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Epilepsy/Seizure Caused Hallucinations?

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 14:58
I have been reading about the different types of seizures and epilepsy and am pretty sure I have temporal lobe epilepsy (my neuro won't put a name on it yet). I just have a question. I spent a week in a neuro unit going from being just confused to almost a complete vegetable before my neuro finally ran an eeg and started me on Keppra. I have read that people hallucinate during seizures, but it also says the seizures only last 30 sec to 2 min. I was in the hospital a week, but it felt like years due to the constant hallucinating. I had a constant feeling of wanting to "make things right" or explain to someone what was wrong with me, even though I didn't know. Unfortunately, in my hallucinations, everytime I would come close to "making things right," one of my six children would die in some awful way. It was like a constant nightmare. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? The hallucinations described here under different forms of seizures are exactly right, but they lasted way longer than 2 minutes... is that possible? I don't know what to think. I know that Keppra made them go away even though I was still confused for days later. I'm so afraid of this happening again. I'm mainly just wanting to know if anyone experienced seizures that caused long hallucinations like this. Thank you. :)

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Re: Epilepsy/Seizure Caused Hallucinations?

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2013-10-06 - 13:12
Thanks for joining us here! Good luck! Epi_help Resource Specialist

Hi

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2014-04-21 - 03:13
Hi I am an epileptic and have been for 21 years because they have not been able to find a cure for me and I suffer hallucinations latly I feeling like a pair of scissors when I have a fit and can't controll my body which is horrible but I have felt like a tape recorder and mostly had dejavo feelings of being in a place before thats usually when I know when I'm going into a fit but it's usually to late to tell anyone and I just go and do some weird thing but after years of it I think family friends and work are used too it and so am I.

Yes I had a seizure due to no

Submitted by Boobieloubee on Thu, 2017-11-30 - 11:02
Yes I had a seizure due to no sleep and then started to see worms and got very ill . Now it takes one or two nights of no sleep and I'm a mess.

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