Just got back from Hospital [Archive]

res1492

4th Mar 2005, 09:33 AM

OMG :shock:
I was playing UT for like 4 Hours yesterday and im looking at my clock thinking "Right im gonna stop playing after this game"....Then BAMM
I woke up in hospital....i had, had some kind of Epileptic Fit from loooking at the screen for so long....well thats what the doc said.
My girlfriend said that she was down stairs doing the cleaning and all that she heard was a bang and then lots of thumping.
The Bang was me falling off my chair and the thumping was my head bouncing off the table leg as i was fitting (Hehehe)
It wasnt funny at the time but now its past i can laugh about it.
The thing is that i have never had a fit before and there was no warning, i felt fine one mintue and the next i was in hospital...i dont remember the ambulance or anything
And now the doc says i can only play UT for 20mins then i have to have a 20 mintue break....:sadeyes:
Somtimes just one round lasts 20 mintues.:cry1:
So be warned if it can happen to me then it can happen to anyone!!!

LAMONT

4th Mar 2005, 09:36 AM

I once pulled off an 8 hour shift early on when I found Cains. I couldn't stop!

Sorry to hear what happened to you Res. That sucks.

BigTwinky

4th Mar 2005, 09:39 AM

Glad to hear that you are ok.

Did the doc give any more explanation? Is this permanent?

LAMONT

4th Mar 2005, 09:41 AM

Musta been crazy Mac voodoo

res1492

4th Mar 2005, 09:46 AM

Glad to hear that you are ok.

Did the doc give any more explanation? Is this permanent?

Well he didnt want to put me on drugs because he said that the Drugs that they use to treat Epileptic fits can be dangerous (If you dont have Epilepsy) and he couldnt even be sure that it was Epilepsy.
He basically said "Wait untill it happens again and if it does we'll drug you up"
But i hope its not permanent....life without UT would be like a broken pencil..........pointless :D

Fits sure do take a lot out of ya
I feel like i have done a 5 Hour work out in a gym....and this lump on my head from nutting the table leg hurts like hell

Premonition

4th Mar 2005, 10:06 AM

well with cains ctf down... who would wanna play for more than 20 mins.

If you say you were playing ons when it happened, i will be truly convinced ons is evil and making people sick. The feeling i get while playing on is that of a warm sensation inside (no its not a york peppermint patty sensation rather.) like i just ate a number 5 combo from tacobell.
Maybe this will change when xloc makes a special appearance in ons :)

but seriously good to hear your alright. Take cair.

Slaughter

4th Mar 2005, 10:25 AM

Take care of yourself man. That does not sound good.

well with cains ctf down... who would wanna play for more than 20 mins.
Well, ya know, I've looked over at the Atari forums the last few days and typically there is a thread that starts pretty quick when Cain's ONS server is down for more than an hour or so. There's been nary a peep from anyone there about Cain's CTF being down.

Hmmm...

Premonition

4th Mar 2005, 11:07 AM

woops wrong thread

res1492

4th Mar 2005, 02:12 PM

but seriously good to hear your alright. Take cair.
Take care of yourself man. That does not sound good.

Thanks guys :D

Amwryn

4th Mar 2005, 02:19 PM

Im a Marathon player :)

its not uncommon for me to play for 12 hours at a time, and usually if i sit down at the computer im there for at least 4 hours.

Glad you are ok, but now the important question.... Did Your Team Win the Round!?!?!?

seriously though, thats sucks. take care of yourself man!

res1492

4th Mar 2005, 02:31 PM

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Glad you are ok, but now the important question.... Did Your Team Win the Round!?!?!?

seriously though, thats sucks. take care of yourself man!

Thats the thing thats annoying me the most ......i cant remember :shock:
The ambulance man told my girlfriend that i was going on about "Building the Node" and shouting "Pancake" too see if it meant anything to her. :D :D :D
Apparently i was conscious and mumbling all the way to the hospital but i dont remember a thing

I think i'll book myself in for a "Catscan"to see how many brain cells i lost.....i dont have many spare
I can see the headline in next weeks papers"Unreal Tournament ate my Brain"

BurgerForLunsh

4th Mar 2005, 03:16 PM

Sorry about what happened, res.

