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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 lisamarietu on Sun, 2007-04-15 - 18:15
Hi Kat, I am affraid i dont have any answers for you or even any idea myself as to what this is we are experiencing but i do want to share my experience with you and let you take from it what you will. I am 23 yrs old with a 2yr old daughter and i am 7 weeks pregnant at the moment with my second child. I have also not long since past my driving test so i am very eager to hurry and find out what is happening to me too, not only for my safety but for my familys safety and other road users too. I have been having what i call 'DEJA VUS' for as long as i can remember, i think it started while i was in middle school or near then. Sometimes i have many in one week, once i even had one after the other, sometimes i can go weeks or months without having any. I have always been concerned as to what it is but have never been serious at finding out UNTILL NOW. I am going to my doctors in the morning. My deja vus have always happened while i have been awake, however last night i was woken from my sleep having the worst one i have ever experienced. I have'nt had one for quite a few months and so i had put it to the back of my mind. Mostly because my husband always says maybe im just having a deja vu and because i am panicking about it i experience what i do. Now i know that definately cannot be the case so it is time to get to the bottom of it. I can only really describe my experiences to the best i can so i hope it makes sense. It starts off as a deja vu, a sense that i have heard what i am hearing before, been where i am and felt how i have felt. I cant describe that part any more than that because as it is happening i am also forgetting it and what ever the deja vu was i can never remember it afterwards. After the deja vu i feel faint, dizzy and confused. I cannot seem to make sense of ANYTHING. My heart is beating furiously and my blood is pumping in my head like it is about to explode. I am not quite sure how long this feeling lasts but it feels like about 10 minutes or so. Afterwards i cannot remember anything about the deja vu other than knowing i had one and the way it made me feel. Also i have a very bad headache that varies with each deja vu but the one i had last night has given me a headache for 24 hrs now. After it happens i feel so drained, i can start a sentance talking to my huband and half way through the sentence i have already forgotten what i was saying, i cannot even string a sentence together. Once i have told my husband i have had one and told him to keep his eye on me ( as i am scared something might happen to me ) i go to sleep, i dont think i could keep myself awake if i tried, it totally drains me. I ended up having 12 hrs sleep last night which is double what i usually have and i have still been very tired all day, with on/off headache. I am not sure how or even if, my experience will help you in any way but i just want you to know that what ever this is you are not alone and at least if you find out what it is you can deal with it appropriately. I wish you all the best, and i just want to thank you for sharing your experience and helping me have a better understanding of what is happening to me. Lisa

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

Submitted by cloisssXD on Mon, 2011-10-03 - 16:04
Lisa, I am 19 yrs old. Since this has been happening to me (about 8 years) Ive been looking all over the internet to find someone who has the same thing. Never found anything until now. You explained it exactly how it happens to me. Exactly. Even how it won't happen for weeks, months, days and then out of no where it will start to happen again. I even forget what Im saying. I sometimes throw up from it. Completely blank out. I usually say out loud it feels like Im in dream because I know this place. I just can't believe this happens to you also. -Chloe

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

Submitted by Katvwolf on Sun, 2007-04-15 - 19:55
Lisa, Thank you so much for sharing your experience with me! Our experiences are so similar, it is reassuring to know that I'm not alone. I'm almost embarrassed that it has taken me so long to address this. Now that I'm realizing that there is something physically wrong with me, I feel so stupid for not having seen it earlier! Because I didn't know what I was experiencing and I thought it was something psychic, I obviously didn't share it with many people. I told one of my girlfriends last night that I might be having seizures and she was like, "Duh!!!!" LOL. Even she saw it. My hubby is upset that it took him so long to see this, too. Do you ever get feelings of fear or impending doom? That is the worst part of this for me. I feel like something awful is going to happen-like pure, cold fear going through my entire body. The deja vu part is difficult for me to describe, too, as I forget it as quickly as it happens. Have you ever tried writing what is happening down when you are experiencing the deja vu? I did and it was in poor handwriting and I ended up with a string of unrelated words. Good luck with your doc appt. tomorrow. Let me know what he/she says. Congrats on your pregnancy!!! There is some good news even when you're having a tough time!!!! Kat

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