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My partner died 3 months ago, presumably due to complications of a tonic-clonic seizure.

As with dogs, they had both tonic and clonic seizures shortly after unconsciousness and this progressed to flaccid paralysis.

[1] He was able to function well, excepting occasional complex partial seizures and rare tonic-clonic seizures.

Silly to move forward with medication dosage and other management with just generalized tonic clonic seizures.

I bet my parents would have given anything, their whole world, to have a way to be alerted when their small kid was about to have a generalized tonic-clonic seizure so they could be prepared.

Note that most cases of epilepsy are never diagnosed because most seizures are nocturnal, and focal, not necessarily the tonic/clonic seizures movies have made us familiar with.

As a father of a child with epilepsy* and who has observed many tonic-clonic seizures, I'm horrified by the thought of being an independent adult who would have to deal with them on a regular basis.

That's a bit of a link-bait title, the first line of the abstract reads:"This case report describes a patient who had hypoxia and posthypoxic intention myoclonus and subsequently developed clonic seizures while solving sudoku puzzles.