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How exactly do aura's feel
Mon, 05/15/2006 - 11:30How 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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auras
Submitted by AnnaJ on Thu, 2007-11-29 - 12:39
Hey everybody...new here. I just had my first seizure last Friday, day after Thanksgiving. It
lasted about 20-30 seconds but after it I didn't remember what happened before it or during it.
I have never had a seizure before and it's freaking me out to say the least. I have been
experiencing what I have learned to be "auras" for about 2 years now, very intense deja vu with
feelings of total panic and loss of control over everything. When I told my doctor about this
they really didn't take me seriously because I've been struggling with intense panic attacks
since I was about 10 (am 23 now). And when the EEG last year came back fine they really didn't
pursue anything further. Now, I finally had a seizure and they're doing another EEG this Monday.
CT scan, MRI were both fine, nothing wrong. I completely understand the panicky feeling though.
I don't remember going a week without having a panic attack and then I have asthma so I've been in the
ER more than a few times thininking I was dying when they just had me blow in a paper bag. I just
wish the docs would've listened to me 2 years ago, really listened, instead of assuming that I
was just having another panic attack. Just make sure your doctors are listening and taking you
seriously when talking to them. Either that or find another doctor.
Re: How exactly do aura's feel
Submitted by Colina on Thu, 2006-09-07 - 11:26
Wendy, recently I told my epi that I was only having auras so it was'nt so bad. His response was that while this aura does not make me feel as bad as the full blown seizure, do not be mistaken these are seizures in themselves. He further said that with each aura/seizure the brain learns how to have seizures and therefore other areas may start to seize. Because of this he is adiment about finding a way to control them. My auras/seizures are almost always in form of de ja vu, the new "learned ones" always start as an incredible,intense memory from long ago. As a child I was having severe headaches and went through many tests, not knowing until just recently that I was having seizures, regular eeg showed nothing. