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Simple Partial Seizures and EEG/EKG

Sun, 01/09/2005 - 16:08

I have not been diagnosed, but I am beginning to supiscion that I have been having Simple Partial Seizures.  Please bear with me, it might take a little while to describe my experiences and my questions....

Every so often (perhaps once every 2 months and more frequently at times) I have been experiencing what I have seen other people on this site describe as strong, scary deja vu feelings.  It feels like deja vu, but much stronger.  It feels like I know what is going to happen next or I have dreamed that moment in time before.  Sometimes this feeling is so strong that I almost wonder if I am losing my mind - or if I'm just now seeing the world with a rare moment of clarity.  It is like I am seeing the world with new eyes for just a few seconds.  This is accompanied by what feels like a frightening adrenaline rush.  I'm not sure if this rush is a response to the deja vu/psychic feeling frightening me or if it just part of the experience itself.

A few months ago I was sitting on the floor in a very emotional state and I had one of these "episodes".  (I wish I had a name for them!)  But this time, the next thing I knew it was about 15 minutes later and I had no recollection of what had happened since the episode.  I felt a bit nauseus with a headache and my tongue was bitten and quite swollen.  This has never happened before.

I went to the doctor and I had an EEG and EKG/ECG taken.  It while I was waiting in the neurologist office that I saw for the first time a poster describing a "psychc simple partial seizure".  This was the first time that I had ever heard of something that may have explained the "episodes" I have.

My physician called me after breifly reviewing the EEG results and said, "It looks like you didn't have a seizure in the EEG, so you must have just stood up too fast and passed out." 

I think that perhaps when I lost conciousness I may have experienced a Psychic Simple Partial Seizure (one of those "episodes") that lead to a Complex Partial Seizure (the part I don't remember) which was triggered because I was in such an emotional state.   Is it possible that these deja vu "episodes" are Simple Partial Seizures that would not have been detectable by an EEG?  Is it possible that if I did have a Complex Partial Seizure that didn't show up on an EEG?  I don't understand what exactly an EEG can determine.

~Erica
Age 24

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RE: Simple Partial Seizures and EEG/EKG

Submitted by crismoss on Fri, 2005-04-15 - 03:48
Thank you every one. Im the one who wrote "32, now having sleeping seizures...no health insurance.."After reading responses, I think this has been happening to me for a long time. The "deja-vue / what was that!!" Ive been having those for years. At first they scared me, but in the past year I've become more facinated with them. But now, Ive had two major episodes in the past two months. Like no other in my past. What triggered the increase? My lifestyle hasn't changed.And once again thank you everyone. I need the insite.

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