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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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Hi!  I am a 36 yo female that

Submitted by alittlefoggy on Fri, 2018-07-27 - 15:50
Hi!  I am a 36 yo female that has experienced psychic simple partial seizures since my early teens.  I remember the seizures in the earlier years were isolated and caused very little stress. Between the ages of 16 to my early twenties, I do not recall any episodes.  In fact, I began to believe I imagined the "crazy deja vus" of my early teens.  Shortly after my pregnancy at 24, the seizures returned and began to cycle.  I would go a few months without an episode only to have them return in three to four day cycles.  I would have a few the initial day and the lingering feeling would begin.  Day two and three would bring at least twenty to twenty five seizures, cycling on the hour.  On Day 4, the seizures would seem to taper off.  During these cycles, I do not feel like "myself".  I have been seizure cycle free for almost six months with just the lightest of seizures occurring maybe two or three times.  Four days ago, they returned and I am presently cycling.  I feel so odd.  When they hit, I can maintain composure.  If you were not aware of the seizure, you would think I just spaced out for a moment. I do not believe I experience any olfactory sensations, but my gut feels as if I am on the quick descent of a roller coaster.  I feel like I am missing something that is vital to my life and cannot process the information.  And then it is gone.  There is nothing but that odd tingling that remains until the next episode.  In fact, it is that constant sense of uneasiness that lets me know that I am still in a cycle.  I am not concerned about any neurological disorder or condition.  I wanted to share my experience because, after years of finding solace while reading message boards during cycles, I felt like I should be part of someone else's relief.  Thanks to all of you for sharing!  

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

Submitted by peterochs on Tue, 2010-12-07 - 21:23
I'm pretty sure I know generally that of which you speak. I was diagnosed full-on tonic-clonic ("grand mal") about nearly two years ago now. at times I have feelings maybe similar to what you're toning about, without going full tonic-clonic. frankly, im beginning to wonder if being "psychic" isn't a form of epilepsy, and vice versa. it's my understanding a tonic-clonic seizure is like ones own brain giving itself electroshock. when electroshock is administered, an electron is surfed it's way into your brain via technological devices, and hits a spot, to control aspects of the brain function when the brain does it to itself, the same process takes place, but sometimes I have the feeling like it's an aspect of my brain changing some aspect of the world, or the universe I have been recovering the past couple days from a major tonic-clonic event, and in the "hangover" phase of these I can't help but shake the feeling that something "changed" (remember in The Matrix when "Neo" saw the cat twice "oh huh Deja vu..."") one thing that is irrefutable- electrical circuits have to come to some sort of resolution entropy laws don't support a build-up of electromagnetic potential differentiation between media (between bimetals ala alkaline battery, betw saline media (body/air)... it simply does not happen according to Newton's laws something HAS to have changed on the electromagnetic level the medical community has clearly measured these electromagnetic charges during seizures- that's what MRIs -do-: the magnetic properties of materials change when put under electric charge- as a matter of fact I'm pretty sure that's what welding is yea this epilepsy s**t is weird- I try to temper the fact that, for example, I remember about 15-20 seconds of this past Friday, but I know it involved 911 and being at the hospital until about 2am Saturday, temper it with the fact that I electroshocked the universe into change. there's an ion floating around out there somewhere that I made, which is affecting the universe at this moment that is fact as far as my understanding of the laws of thermodynamics go either that or I'm "out there" somewhere myself still a bit post-ictal but it's perhaps more of the prior than science may want to admit, erstwhile I'm more than willing to cop to the latter- which might make it less true on that basis entirely ok- hang in there!

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