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Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!

Fri, 04/13/2007 - 16:21
Hi everyone! I am a 30 y/o woman who has been experiencing "episodes" for 13-14 years. I had two this week, which were severe enough to scare me. I just finally went to see my doc today, who feels they could very well be seizures and is sending me to a neuro for evaluation. She is sending me for an MRI and EEG so that I can go to the neuro with them in hand... These episodes generally happen randomly, but I've noticed that some pop up right when I'm drifting off to sleep. Why I've never thought there is something physically wrong with me until now, is beyond me. They start with a feeling of dread that something bad is going to happen, and I feel this throughout my entire body. Then, I enter a state of what I can only describe as being between dreaming and being awake. I'm conscious, but I feel entranced. It is during this state that I experience intense feelings of deja vu, dread, fear and I feel like I'm having premonitions of the future (I swear, I'm not crazy). Afterwards, my head tingles all over, I feel disoriented and confused, I begin sweating all over and I feel as though someone has stuffed my head full of cotton. At this point, the episode ends, but I'm left with the cotton brain feeling for several hours and I feel as though I've run a marathon and all I want to do is sleep. I used to tell my mom when I was younger that I was experiencing these symptoms and she told me that I was having premonitions. LOL. Maybe that's why I never bothered to talk to a doc about it? However, the episodes I had this past Tuesday and Wednesday were so intense, my husband swore I was having seizures. He ran over to me and said that I looked like I wasn't there, that I was staring off into space and then I had this look of intense fear on my face. He also said that he doesn't know why he didn't think of this before, as he's watched me have dozens of them... Is there anyone here that has experienced a similar thing???? I'm terrified. Thanks so much in advance for you replies! -Kat

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Re: Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!

Submitted by stephenwatershed on Sat, 2011-06-11 - 23:22
I have these too, precisely as you have described them - I think some of the comments above are slightly off the mark. I know that string of unrelated word syndrome. The deja vu I get is incredibly strong. Thanks to the listen again facilities on the radio I have occasionally replayed what was on air as I was having a 'mad fit' (as I have called them since I was a boy) - what was on the radio was actually completely new - but It is almost impossible to believe. I'd like to know more about what brings it on. Usually anxiety I think. I've had them since I was a kid - they don't bother me any more - what strange brains we have - all the best.

Re: Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!

Submitted by Pit player on Sat, 2007-04-21 - 10:10
it's interesting that you mention a psychic connection, I never realy entertained that idea much but on occasion, I have also felt a deja-vu that would last only a second or two, but never around a s. but then I have them at night while I sleep, and never have any memory of them. but i could just be minding my own business going about my daily routine when FLASH (SNAP)I realize a deja-vu that is quite powerfull, then it is gone, and I think what was that! I think it's a trick out mind plays on our preceptions of our suroundings. and we think we've been here before, but in fact we have not. it's a real time (first time) experience. Pit Player

Re: Re: Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!

Submitted by Katvwolf on Fri, 2007-04-27 - 17:05
Thanks, Pit Player! I too, think it's a trick our mind plays on our perception of our surroundings. A brain glitch, so to speak. It isn't surprising, when you think about it. The brain is kind of like a motherboard in a computer, so everything may not perform perfectly 100 percent of the time, right? I think of seeing the neuro as seeing a computer tech. LOL. :) It is kind of comforting to finally have a scientific explanation. I just wish I didn't have such terrible fear when I'm having a seizure. I can't even control it. Whatever is causing the seizure actually causes overwhelming fear on top of the psychic and physical symptoms. That is the worst part.

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