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When are hallucinations actually seizures?
Sun, 07/26/2009 - 11:49I visited my neurologist last Friday and told him about these small flashes of light that have been occurring in my eye since I have been diagnosed with Epilepsy, which has been about 25 years now. He told me "They might be seizures." However, he didn't tell me anything else. Does anybody else have this problem and would anybody else know more about it? It usually happens before I have a big tonic-clonic seizure, so I take it as a sign that I have to lie down. What about everyone else? Or am I crazy?
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Re: When are hallucinations actually seizures?
Submitted by lornaj.1901 on Sun, 2013-09-15 - 12:50
When I have a seizure I usually "white out" like have flashes of white light come across my eyes, and this happens before I have a migraine as well, so it's really scary, but if you're having hallucinations afterwards you might be having simple partial seizures as well as your tonic clonic seizures. It's pretty terrifying, because you don't really recognize that as a seizure but it is. So talk to your doc some more about it. Maybe you're having simple partial seizures.
Lorna Jane
Re: When are hallucinations actually seizures?
Submitted by tcameron on Sat, 2013-09-14 - 17:32
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