I was in the hospital a couple years ago and had a catheter for alittle over 2 weeks. I could pee almost right away. The thing I had trouble with was once your done peeing, it will keep dripping. Ha, I would stay in the bathroom for 10 min just waiting for it to stop dripping. That ended up going away after about a month.
The key thing about catheters is that the longer there in, the harder it is to get back into the flow of things.
Also, once a catheter is taken out, there is a chance that you could get a UTI (urinary track infection).
Good luck, the catheter should be the least of your worries :)
Simple partial seizures occur in patients who are conscious, whereas complex partial seizures demonstrate impaired levels of consciousness.
There are two types of febrile seizures: simple (or benign) and complex.
Focal seizures are divided into simple or complex based on the level of consciousness during an attack. Simple partial seizures occur in patients who are conscious, whereas complex partial seizures demonstrate impaired levels of consciousness.
Complex partial seizures have no known cause other than coming from a form of epilepsy. These seizures are often preceded by a seizure aura, and usually resort in an altered state of conciousness.
Spreading of the epileptiform (seizure)discharge during complex partial seizures can result in secondary generalization(which means a partial seizure may spread within the brain-a process known as secondary generalization )with a tonic-clonic convulsion(generalized seizures).so yes,complex partial seizures can become generalized.The mechanism of how this happens is not fully understood in medicine but there are various explanations !!!
The types of seizures often change. In most cases, the drop seizures subside. They are replaced by partial, complex partial, and secondarily generalized convulsions.
Neurontin (gabapentin), Lamictal (lamotrigine), and topiramate (Topamax).treat adults who have partial seizures or partial and grand mal seizures. Another new medication called Levetiracetam (Keppra) has been approved.
Yes. Many types of seizures can cause visual hallucinations, especially complex partial seizures that are centered in the occipital lobes. I have temporal lobe complex partial seizures and always have visual hallucinations. If this is your situation, I'd recommend getting it checked out with a neurologist. Good luck!
I'm thinking Oedipus Complex
Like anyone, a person with epilepsy has 23 pairs of chromosomes. The causes for epilepsy are wide and varied and although it can be inherited, for most people the causes are nothing to do with genetics. The brain is a very complex organ and so many things can go wrong, and some of these things can cause seizures. If you were in an accident and sustained a head injury, it is possible that you would start to have seizures for example. If you have a number of seizures, then you would be diagnosed as having epilepsy. Anyone can have a seizure at any time. Lots of people will have a seizure at some point in their life. People that have epilepsy are people that have seizures several times. So chromosomes have little to do with epilepsy.
Tonic-clonic seizures tend to respond to valproate, carbamazepine, phenytoin, and lamotrigine.
Epilepsy is located in the brain. It depends on which type of seizures you have and the cause as to where it is comming from. Focal (simple and complex partial) seizures come from a single area of the brain. Generalized seizures come from multiple areas of the brain.