I've played many times for more than 6 hours I think. To me it seems strange to have things like what happened to you happen to me. Not that I'm saying you're stupid. Heck, there may be some people who will fall like that after playing for only one hour.

I know about people falling asleep at their computers or people looking in the mirror and seeing red eyes from looking at the computer screen, but I've never heard of epileptic fits. But it does sound serious. It would be a good idea to listen to you if we don't want this to happen to us.

Because, if we let that happen to us, some people will get the impression that we have no life and live at our computer. :tard:

res1492

4th Mar 2005, 05:26 PM

ok i have been thinking about it some more and now i can remeber a bit more just before the fit happened.
I remember looking away from the screen and seeing like a tiny black dot floating in front of my eyes and when i concentrated on it i could see a tiny pic of UT playing away
It was weird :shock:

But to answer your question about you not hearing of this happening to anyone else, i hadnt either untill i woke up in the hospital and the doc told me that it was more common than you would think.
Its like before a movie comes on TV theres a warning saying that "it contains flashing images" and if you suffer from epilepsy not to watch it.

My muscles are aching sooo bad ATM from tensing up it feels like i have done a work out
So i look at it this way .....if i have a fit atleast 3 times a week i'll have a six pack in no time at all :D

Oh BTW thanks for all your kind words ...i thought you were all just gonna call me a freak and laugh :oops:

??Kevin??

4th Mar 2005, 05:46 PM

Amwryn

4th Mar 2005, 06:33 PM

if a seizure is being really annoyed and thinking "man thats some crappy midi sound" then i just had one.....

again no offence, but i can see a guy laid out on a streacher saying "Gotta build the node..." "please!! i gotta build the node!" then grabbing the EMT by the lapels of his wind breaker and yelling "LINK ME YOUR FOOLS LINK ME!!!"

BurgerForLunsh

4th Mar 2005, 07:58 PM

LOL!!!

That's the kind of thing Ethan from Ctrl-Alt-Del comics would start to say. Only worse... :P

[TT]BrundleFly

4th Mar 2005, 09:26 PM

My girlfriend said that she was down stairs doing the cleaning and all that she heard was a bang and then lots of thumping.

Interesting...

When I got the girlfriend downstairs, there is alot of banging and thumping too...

:2thumbs:

Road_Ratt

5th Mar 2005, 01:12 AM

So be warned if it can happen to me then it can happen to anyone!!!

Yep probably so. I guess I've been one of the lucky ones. I've been playing computer games for almost 4 yrs. now ever since I got my first pc. I started out with the original Unreal then moved on to ut99 from there to Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and now I'm playing ut2k4 with only a few games inbetween. When I first started out I played several hours a day but now I don't do much else at all. I have been playing ut2k4 at least 6+ hours most days for 3 months now with a lot of 10+ hr days in there. I have been taking a short break from the game for about a little over a week now but I will be back soon enough. The problem is there are not enough new maps to keep up my interest unlike DM there use to be a new map almost every day it seemed. But I guess it is hard to keep coming out with enough great ONS maps suitable for a 32 player server. Anyway I don't know where I'm going with this other than to say I guess I've been lucky with all the time I spend on my pc. I don't know what I'd do if I could only spend 20 min. at a time playing games. Glad to hear you are O.K. and I hope to see you on-line soon even if it's only for a short time. :)

Fenris Wolf

5th Mar 2005, 01:22 AM

One seizure really isn't anything to worry about. I had one back in 3rd grade, doc put me on Tegratol for a little while, then took me off it. I never had anything since. And now the FAA entrusts a First Class Medical to me.

