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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.

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Submitted by Cradle Song on Fri, 2013-03-22 - 19:27

 

Hello Leon,

I'm glad that you're seeing a neurologist next week.  If you feel like sharing with us after your doc visit, please post your thoughts here.  The feelings of fear and anxiety are the worst, coloring our lives so profoundly.  I guess the silver lining is that our syndrome and associated symptoms can help us become more sensitive to the feelings of others.

Some days that isn't much consolation.  Take care.  :-)

Cradle Song

 

Hello Leon,

I'm glad that you're seeing a neurologist next week.  If you feel like sharing with us after your doc visit, please post your thoughts here.  The feelings of fear and anxiety are the worst, coloring our lives so profoundly.  I guess the silver lining is that our syndrome and associated symptoms can help us become more sensitive to the feelings of others.

Some days that isn't much consolation.  Take care.  :-)

Cradle Song

aura like marijuana?

Submitted by Shaggy_79 on Tue, 2013-04-23 - 19:30
I found Flashbakx (see above) description of an aura to be very interesting. I have read that many people have an aura that feels like an emotional response that may be fear, sadness, joy, etc. Mine feel like a shift in consciousness accompanied by slight happiness. I would describe it as a positive feeling of increased awareness and enjoyment of the world around me. However, then comes the seizure with headache unpleasant dizziness etc., but hey it was fun while it lasted :)

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Submitted by Graham on Tue, 2007-06-19 - 10:57
graham Hi there. I had encephalitis early last year and as a result I now have epilepsy. I've had a couple of seizures. My last full blown seizure was in March of last year but I've had alotof auras since. In fact my last aura was yesterday morning. My auras scare the life out of me. They just burst onto me like a really strong deja vu. I start to feel really dizzy and I get the weirdest thoughts of some ridiculous memory, that I can't understand why I should be remembering it. It could be a song, a talk with someone from years ago, or other things that I have no reason to remember. I can't talk properly while this happens and I have to try and talk myself out of it. I try to breath in through my nose and fight it as hard as I can. 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. The after effect for me is tiredness and I just feel depressed and down because it's so hard not knowing when the next one will happen.

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