Fatima opens up about terrifying epilepsy episode

Fatima Sana Shaikh, who is gearing up for the merchandise of her upcoming films Metro... In Dino and Aap Jaisa Koi, has spoken candidly astir her conflict with epilepsy. In a moving speech with Humans of Bombay, she recalled a terrifying occurrence portion flying to the USA via Dubai.

She revealed that she had a large seizure onslaught mid-air.“I got seizures connected the flight… I was taken to the airdrome hospitals... but past besides my seizures weren’t stopping,” she said, adding that doctors yet had to administer a precise precocious dose of medicine to bring the concern nether control.‘I was truthful drugged out’: Multiple medications near her immobileFatima recounted however the exigency attraction progressive a cocktail of beardown drugs, which caused further complications.

She explained that switching medications abruptly tin beryllium risky for epilepsy patients. “They gave maine a definite chemic and I was already connected a antithetic chemical... successful epilepsy you person to wean disconnected 1 earlier taking another,” she said, describing the aftermath arsenic feeling wholly sedated and incapable to function.The interaction of the occurrence wasn’t constricted to her health. Fatima had to measurement distant from 2 large movie projects astatine the clip — Meghna Gulzar’s Sam Bahadur and Dhak Dhak.

“I had to cancel shoot... 1 of the feline called maine and asked maine if I tin sprout and I started crying,” she recalled, emotionally describing her inability to adjacent get retired of bed.

Coming to presumption with the diagnosis: ‘This is my world now’The incidental became a turning constituent successful her life. Fatima reflected connected the affectional upheaval that followed and the acceptance that came with it. “I couldn’t get retired of the bed... my emotions were each implicit the place...

at that clip I accepted that this is my disease,” she shared. She besides believed that being unfastened astir it could assistance others facing akin challenges.Fatima credits enactment systems and honorable conversations for helping her stabilize. “I got assistance from conversations and enactment groups, and present I americium precise overmuch stable,” she said, happily noting that she hasn’t experienced different occurrence successful a while.The histrion volition adjacent beryllium seen alongside R Madhavan successful Aap Jaisa Koi.