boyfriend had a seziure out of nowhere please help ):

[babiedukes]

Hi, recently my boyfriend had a seizure, he's a healthy 16 year old with no history of seizures, i don't know what could of caused it an ive been woundering for the past 4 days since he had the seizure what could of caused it. He was over at my house sitting in a chair, an we were watching the movie the "Crazies" , he was fine all day an during half the movie, he bent down an put his head between his legs, an in a few seconds he stretched out all stiff an rollign his eyes an tensing up, he was stiff as a board he made one sound, an that was it, he came out of the seizure, he didnt kno who any of us were or anything for about 3-4mins. he threw up a few times an complained that he had a hudge headache, i asked him if he remembered anything before he had the seizure all he could say is " i just remeber watchin the movie" .

i don't know what could of caused it, if anyone could help me i would highly appreciate it. thanks so much!

[darobow]

I see this post is six years old however I hope I can still comment and share what I know about this. It sounds like your boyfriend had a Grand Mal or Tonic-Clonic seizure when that happens the best thing you can do for someone in that position is just minimize safety hazards (chairs, tables, etc) and roll him on his side to keep his airway (mouth and nose) clear if the seizure persists for (and I may be wrong here) 10-15 minutes call 9-1-1. They could be experiencing status epilepticus at that point and develop hypoxia (lack of oxygen start showing cyanosis which is bluish gray discoloration around the lips) when people have seizures like the one you described they do not/cannot breathe. I'm not a doctor I am just speaking from personal experience.  A little sidenote do not put things such as a spoon or stick in his mouth while this is happening that is dated information and could ruin his teeth if he were to bite down. Seizure victims have never bitten their tongue off if anything you would probably need to be worried about the tongue actually blocking off the airway. Also he could've been experiencing a dystonic reaction which mimics a seizure. I see this post was from 2010 and I'm sure you may already know what I have written down. Also I have never seen the movie "Crazies" however if there were some scenes where there were flashing lights or random colors that could trigger a seizure and head trauma could cause seizures as well. I hope this helps and I hope I wasn't simply repeating information that you have may have since researched for your boyfriend's well-being.

[Guvan]

I saw this movie in theaters and the same thing happened to my girlfriend halfway through. Kind of strange . It was about half way through the movie as you said and the exact same things happened. Eyes rolling back and weird, strange gasping, non responsive. All of a sudden she came to and threw up on the seat in front of her and tried to get up and leave so I assisted her , she was weak in the knees and buckling. We had to wait for the movie to finish as our friends drove us. She didn't know what was happening and just felt embarrassed and sorry . The employees at the theatre were very helpful but the incident was quite scary. No issues before or after ... Must be something wrong with the movie or techniques used to induce fear .. I don't know.  It happened years ago and this crossed my mind today. I googled it and surprisingly found this incident that sounds 100% similar.