people that suffer from epilepsy?

[miguel sanz]

I would apply the same rule, the traumatism can leave an epileptogenic lession

 

[fairybasslet]

I would apply the same rule, the traumatism can leave an epileptogenic lession

I wonder if it would also apply to having a seizure due to a high fever?

 

[miguel sanz]

I wonder if it would also apply to having a seizure due to a high fever?

if it´s during infancy it doesn´t, well, in fact it does ´cause they will be more than 2 years between the seizure and the certification

 

[CIMI Diver]

Recently i learnt to dive and absolutely love it! but i recently had an epileptic fit and convulsions, which as you can imagine is not good! but this does not render me epileptic because it is the first time it happened, they dont know why it happened, and (hopefully) it wont happen again! So im not sure whether i should go diving again or not! if anyone could advise me on the situation i would be very grateful, as i definitely want to go diving again!!! (especially now that im in aus!)

As someone who has had to rescue an a person who was having epileptic convulsions I would highly recommend that you do not dive until you have had a complete neurological workup done by a neurologist that understands diving medicine. It happened back in 1980's when I was 14 years old. I was diving with my step dad and he decided that he did not want to do the 3rd dive. The DM paired me up with another diver whose buddy did not want to do the dive. My new buddy did not tall me that he had epilepsy, and started to convulse at 40'. I was able to get him to the surface, ascending at what was at the time a safe rate of ascent (60'/min). I can still remember the incident very vividly more that 20 years later.