I was once given a diagnosis of simple partial seizures by a neurologist. An epileptologist said my EEG results (I had many) were not definitive. He wanted me to have a 2 to 6 day in hospital EEG, but I confess that I refused it. Part of the reason was because he wanted to greatly reduce my Tegretol XR (carbamazpine ER) for the test, and hubby was afraid that would destabilize me (I also have bipolar disorder type 1). Really, nothing seizure-like has happened to me for years now.

If I do/did have simple partial seizures, I never had the convulsive kind. In addition to motor (convulsive) type, there are also sensory, emotional, and autonomic types. I would have only experienced sensory and emotional types. The closest to convulsions I had was rapid gibberish and stuttering.