The person loses awareness as partial seizures the seizure begins and appears dazed and confused. The person will exhibit meaningless behaviours such as random walking, mumbling, head turning, or pulling at clothing. These behaviours cannot be recalled by the patient after the seizure. Generealised Absence Seizures During a generalized absence seizure, the person appears to be staring into space and their eyes may roll upwards. This kind of seizure is characterized by 5 to 15 second lapses of consciousness and when it has ended, the person will not recall this lapse of consciousness.
Generalized absence seizures most often occur in childhood and disappear by adolescence.
They are less prevalent in adulthood. Their muscles will stiffen and their body extremities will jerk and twitch. With this type of seizure bladder control may be lost and consciousness is regained slowly. Postictal states Postictal states commonly follow both tonic-clonic and complex partial seizures. As a person regains consciousness after the seizure, they experience fatigue, confusion and disorientation lasting from five minutes, up to hours or even days and, rarely, as long as one to two weeks.