Sanya Malhotra<\/a> was there and our trainer Kripa Shankar Bishnoi was there. They quickly Googled it and kept me aside,\u201d Fatima recalled. \u201cEventually, the production decided they had to figure out what this was because a lot was riding on me and the film.\u201d <\/p>\nFatima Sana Shaikh on Facing Harassment: ‘You Only Have to Be a Girl for It\u2026’<\/p>\n
\u2018The medication made me feel like I was under the influence\u2019<\/p>\n
Following the incident, Fatima was taken to a neurologist and underwent multiple tests.\u201cThey did MRIs, EEG, everything. The doctor put me on medication,\u201d she said. However, the treatment initially had severe side effects.\u201cIt felt like I was under the influence. I couldn\u2019t walk straight, everything felt wonky. I was feeling very depressive and angry all the time. I felt very alienated,\u201d Fatima shared.The actor eventually stopped taking the medication without informing anyone because she found it difficult to continue working.\u201cI had to wrestle and function, so I stopped taking it. But whenever I would get an aura, I would go to the bathroom, lock myself inside, lie on my side and hope it would pass and nobody would find out,\u201d she said. Fatima revealed that this struggle continued for several years before things stabilised. \u201cIt went on for a good four years,\u201d she added.On the work front, Fatima is reportedly set to star in the courtroom drama series Nyaya, directed by Karan Kapadia and Nitya Mehra, which is also rumoured to feature Aneet Padda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fatima Sana Shaikh has often spoken about living with epilepsy, hoping that sharing her experiences will help create…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[10111,176025,39553,176024,18,117,137361,176026,176023,176028,176027,19,17,327,15823],"class_list":["post-384378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-aamir-khan","tag-aamir-khan-sanya-malhotra-support","tag-dangal","tag-dangal-shoot-seizure-incident","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-fatima-sana-shaikh","tag-fatima-sana-shaikh-auras-seizure","tag-fatima-sana-shaikh-epilepsy","tag-fatima-sana-shaikh-illness","tag-fatima-sana-shaikh-medication-side-effects","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-sanya-malhotra"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116226073940904640","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Fatima Sana Shaikh has often spoken about living with epilepsy, hoping that sharing her experiences will help create awareness around the neurological condition. In a recent conversation with Soha Ali Khan on her podcast, the actor opened up about the first time she experienced a seizure and how she was eventually diagnosed while shooting for Dangal. Fatima Sana Shaikh has often spoken about living with epilepsy, hoping that sharing her experiences will help create awareness around the neurological condition. In a recent conversation with Soha Ali Khan on her podcast, the actress opened up about the first time she experienced a seizure and how she was eventually diagnosed while shooting for Dangal.Recalling her earliest memory of a seizure, Fatima admitted that she remembers very little about the episode itself.\u201cI have no memory. I just remember feeling a lot of fear and passing out and ending up in the hospital,\u201d she said. The actor shared that one of the incidents happened while she was attending a dance class. <\/p>\n