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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: Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by aquila316 on Tue, 2006-05-16 - 07:24
My auras begin with an odor. It's always the same, I have no idea what it is, because I cannot remember it after the sz, but I always know what it is when I smell it. Then my stomach tightens, as if it would due to extreme panic, but I'm not panicky at all, it's just my stomach muscles. I begin to sweat profusely (unlike me because I'm usually always cold in the A/C here in Fla.) Then the actual sz kicks in (I only get auras for the simple and complex partials in my temporal lobes--not the grand mals). Everything is always very familiar to me, but I can only recognize it during the spell...never afterwards. As a side note, sometimes an odor will trigger a sz for me, which really kind of sucks, because I love to try new foods. =) Susan

Hi... Auras shouldn't be

Submitted by solis on Wed, 2006-05-17 - 00:24
Hi... Auras shouldn't be dismissed as less as they ARE seizures. They're a type of simple partial when they occur immediately before a complex partial or a type of generalized seizure. See http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/auras.html Hi Wendy, After reading that piece on simple partials and you should have an idea. You might also read http://www.epilepsy.com/101/ep101_symptom.html ~sol

Re: Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by anniemarie on Mon, 2007-04-09 - 04:36
I never had any auras untill I reached my forties and I have had grand-mals since I was a child. I have been getting alot of them lately and they scare me to death. Sometimes I get this feeling like Iam in one and it only lasts about 5 sec and after that I get these Headaches which I call Seizure Headaches. I reconize these headaces I get because after I come out of a grand-mal I get these weird Headaches and they are hard to explain. I ;have told my Doctor about these but he does not seem to be concerned. He told me since iam not passing out with them the meds are working but, each time u have these absence Seisures and a grand-mal they do damage to your brain each time and I believe they leave Scar tissue as well in your brain.

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