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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 32 year old female

Submitted by echadwick1985@gmail.com on Sat, 2018-01-27 - 16:18
hi, i am a 32 year old female and i have just started having these within the last six months or so. Small everyday things (for example folding clothes) will trigger an abstract memory of a dream i have had either the night before or sometime within the last few weeks. It is a feeling of dread and terror, i have a feeling of extreme heat wash over me and tingling sensation on the back of my head. Afterwards i am so scared i cry, and continue to feel odd for hours, sometimes days afterwards. Basically almost everything i do reminds me of some dream i have had, and before it didn't bother me but now i am having trouble with it. It is interfering with my reality and it is starting to take over how i act on a daily basis. Also i do find it odd that i will suddenly see, hear, or experience something i had been dreaming about. It would be so wonderful to talk to people that understand what i am going through. My fiance is very nice about it, but i get the feeling he feels like i may be a little unhinged. I have had epilepsy since i was 7 and i have had many different types of seizures my whole life. But these are the scariest. They are like being trapped in a nightmare and even though they only last less than a minute they are still terrifying. i cant even bring myself to speak when i am having one. if anyone else here has had similar experiences and feels alone, as i do. please feel free to message me or reply. 

I see a lot of people have

Submitted by shinu2007 on Wed, 2019-12-25 - 07:40
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Re: Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!

Submitted by AshleyNicole94 on Mon, 2010-02-22 - 11:41

Hello there.

I am experiencing nearly the samething, and I am 15 years of age. Before, it was only once in a few months kind of thing, but it began to become more recent, and now I am fighting it multiple times a day. What I have figured out is that I will dream when I sleep, but I dream of the upcoming 'future', approximatly a week or so, and once It happens and I see it again in reality (deja vu), my mind goes back to 'dream mode' such as a blurred vision almost, feeling like im not really there, severe nausea, I lose balance and head straight to the ground, very light headed, but also, there may be people there in my dream, but those people that were.. arent there in reality like when it hits me, but as im 'seizuring', I can hear the voices and things that were said in my dream. This only goes on for about a minute or so, then once it passes, I am very very exhausted. And as I said, I am now fighting it multiple times a day. I have already seen my neurologist, already had my MRI scan, they said it showed no abnormalities or anything, so I am now waiting for my EEG to come along in March.

- Ashley

Hello there.

I am experiencing nearly the samething, and I am 15 years of age. Before, it was only once in a few months kind of thing, but it began to become more recent, and now I am fighting it multiple times a day. What I have figured out is that I will dream when I sleep, but I dream of the upcoming 'future', approximatly a week or so, and once It happens and I see it again in reality (deja vu), my mind goes back to 'dream mode' such as a blurred vision almost, feeling like im not really there, severe nausea, I lose balance and head straight to the ground, very light headed, but also, there may be people there in my dream, but those people that were.. arent there in reality like when it hits me, but as im 'seizuring', I can hear the voices and things that were said in my dream. This only goes on for about a minute or so, then once it passes, I am very very exhausted. And as I said, I am now fighting it multiple times a day. I have already seen my neurologist, already had my MRI scan, they said it showed no abnormalities or anything, so I am now waiting for my EEG to come along in March.

- Ashley

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