Can you get an "epileptic seizure" if you're not epileptic?!


Question: Can you get an "epileptic seizure" if you're not epileptic?
if so, then what could be the cause?

Answers:

There's no such thing as an epileptic seizure, there's just seizures. its what they're caused by that determines if you're epileptic or not. Tons of diseases causes seizures, but epilepsy is the most common. You probably mean you had a grand mal seizure, one with the major shaking, loss of consciousness, and many people can have have those from other diseases or even know reason. But you NEED to see a neurologist right away, because it could be a brain tumor.

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yes you can some people can have one off siezures that nobody really knows why its happened some possible causes may be - fainting , excessive alcohol consumption or drug abuse or if someone has a very high temprature bad panic attacks but if you have a siezure and you dont know the cause you should always go and see a doctor



You'd need to ask a Neurologist.
But yes you can get a range of seizures from a whole list of causes as outlined in the link below.
http://neurology.health-cares.net/seizur…



No, but you can get just a plain old seizure.




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