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eye problems/seizures?

Tue, 06/14/2005 - 23:47
Hi,I would like to know if anyone else has problems with their eyes before a seizure?The problem I have is that before a seizure,my eyes feel very heavy and if I am awoke from it then I see double for just a short time.I remember everything that has happened and can hear during it.Just can't move or open my eyes or talk.I have been diagnosed with epilepsy.    Thanks for any info., Maggie

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RE: eye problems/seizures?

Submitted by amanda725 on Wed, 2005-06-15 - 10:26

HI MAGGIE. 

I HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH MY EYES BEFORE I HAVE A SEIZURE.  THEY GET REALLY HEAVY AND ALSO START FLUTTERING LIKE I CAN'T KEEP THEM SHUT.  THEY START FEELING LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO ROLL BACK.  I HAVE GRAND MAL SEIZURES SO I REALLY DON'T REMEMBER A WHOLE LOT BUT I DO REMEMBER MY EYES DOING THAT.  THAT'S HOW I KNOW I'M GOING TO HAVE ONE.  GOOD LUCK!

AMANDA

HI MAGGIE. 

I HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH MY EYES BEFORE I HAVE A SEIZURE.  THEY GET REALLY HEAVY AND ALSO START FLUTTERING LIKE I CAN'T KEEP THEM SHUT.  THEY START FEELING LIKE THEY ARE GOING TO ROLL BACK.  I HAVE GRAND MAL SEIZURES SO I REALLY DON'T REMEMBER A WHOLE LOT BUT I DO REMEMBER MY EYES DOING THAT.  THAT'S HOW I KNOW I'M GOING TO HAVE ONE.  GOOD LUCK!

AMANDA

Re: eye problems/seizures?

Submitted by terrilaughlin on Wed, 2006-02-22 - 11:20
I have the same problem and usually have know I am about to have a seizure. Mine got really active in August 2005 about a month before my grandmother died. I was having several daily. My eyes get so heavy they close, especially on the left side. After it is over I get a pain through my left eye and pain up my left arm into my shoulder. I have been having problems with the muscles in my arm from the spasms. It is like when your foot goes to sleep and then "it wakes up" and you get that wierd sensation, only I get the pain. For a few years I was waking up in the middle of the night sometimes out of a sound sleep with wierd dreams and pain in my arm and my head, now I think I was probably having these things in my sleep. I have always sort of stared off into space as a kid for brief periods. As a teenager working at the Y, a lady once asked me if anybody ever tested me for epilepsy. I thought she was just kidding me. She told me that I stared a lot. Here at work I was working at my computer and my head dropped and hit the keyboard one day. My eegs are all normal MRIs and CAT scans are all normal. I am supposedly going to the best neurologist in the greater Cincinnati area. He doesn't understand what is happening, he says. I am still having spells at least once a week. I take topamax 100 mg, twice daily; keppra 500mg, twice daily even though I am normal. Yet, he put down on my chart the diagnosis of partial onset epilepsy. I am so confused. Terri

Re: Re: eye problems/seizures?

Submitted by 2life on Wed, 2006-02-22 - 13:01
hi. yes i have an eye problem with all this too. but my left eye gets like alot, i mean alot, of pressure behind it. it feels like its swollen and about to be pushed out. just like terri, above comment, if the eegs are so normal. why am i having these daily. cold, frozen like arm, numb, and my left side of face numb. i dont get it. but i guess the eye thing is all related. hang in there. take care...

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