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How exactly do aura's feel
Mon, 05/15/2006 - 11:30Comments
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Submitted by OwlsWisdom on Wed, 2012-10-17 - 00:49
I don't really understand the term aura in relation to seizures. The way I know I'm about to have one is I start to feel really weird. Like the pressure around my head is getting greater. Then it becomes really difficult for my to keep my eyes from rolling back. I always get really scared because I feel like if I let me eyes roll back it's over. The seizures won. But if I can keep looking forward I won't have a full blown seizure. But I feel like gravity has doubled and like someone is tugging at my eye balls from the back of my head.
Is "aura" just what indicates when a seizure is about to happen?
I don't really understand the term aura in relation to seizures. The way I know I'm about to have one is I start to feel really weird. Like the pressure around my head is getting greater. Then it becomes really difficult for my to keep my eyes from rolling back. I always get really scared because I feel like if I let me eyes roll back it's over. The seizures won. But if I can keep looking forward I won't have a full blown seizure. But I feel like gravity has doubled and like someone is tugging at my eye balls from the back of my head.
Is "aura" just what indicates when a seizure is about to happen?
Re: aura's
Submitted by hannahleek on Wed, 2010-03-24 - 13:39
I have had seizures for 22 years as of march 28th of 2010.
So I believe you are asking what an aura feels like and if it is/or leads to a seizure.
My auras felt like this....I start to get a weird feeling in my tummy, like butterflies and then it starts to feel like a bubble of energy is coming over you. When I used to have complex partial seizures when I was a kid, my seizures always started with that and went into a complex partial or petit mal or absance. I don't have those kinds anymore because I had brain surgery when I was 12 where they removed most of my right hipocampus and temporal lobe:-) Now I have simple partial ones.
Anyways, to get back to the subject. I have learned how to prevent myself from getting a seizure if I start to feel an aura. If I am doing something such as sitting down in a book store and reading a magaine and I start to feel like I might have a seizure/aura, I would, for instance close the magazine and move away my coffee and just get out of my seat like I am going to go look for another magazine of a different subject. I do something completely opposite of what I am currently doing to not allow my body to continue to feel like I'm going to have a seizure. If you stay in the moment where you are getting the aura, you may be more likely to have a seizure. So next time you feel an aura and you are at home watching TV, change the chanel...get up for a glass of water. Do something to take your mind off of the feeling. See how that works over time. Hope that helps! :-) Oh, by the way, since I started doing that it always stops me from having one if I get the aura.
I have had seizures for 22 years as of march 28th of 2010.
So I believe you are asking what an aura feels like and if it is/or leads to a seizure.
My auras felt like this....I start to get a weird feeling in my tummy, like butterflies and then it starts to feel like a bubble of energy is coming over you. When I used to have complex partial seizures when I was a kid, my seizures always started with that and went into a complex partial or petit mal or absance. I don't have those kinds anymore because I had brain surgery when I was 12 where they removed most of my right hipocampus and temporal lobe:-) Now I have simple partial ones.
Anyways, to get back to the subject. I have learned how to prevent myself from getting a seizure if I start to feel an aura. If I am doing something such as sitting down in a book store and reading a magaine and I start to feel like I might have a seizure/aura, I would, for instance close the magazine and move away my coffee and just get out of my seat like I am going to go look for another magazine of a different subject. I do something completely opposite of what I am currently doing to not allow my body to continue to feel like I'm going to have a seizure. If you stay in the moment where you are getting the aura, you may be more likely to have a seizure. So next time you feel an aura and you are at home watching TV, change the chanel...get up for a glass of water. Do something to take your mind off of the feeling. See how that works over time. Hope that helps! :-) Oh, by the way, since I started doing that it always stops me from having one if I get the aura.