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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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Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by Ramblinman on Mon, 2006-05-22 - 13:31
My auras seem to start with a an odor as well. Last night as I was in bed I all of the sudden smelled something bad. I looked at the foot of the bed to blame the dogs but they weren't there. I knew it wasn't me (this time) and my wife was in the kithen (she's too ladylike anyway) then I thought, Bleeeep, not again. My left side of my body then started shaking and my stomach started aching then I just laid there for about 15 minutes feeling sort of out of it. Luckily I was ony watching Family Guy which doesn't require too many brain cells. Thankfully that's pretty much as far as my seizures usually progess but they usually start with a smell and end up with me shaking and being confused or just feeling spacey.

Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by Susan C on Sat, 2006-09-02 - 08:06
Before I was diagnosed with epilepsy and knew what they were...I started to begin getting this OVERWHELMING sense of deja vu' where I would be talking to someone and then say "oh, I think I'm going to say something...and then just sit for what seemed like a minute while the person just watched me and all the while, I could swear, something was on the tip of my tongue and I couldn't really/didn't do anything else but sit there until this feeling subsided. Totally conscious the whole time. Over a period, it seemed to happen more frequently until I had my grand mall during the night where my boyfriend (now my husband) awoke to find me totally seizing in bed and I was diagnosed...(which explains when I was single why I would wake up sometimes with my tongue all bitten up and not know why)! Don't really remember tingling or anything...but I still get much smaller ones from time to time (been very successful on Trileptal), where this feeling overwhelms me..sometimes I'll get the same images running through my mind repetitively - like I always seem to have the Keebler Elves as one of them! Bizarre, because I never buy their brand of food...it just seems stuck in my mind. I read that it's my brain fooling my hippocampus into thinking this is an old situation/memory, when really it's not...because of the deju vu' feeling - but I could SWEAR I had memories of whatever situation was running through my mind. The consensus seems to be....when you have the feeling - whatever it is...it's very distinct and you know it and they are technically small seizures! Don't have to be unconscious or go into a "grand mall" or "tonic-clonic seizure". My feelings go away after a few seconds...but now I know what it is. Weird! I consider myself a lucky person. ~Susan

After reading the replies, I

Submitted by coopernicus on Sun, 2006-09-03 - 01:29
After reading the replies, I feel so validated. My auras are deja vu - usually of dreams that I can swear I had. Although once it was a song by Yes. (My stomache jumps when I hear it, now, but never any auras.) They are very distinct. After hearing about other people's seizures, I too, consider myself lucky that mine aren't worse. They are happening much more often though and I am noticing other symptoms as well. I have spacey periods throughout most days. I feel disconnected from my body and just feel like staring. It has been like this for as long as I can remember. In a sense,it is a nice break from the day ;)I pray that it doesn't get worse.

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