My BF and I experienced something recently that has me concerned ,that he is chosing now to pretend did not happen. In the middle of the night in his sleep he screamed out a horrific wail, while still asleep and began to exhibit all the signs of a seizure- body tremors, flailing etc. He also had a throat full of phlegm and was choking on it. I rolled him on his side and held him there until his throat cleared and he became still. Then I watched him for about twenty minutes while he appeared to be asleep. He turned on the light shortly after that and was staring at me like he did not know me, (I assumed it was the fugue stage after a seizure). He looked at me and said "who the f are you and why are you in my bed?" He does not cuss so that in itself was alarming as well as the fact that he was reaching for his gun as he said it. I got him to listen to my voice and he calmed down and asked me to tell him my name. After a period of question and answers he got it all back and remembered every thing about us and our lives but not the seizure. His lip was shredded inside and he says that he has woken up twice before with injuries in his mouth but no one told him he was doing anything, wouldn't they have known if they were right there? If he did not yell out first they may have slept thru it but he did not accept that answer. He now refers to it, if at all as the night he had the nightmare and refuses to accept that he may have had a seizure.
DID he have a seizure?
Should I be concerned for his health?
How do you recommend I address this if at all? At this point it is not a topic of conversation unless he brings it up. He was so scared the next morning that this may mean it was a turn towards health challenges and that I would not want to deal with it. I have assured him that would not be the case so he has decided to ignore the event.
Any thoughts?
Edited by Sammie, 23 January 2009 - 05:07 AM.