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friday night my daughter was sleeping downstairs on the floor (she is 17, the was around 2am) she got a call from her brother telling her to opening the front door and let him and his friend in.  She woke up again when they got there and she talked to them briefly and she went back to sleep.  Her brother and friend went to sleep downstairs also and they woke up to her making choking sounds.  The went over to her laying on the floor (the light was on in the livingroom)and said her eyes were rolling back in her head and she was choking.  They woke her but she didn't reconize them and panicked and ran upstairs to my room with them following her.  She was so scared that she couldn't get my bedroom door open which woke me up and finally she got in and she was in a panic telling me their were two guys in the house and I could see behind her that is was my son and his friend so I'm telling her this and she just wasn't getting it and she jumped into my bed and went right back to sleep.  So I then asked the boys what happened and they told me so then I went over to her and woke her up and then she was fine but realized she had bit her tongue and it was bleeding.  She has never had this happen to her before and I have made a doctors appt.  But it sounded like a seizure to me but she wasn't shaking when the boys went over to her.  Any suggestions would be helpful.  Thanks!
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Well, I'm sorry that you were taught different info. then I was taught. We were taught from different Dr.'s.
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I just want to clarify:

I was taught that you should never ever put something in a seizing person's mouth!  It is dangerous both to the victim and to the responder - it could break and truly cause choking, hurt their teeth, etc.

I was also taught that it is nearly impossible to choke on your own tongue and that the best thing you can do is turn the seizing person on to their left side to attempt to clear the airway (without sticking anything in the mouth) and take pressure off major arteries for the best possible oxygen flow.  

For what it's worth, many seizures do not involve convulsions, and the experience you described with your daughter sounds very much like a seizure to me.  Good for you for making an appointment!
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I have had seizures since I was 11 and I am now 33. What you have described about your daughter does sound like a seizure, very much so.
Many times I have had seizures and bit the side of my tongue and it started bleeding. Lots of times when I was younger I had gran-mal seizures. My eyes did roll back in my head.
At the time that your daughter was choking meant that she was choking on her tongue. The Dr.'s tell me to have someone stick a spoon in my mouth, down on my tongue when I had gran-mal seizures so I wouldn't swallow my tongue and choke on it.
Also, I have had seizures where I didn't shake either. Some of them I have.
I am on three differen't kinds of seizure med's and the Dr. is still trying to get my seizures controlled with the medicine.

Hope this helped.
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