Real Betis midfielder Isco opens up about his epileptic seizure ordeal

He explained, "I had never experienced pain like that before. It was a particularly intense episode. I ended up staying in the hospital for four days while they conducted numerous tests. I struggled to recall certain moments from that day. There are gaps in my memory from my time in the hospital."

The aftermath of that event is still felt years later.

"I was evaluated for the electrical activity of nerve cells that are located in the cerebral cortex, one of the main studies to diagnose epilepsy. Since then I have not suffered any episode like this again. Here I continue, with a pill at night for four years.

Isco added, "People who have these episodes know that it is normal, that it heals and that it is treated and that you have to give visibility to this type of thing."