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Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!
Fri, 04/13/2007 - 16:21Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
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
Comments
Yes, but you need something
Submitted by asklilihgjufri@mail.com on Sat, 2019-08-17 - 13:32
Yes, but you need something called a dream journal. After these happen write down all of your experience. Including the part that you aren't telling us in this story. Don't ask me how I know you left it out, because I won't say on here either. There are many people who try to reach this state on purpose, and you go there by natural ability. The cotton is due to the extra blood flow to your brain that is fueling this ability. The sweating and exhaustion is because it takes a lot on energy use and heart work to make this happen. Your doctor isn't going to find anything wrong, although it won't help to check. Just make SURE they don't try and convince you that it's psychological. If they do, RUN! Then make sure not to take any meds they try to give you, but only if they try to tell you it's psychogenic.
Re: Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!
Submitted by Grace_Oliver on Sat, 2010-11-27 - 23:50
I just joined about 15 minutes ago and read your story. I too get that tingly sensation, mine radiates from the back of my head and shoots almost all the way to my forehead and that's how I know I'm going to have a seizure. I've had seizures that only seem to happen in certain areas of my body, but mostly, my whole body seizes and convulses. I have had my seizures for about 8 years, well, that's when I began to realize what they were. I feel your fear and anxiety about this issue and it really hits home with me. I had one person tell me to accept those moments that feel like premonitions as "moments of clarity." I would rather just... not have these episodes. You are not alone, I know that fear you feel very well.
ps i seem to get it every
Submitted by astrial on Mon, 2018-07-02 - 01:19
ps i seem to get it every time i go grocery shopping i avoid it as long as possiple as i usally end up in the er before im done.