of a nuclear missile attack when the firestation next us let out its new awareness siren. I think I'm going insane. FML
Today, as I waited to fly home, a very attractive woman smiled and gestured towards the seat next to me. However, a hyperactive child and his mother barged past into said empty seats. The woman really hit it off with the guy behind, while I was stuck listening to a kid scream at Angry Birds. FML
Today, I was teasing my cat with a piece of string when suddenly my phone rang. I answered it with one hand and put the string down with the other onto my lap. The beast seized the opportunity to spring, claws out, onto my privates. FML
Today, I slammed the car door on my head while I was getting in the car. If that wasn't bad enough, my boyfriend is convinced I now have a concussion and insists on waking me up every hour to make sure I'm still alive. FML
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Win_fml 0
Heed the warning, bro. They don't make this shit up.
fakkumairaifu 14
When will people remember this? Just because ALL THE FMLs AUTOMATICALLY start with "Today", it doesn't mean that they happened the same day! Anyway, that sucks a lot, especially if you're a big gamer - I'd be bummed if it were me. I'm curious about what game it was now, though.
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sus 0
@31, THANK YOU. Epilepsy is associated with seizures, but you can have a seizure without having epilepsy. OP - I hope you're feeling better. My dad had a seizure out of nowhere while he was sleeping this past fall, and he chewed up his tongue pretty badly and didn't get his memory totally back for a week or two.
percypigs 0
FYL seizures are like the scariest things ever
Vasir 2
I hate when people dont tell me what game it is..
graintrain 0
Wait...You can recover from a seizure in few minutess? Why doesn't anyone at the epilepsy research center know that - they've told me to expect 6 months after the seizures have completely stopped for my memory and academic ability to return to what it was before, and thats only if I'm lucky enough to have them stopped. Why doesn't my brain know that you can recover from seizures in minutes- I could be working right now if I could fully recover from these seizures in minutes. I could finish college because I'd have a short term memory that lasts longer than a day, and my academic ability would be where it was before they started. More importantly, why do these neurologists, epileptologists, researchers, and fellow patients at the epilepsy research center not know that you loose conciousness from seizures. Most of us never lose conciousness when we have seizures. I've never lost conciousness from a seizure, yet I have a Vagus Nerve Stimulator to stop them. Thank you 22 for showing me that none of the neurologists, or epileptologists I've seen have had any idea of what a seizure is or how it effects people. I should rip this battery out of my chest. Clearly something else must be going on with me, and with most people with epilepsy, since complex partial seizures also typically only involve impaired conciousness (not loss of them). All these years, the doctors have been lying to us about what seizures involve, and how they effect us. Seriously, 90 percent of the patients at Rush, could easily stop taking their meds, and seeing doctors if they could recover from their seizures in minutes. In fact, most people wouldn't take seizure meds at all if they could recover from a seizure in minutes, because there would be no point in spending thousands of dollars a month to prevent "a few minutes of problems" every so often. People wouldn't qualify for disability based on having 4 seizures a week if you could recover from seizures so soon. And an EEG is the most important thing to get after having a seizure but it won't show anything about the severity of your seizure focus (which is impossible by the way is seizure focuses can't be severe - thats like saying "my pinky is more severe than your pinky") EEGs are used to determine if you have epilepsy, but they can't determine if you don't have epilepsy. And having a seizure during an EEG doesn't mean the EEG will record it - if your focus is deep, you may never find out where your seizures are originating from
Arcterion 0
Roflololol. Sucks to be you, mang. Also, tl;dr @ 47
panda_rectum 0
#17 hell yes for the simpsons reference
darkmis1 18
That sux-I used to have epilepsy(I grew out of it), but I know how you feel. I never got one from playing a video game though, but I sympathyze.
cxal_fml 0
Here's to hoping you that way. From 1999-2007, I had "grown out of epilepsy" too. Now I've such a severe case that were I under 16, I could get a trip from MAW. The big things to look out for now are being close in age to 26 (when your brain stops developing), and if you are a woman, perimenapause/menapause.
lilnurse_44 0
oh man that sucks. I work in an ER and most of our seizure patients were sitting at a slot machine... be careful!!
zoombabwee 0
Wow ur a spas
16274692 0
HAHAAHAAHA