When I was 13 I had a seizure and I remember...?

Question

the pain revolving all around my head especially the back it was like 200 out of 10. I didn't want to be in my body our conscience because it was so painful. This feels like a 5-6 second memory to me now. Everything was black - couldn't see. What happened is a bully pushed me in the gym locker room after PE and I tripped over a bench and fell backwards onto concrete floor on my head. Seizing obviously I was out of it then. The whole thing lasted just a few minutes. But how is it possible for me to remember??

Answer 1

I don't think you're remembering the seizure itself--you're remembering the trauma that set it off.

Seizures are not generally associated with pain, although some people who have seizure disorders know when they're about to have one because they have what's called an 'aura'--I've heard of that including abdominal pain or headache, but you don't have a seizure disorder.

If you had a generalized seizure and lost consciousness, I assume you only know you had one because of what other people described to you later (although not all kinds of seizures involve loss of consciousness either).  

Overall, from what you're saying, you're remembering the fall and the blow to the head, which is what hurt so much.  It's not surprising that you remember that.  I know on TV and in movies people are often portrayed as having some retrograde amnesia for the time just before they were unconscious--no memory of the car accident that landed them in the hospital, for example--but that's not always the case.  There's no reason you wouldn't remember what happened to you just before you seized.