I think I have had two seizures in my life but I'm not sure. I don't have health insurance and going to a doctor isn't practical. I think both seizures were medication related, one to a sleep aid and one to an anti-depressant.   


Basically, my entire body was tingling and felt like when your foot falls asleep. I was not able to move but my mind was working. I was lying down both times and one happened when I was trying to go to bed and the other happened in the middle of the night and woke me up. The first time, I lay there paralyzed until I could find a way to inch over to my purse and take an anti-epileptic medication that I take for anxiety (prescribed, Klonopin) but that I knew could also stop a seizure, and it was effective in stopping the seizure and I went back to sleep. The second time, I was confused because it happened while I was asleep, I woke up in the middle of the night terrified and unable to move but feeling the same way as I had felt with the one other seizure, went back to sleep eventually and woke up just feeling unwell and tired and proceeded to sleep for nearly twelve hours that night.   


I still don't know if either were seizures, but if anyone is familiar with them, what else could it possibly be if it involved a tingling sensation all over my body, an inability to move, my brain still working and being cognizant of what was happening, and in the case of the second one, my heart feeling like it was beating out of my chest.   


Has anyone else experienced anything like this and could it be anything other than a seizure? I had transient Bell's Palsy due to stress in the past but I don't think it's related. I have stress-induced vertigo sometimes but haven't had an attack in years. I had a brain scan years ago and the results had indicated that I had never had a seizure but this was prior to both episodes that I believe were seizures. What else just totally paralyzes you like that other than a seizure?