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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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Submitted by jbarry315 on Thu, 2007-03-01 - 10:55
The auras that I experience seem to encompass a lot of the same characteristics that those already described do. There's the tingling, the olefactory hallucination I can't identify and can only describe as smelling the color orange, a tightness in my chest with a difficulty breathing and moving, the sense that the air has somehow become thicker than it should be, and the disconnect from reality--- as if I am observing the world rather than living in it. I also feel an intense and overpowering emotion of grief, like someone dear to me has died. This might be something like the feeling of doom already described, except I feel it physically taking hold of me. Add to this a general feeling of nausea and a slight headache, and what's there next leads up to the point at which I feel the intense dread described. It is here that I make my peace with my Maker, understanding that something has got hold of me that I can't shake and won't turn loose. The next thing I feel is the incapacity to breathe at all coming over me and the world going black. The experience I can only describe as what I envision it would be like to drown is what I feel as I lose consciousness, if I DO lose consciousness; and, that does not always happen. I know once I feel these things starting that either they will pass, or I will wake up with a mouth full of blood and a huge knot somewhere on my head. Fortunately, that has not happened in many years. And, I have been advised by neurologists both ways as to the classification of an aura. The best I can gather is that an aura is, indeed, a sign that something is wrong; and, since they are linked to seizures, and often involve the same areas of the brain that the seizures do which follow them, they can be thought of as a part of the seizure itself. My understanding is that where the aura constitutes something not experienced by people having "normal" brain function, it can be classified as a seizure in and of itself. The new literature does, indeed, make this determination. The aura is not, however, seen to be the equivalent of a grand-mal seizure--- and is not treated as aggressively as that is. Hope it helps. jb

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Submitted by tweetty1 on Fri, 2007-03-02 - 17:42
It sounds like everybodys perception of an aura is a little different. Mine feel like a seizure is starting then stops. I find them annoying. I have had seizures for 30 years now and am pleased to just have auras now. tweetty1

Hi tweety, I'm truly not

Submitted by solis on Fri, 2007-03-02 - 18:39
Hi tweety, I'm truly not partial to hurting feelings; but, although you think you "just have auras", truth is you still are having seizures. (Simple Partial Seizures) http://www.epilepsy.com/stories/ps_1064005012.html http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial.html ~sol

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