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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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
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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esassd 0
I could see how you could get one, i get so frazzled when i cant capture the Jelly fish in bikini bottom on the spongebob 3-game.
nightowl43 0
Partial seizures often don't show up on EEG's. It took 2.5 yrs. for my focal point to be found for surgery, since the majority of seizures I was having were simple partials and complex partials. They'd secondarily generalize into a tonic clonic once in a while, but that showed on the VEEG like I had seizures starting on both sides. It wasn't until I had Ictal SPECT testing done, that they got a good picture of where the seizures started. Dehydration and stress can both be a cause of seizures when you have epilepsy. Herbal stuff isn't the best thing to try. My license was suspended 23 yrs. ago, because I had a seizure behind the wheel. I had gone 20 yrs. without a major seizure, but they decided to return, and weren't able to be put back under control until I had surgery in '02.
whyme21 0
Hahaha, i thought they made that shitt upp, how would u get a seizure from playing a video game?! that doesnt make any sense..
cxal_fml 0
Photosensitive or pattern sensitive epilepsy - The same effect that enables an EEG to induce seizures is what causes seizures in video games. You are more likely to get a seizure from a video game than an EEG (the test used to diagnose epileptical seizures) because video games have contrasting colors, fast movement, and rapid light flashes. Red in particular induces seizure activity. Whereas the EEG just does rapid flashing white lights, and the lighting is slowed when you show seizure activity, and stopped when you show a seizure. Wheras video games don't stop in response to your brain waves
cxal_fml 0
Even though photosensitive epilepsy is rare in adults (something like 3 % of 1% of the US population), its decently common in children and young teenagers. Also, 1 in 10 people are photosensitive and those people will be likely to experience a non-epileptical seizure if they are repeatedly exposed to flashing bright lights, in particular with contrasting colors over a long period of time -more so if the room isn't well lit and they aren't taking a 15 minute break each hour. most photosensitive people don't know they are photosensitive - people typically only take the test for it if someone in their immediate family has epilepsy
tipsy337 0
Ya that dude was Prototype in the dark. I played that game in the dark for fifteen minutes and I had a massive migrane.
zapskimmer 0
YDI game nerds.
Bl4ck_1c3 2
and teen pregnancy
wrestleshorty 2
ydi... retard
rangermedic77 5
lol at #23
Notorias 4
together, we can find a cure.