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How exactly do aura's feel

Mon, 05/15/2006 - 11:30
How exactly do aura's feel? Can you have aura's and not have an actual seizure? I think I had some this weekend. I went off into like a "spacy" feeling. Like I was tingling and I couldn't make myself snap out of it for a few seconds. I have had a headache since I has these feelings. I have had E a long time, but I am new to all the terminology and so forth. Thanks.

Comments

Auras

Submitted by ammer101 on Wed, 2011-04-27 - 23:32
I liked your reply to the subject of Aura's, especially the part about spending money!!!!

Re: Auras

Submitted by techgeek on Wed, 2011-04-27 - 18:32

Last month I had  my first seizure, I have no memory of about a 12 hour period what people have told me is all I know of it As I did not return to conciousness for that long. So what they tell me is that I was watching t.v. and stood up went completely rigid and fell over.this lasted for about 7 minutes before my family called 911 I did not breath for over 5 minutes , they say that I relaxed and started breathing after the paramedics arrived.the first thing i remember is waking up in a hospital bed covered with wires an i.v. and an oxygen tube in my nose. the neurologist at the hospital said that I had a complex partial seizure. this is kind of a long way around to describe what I now know were auras . I started having these events where My head would have a pulsing sensation then I would start hearing sounds like they were like in a dream .The last ones before my big event began to be increasingly frightening and I would get into bed with a feeling that something bad was coming to the room these were lasting 5 to 10 minutes or more.  Since then I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea and am also on lamictol. I have also had the deja-vu thing since I was probably about 13-14 years of age never thought much of it till now. i now have periods where I cannot finish a sentance correctly iknow the word I want to say but a different word comes out of my mouth along with a confused feeling. the ct scan came out normal but ahowed some kind of irritation as did the mri. or maybe it was the ct scan. EEg showed normal too. The thing that bothers me the most is not being able to drive, getting to work is a real pain!


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Last month I had  my first seizure, I have no memory of about a 12 hour period what people have told me is all I know of it As I did not return to conciousness for that long. So what they tell me is that I was watching t.v. and stood up went completely rigid and fell over.this lasted for about 7 minutes before my family called 911 I did not breath for over 5 minutes , they say that I relaxed and started breathing after the paramedics arrived.the first thing i remember is waking up in a hospital bed covered with wires an i.v. and an oxygen tube in my nose. the neurologist at the hospital said that I had a complex partial seizure. this is kind of a long way around to describe what I now know were auras . I started having these events where My head would have a pulsing sensation then I would start hearing sounds like they were like in a dream .The last ones before my big event began to be increasingly frightening and I would get into bed with a feeling that something bad was coming to the room these were lasting 5 to 10 minutes or more.  Since then I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea and am also on lamictol. I have also had the deja-vu thing since I was probably about 13-14 years of age never thought much of it till now. i now have periods where I cannot finish a sentance correctly iknow the word I want to say but a different word comes out of my mouth along with a confused feeling. the ct scan came out normal but ahowed some kind of irritation as did the mri. or maybe it was the ct scan. EEg showed normal too. The thing that bothers me the most is not being able to drive, getting to work is a real pain!


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Re: how do aura's feel

Submitted by Kinamod on Tue, 2009-04-21 - 07:42
I read your and Im exactly the same. (almost) the" I use this analogy... It's like a big black hole appears beside me and if I look into the black hole and try to see what's in there I'll fall in. If I fall in a seizure will kick in." I get like a hole in my vision, and when I look at it, its like falling into it, and I'm there... Ill have full blow conversations with the people I'm imagining. Not sure oif tehy're memories, but ill be talking to them, and it'll be like I'm in 5 of these at once, and Im just in different situations. Like part of my mind, is talkin, the other is swimming, and the other is on the bus to uni... Its mad. I hate explaining it to people, looking at you like you're a nutter... If im honest, I love the feeling, its REALLY nice for me, but I dnt like it, cuz i KNOW a seizure will follow. Thats the the only downside. Besides that, its a great feeling. I always, lay down, and try to control my breathing to try and fend it off. Thats worked like once...

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