Mega afraid of epilepsy?

I just watched on Netflix Stranger things and there came some light camera flashes and my room was completely dark. When the light came I was scared and then I had such a tingling sensation and I was terrified Mega. Of course, during that time, I was thinking of what if I ever got epilepsy? But after that I thought that I was in the club a year ago and there are always those extreme lights and there was nothing or so and I was never diagnosed anything. Nevertheless, I'm afraid that I can get this at some point although no one in my family has epilepsy. And I'm completely healthy in itself.

Help, I worry too much again, although for a long time everything was fine

"Of course" would certainly not be the appropriate choice of words. A seizure could theoretically occur in any person. The risk here is more likely to be classified as very unlikely. There was never a diagnosis? Then you have no epilepsy. Very easily.

Switch off the light and TV box. Finished. Tingling is too diffuse indication that can be anything. Do you watch television for a long time? Possibly. Already for hours? It is quite possible that it tingles there. Shortly go to the fresh air. That helps too…

All the best!

So now I've read that getting epilepsy in the first 5 years is particularly high and it decreases from the age of 20 years. Can also be with me when that came in, that I thought of it directly.

Every person can get epilepsy at any time. Ergo: Just because there was no diagnosis so far does not mean that you can never get epilepsy.

Yet, what you felt as epilepsy was nothing. And because the tingling or a so-called tingling paraesthesia is completely atypical for epilepsy. You say, suddenly there was light and you were scared = a.e. Triggered by fear. In addition, as my poster already described: too diffuse, as one could assign it to something.

Conclusion: If no family member has epilepsy or ever had, then the chance is quite low, but not excluded.

You can always get epilepsy, whether it's 5, 55, or 95, but it's epilepsy after the second attack. And yes, some sufferers talk of a tingling sensation that they're comparing to having ants running, but since you've never had a seizure and the way you describe the situation, that does not sound like epilepsy to me.

By the way, epilepsy is not hereditary disease, there's no one in the family to get it. There are cases of genetics, but they make up a small percentage. And not every epilepsy patient reacts to flickering or watching TV.

Just turn off the TV more often and if that happens again and your fear does not calm down, go to the neurologist. Really nobody here can tell if you have epilepsy or not.