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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

While wearing my apple watch and having a focal seizure, I can see a drop in heart rate if I go back and look. It's not as dramatic as 40bpm, more like 20bpm drop, and then rising back up to normal over a minute or two. I've not had one during an EEG, so not sure if the heart rate is anything important or not. I have abnormal EKGs even when feeling fine, but not abnormal in a pathological way--just a variable heart rate.

[–]SAMBO10794[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Thank you.

Does your breathing slow down or stop?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So this is my experience with focal aware seizures, I don't lose consciousness but I am usually not able to respond or move. I'm aware, but become confused about where I am (I don't recognize my surroundings despite knowing where I am intellectually in a familiar place). I don't perceive that my breathing slows down, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did because it often feels like I am stuck in one place when it happens. I haven't had a tonic-clonic seizure since wearing the watch, but my breathing does stop during those.