What should I do if I think I have had a seizure?

What should I do if I think I have had a seizure?

Charles Ribak, Ph.D. (Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, UC Irvine School of Medicine) gives expert video advice on: If I have one seizure, will I definitely have another?; Is there a cure for epilepsy?; What are the surgical treatments for epilepsy? and more...

With regards to the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, if u feel you have had an epileptic seizure you should immediately go to see your general practitioner, your family doctor and discuss the actual event. This could be whether you passed out or observed yourself having a muscle that moved in a very uncontrollable way. Have your family physician talk it over with you; take a case history which shows a background of yourself as the physician knows you better than anybody else. Usually, then what's going to happen is the family physician will refer you to a neurologist who will run a battery of tests to do a workup on the underlying cause of the seizure.