If you call before 5 minutes and the seizure stops, there's little a paramedic would be able to do. It's worth waiting to see if treatment is necessary. As each person's seizures are so different, paramedics often don't have as much knowledge about epilepsy as you'd think
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It's unlikely that a member of public would step the ambulance down once they've called them, just to be safe.
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It always best to take the lead from the person, as they know their seizures. If that's not possible, time the seizure and call 999 after 5 minutes.
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If you didn't, there may be people who did so I'd ask around. If not, start from when you first witnessed it and explain that you only saw the last 5 minutes
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You can only deal with what you know. It may have only just started or it may have been ongoing for a while, all you can do is explain on the phone that you've timed it and it's been 5 minutes.
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The advice from the NHS, the Epilepsy Society, and the people in this thread with epilepsy is of course to be ignored, only Jonathan knows best (and thinks you can cancel ambulances)
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