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  • 6/12/2025
In this heartfelt video, I share my intense experience of having a seizure at home and being rushed to the Emergency Department at Gold Coast University Hospital by ambulance. Connected to ECG wires on a stretcher, I discuss next steps with my doctor, who recommends a cardiac echocardiogram to rule out other causes. He reassures me that things are likely okay and explains that 20% of people have a single seizure in their lifetime, with a higher chance of another after the first, but medication isn’t needed unless a second occurs.

This video is for anyone dealing with health scares, curious about seizures, or wanting insight into an ER visit.

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Transcript
00:00so this is my doctor awesome doctor in and your name is Majid Al Aboud and you're a physician yes
00:14I'm a general physician general physician and he's come to see me and he got bad news I have
00:20to stay in hospital for another day yes sorry for that and to make sure that everything is okay yeah
00:27but it's good news I haven't I don't appear to have a heart attack yes or um and I don't have
00:34any tumors in my head that's true that's true but what am I gonna get from my heart an electrocardiogram
00:41or something more so no electrocardiogram which is like ultrasound of the heart yeah just to make
00:47sure that there is nothing abnormal in the heart structure and the muscles and what if there is
00:54well let's leave it until then so the likelihood of abnormal thing on the echo is very minimal
01:00I hope there is nothing in the heart because as I said having this problem can cause the troponin to
01:10go up which is likely the reason why your troponin went up but to make sure that there is nothing wrong
01:18with the heart let's do the echo to be on the same side what could be like if there is something wrong
01:23with it what has to happen like I wouldn't have fear surgery would I no unlikely because you don't
01:30have any chest pain and typical symptoms of heart attack so then definitely there won't be any surgery
01:36yeah and how can I keep my heart healthy after this yeah so you you enjoy your healthy life eating
01:42healthy regular physical activity and the cardiologist recommended that we keep you temporarily on a blood
01:52thinner called aspirin until yeah until we know what is going on with the heart from the echo I I believe
02:00you you you don't you don't need the aspirin after the echo so you won't need it okay yeah and that's fair enough and I'm what are the chances of another seizure hopefully
02:13yeah so there is a chance I mean it is well known that if somebody got a seizure there is they will have
02:21higher chance of having another seizure compared to other people who haven't got any seizure in their life you
02:27know what I mean but as I told you like 20% of people would have at least single seizure during their lifetime just for single time
02:37yeah and this was hopefully my time hopefully that's why we are not starting you on any treatment for the seizure
02:46unless second seizure happens in the future and you think it was um partly um so I've it was partly because of this life
02:57I have no sodium level I have no sodium level which is I'm breastfeeding as I'm drinking a lot
03:03and also lack of sleep yeah chronic lack of sleep of course the fake deprivation is
03:10and of course for seizure no trigger and no trigger I have not had a full night's sleep since I started looking up to you
03:18yeah and um so there's been a lack of sleep and also stress stress as well yeah
03:24yeah
03:24so well okay so I'm here for today tomorrow likely hopefully tomorrow you will go home after we do the
03:34echo and you'll be my doctor you'll come sit here so tomorrow maybe maybe not uh no so tomorrow
03:40definitely will be another doctor I'll start my off days from tomorrow oh okay
03:46all right well it's nice to meet you likewise it's my pleasure to take care of you thank you for your help
03:52and I hope you'll get better soon I hate you so do I thank you thank you so much
03:56so we're still in er or ed we're um we're here till they find us a bed on the ward today's sunday
04:09and they want to do a cardiogram on me but yeah the kids have been really good
04:15ipad helps a lot spencer's just happy on his ipad

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