My expierence was slightly different though...it happened at night in my bed. I felt, well, drunk is the best was to explain it, and was able to call for my parents before I went into the fit. The next thing I remember is being out in the living room and there being some flashing lights outside (the ambulance) and I couldn't talk. I could make sounds, but nothing intelligible. I then went to sleep at that point (not passed out, I was tired) and woke up in the hospital. I had all manner of EEG's, CAT scans and MRI's in the next 2 days. But like I said, that was the only time it ever happened. My neurologist told me 4 years ago when I was going for my medical that I have as much chance of suffering another seizure as someone who has never had one before does. And so far, nothing's triggered it...or I haven't fallen out of my chair :D

res1492

5th Mar 2005, 05:38 AM

Here is the first thing that came to my mind when I read your story [Please dont click this link res...PLEASE DONT!]

http://www.seizurerobots.com/ [I left it in that form so res could have some idea what the site is...

btw, sorry that happened!

Hehehe telling NOT to do something is gonna make me want to do it even more ya fool!!
And i see why its called seizurerobots now :lol:

WalkinTarget

5th Mar 2005, 09:13 AM

I played Quake1 back in the day for 8 hour shifts on weekends, usually just on Saturdays. I ran into a guy ingame that had played 16 hours straight ... that game ... you just couldn't get away from it. Cains Lair regulars will remember those infamouse 3+ hour November maps in UT.

Its weird that this is your first epileptic fit after playing the game that often. Glad to hear you are OK tho .... thought you were gonna say you had the fit after successive monster kills .. lol
:wink:

??Kevin??

5th Mar 2005, 09:15 AM

...or I haven't fallen out of my chair :D

When my headphone cable [If im in the mood to wear them] gets caught, or I drop something, I will sometimes lean the chair to get it...and I fall every time :)

BurgerForLunsh

5th Mar 2005, 09:42 AM

There's a commercial on TV about the Direct TV Free Pass or something to see unlimited NBA games, and the guy watching TV in the commercial falls out of his chair and dies. Just like that. :shock:

??Kevin??

5th Mar 2005, 09:44 AM

yep, he dies in his kitchen, and he goes to heaven, and its his kitchen, and he is still watching NBA!

A_Spec

5th Mar 2005, 12:38 PM

Wow Res, that blows, According to me mum I play up to 5 - 6 hours with me noticing. Time means nothing to me.

Joaquin Dead

26th Sep 2005, 05:22 PM

FREAK/ HAHA. didn't want to disappoint you Res.

Blockhead

26th Sep 2005, 05:46 PM

Wow Res! So glad to hear you are OK man!

Well, you can be sure this is one topic that I will not bring to my wife's attention. She gets on me enough already about playing as much as I do, if she heard about this I would never be on!

Slaughter

26th Sep 2005, 06:49 PM

Not enough for my tastes unfortunately. 11-12 hour days at work these days and for the unforseeable future. Plus, being the old-fogey keyboard banging programmer/I.T. director/whatever else that I am at work, my wrists and hands can only take about an hour at one time.

Sad that it really started to bother me shortly after I bought my new rig. :(

{CLR}geneSW

26th Sep 2005, 11:38 PM

i'v been around games all my life almost, never had one, guess my time will come at some point. I use to paly for 6-8 housr a day every day before nexxus server went down in june and I got a job...

alpha

27th Sep 2005, 12:10 AM

how did a thread from march get pulled up :shock: ,

anyway my record is 72 hours strait with 4 bathroom breaks, it was UT99

so its been half a year, is everything still good res?

for me, regularly its about 1 hour blocks with 2 hours inbetween during the school year and 4 hour blocks with 1 hour breaks over the summer

Midnight Rider

27th Sep 2005, 02:28 AM

hahahahaahahahaha thats what you get for playing such a dumb gaym!

res1492

27th Sep 2005, 11:48 AM

how did a thread from march get pulled up :shock: ,

so its been half a year, is everything still good res?

I had forgotton about this...yes things r fine now i havent had another fit since................. :roll:

27th Sep 2005, 12:01 PM

Sorry to hear that res but I'm glad you are OK man!

My average is about 1-2 hours at a time with my longest being about 8 hours or so.

Make sure your Monitor refresh rate is as high as your monitor can handle. That 60 Hz flicker can do a lot of damage.