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seeing flashes of light
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 18:56Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
Has anyone experienced seeing flashes of light? They lasted a few seconds then kept coming back off and on for a couple of hours. I let my Dr. know about this and he wants another eeg done (my third one). I have simple partial seizures. If this has happened what kind of seizures do you have?
Re: seeing flashes of light
Submitted by tonialpha on Mon, 2008-09-29 - 19:51
It starts throbing in one quadrant of vision and then grows into all my vision and I get nauseated and I want to throw up. I then have a partial-complex seizure and am out for most of the day after that sometimes I end up in the hospital because I have another one. My husband says I have status since I have had children. It doesn't happen very often. I have had surgery twice. My seizure focus is near my speech center and my visual center in the occipital lobe. Each patient has a different focus. My focus makes me sick to my stomach and if you have had anatomy and physiology. My flashes look like mitochondria. I also took microbiology too. The flashes probably last looking at an EEG about 20 to 40 sec. put being a patient it seems for ever! I hope that helps.
It starts throbing in one quadrant of vision and then grows into all my vision and I get nauseated and I want to throw up. I then have a partial-complex seizure and am out for most of the day after that sometimes I end up in the hospital because I have another one. My husband says I have status since I have had children. It doesn't happen very often. I have had surgery twice. My seizure focus is near my speech center and my visual center in the occipital lobe. Each patient has a different focus. My focus makes me sick to my stomach and if you have had anatomy and physiology. My flashes look like mitochondria. I also took microbiology too. The flashes probably last looking at an EEG about 20 to 40 sec. put being a patient it seems for ever! I hope that helps.