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Extreme Emotional Response seizure?

Thu, 11/18/2010 - 14:59

Topic: My Epilepsy Diary

I have Grand Mal Epilepsy. I take my medications regularly and haven't had a seizure in over two years. My seizures are pretty typical, except when I've had Petit Mal seizures, which has happened only once. I was in my bedroom with my husband and all I could do was smile at him, unable to speak. I didn't convulse or hit my head, and I was pretty aware of what was going on and where I was. Even when a paramedic came over, I was clear enough to indicate that I did not want to go to the hospital and signed a form.

I had a very scary episode last night. I was lying in bed and started to feel like my face was vibrating and I felt like I was out of my body. It seemed to me to be the onset of a seizure, so I just stayed put. I started to get really anxious, after which I hallucinated of what seemed to me to be my dead mother, who died just over a month ago. It's as though she just flew in like a ghost, but solid and vividly colored, then disappeared. I started to feel panicky, my heart racing, and then suddenly, I was uncontrollably sobbing. I was extremely frightened and started to shake all over from cold, even though it was warm in the room. I was so scared that I was going to have a seizure because the aura was so powerful. My husband came in and stayed with me until I started to relax, about ten or so minutes later. After I had calmed down, I thought it had been much longer than it was. I never lost consciousness and I didn't convulse.

I've been looking all around the net to find out if it was a seizure that I had last night. Has anyone ever heard of having emotional seizures like this or experienced it themselves?

Comments

Re: Extreme Emotional Response seizure?

Submitted by LuckyBabe23 on Fri, 2010-11-19 - 19:23

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Re: Extreme Emotional Response seizure?

Submitted by csaka on Tue, 2010-11-30 - 23:29

Might it have been an extremely spiritual experience... which by all means would have been scary? I often wonder if our seizures are in some form a medical jargon for something as simple as the spirit meeting the flesh, or the visible, tangible world intersecting with the other. If your mother had just passed (sorry for this, btw), it is likely that she was visiting you in one form or another, and that you, but not your husband, were able to experience this.. emotionally and physically. Pretty powerful stuff!

Re: Extreme Emotional Response seizure?

Submitted by manwithepilepsy on Wed, 2010-12-01 - 05:58

What you experinced is a common condition called arterial acidosis. Panick attack. Due to breathing in more than you exhale, carbon monoxide builds in you blood. When you feel this start, focus on your breathing, long deliberate breaths, normal rate, being sure to breath out more than you breath in. With in seconds the feeling of a energy wave spreading though your body will begin to sub side. The hallucinations, and everything you described will happen every time your breathing in more than you exhale. I have experinced it hundreds of times in the past 29 years with epilepsy. I don't always recognize the syptoms in time, my seizures trigger the panick attacks, not fear of having one. I can be sitting talking to someone and bam. Kinda embarrasing at times. Look up an study all you can find about arterial acidosis and it want be so terrifying.

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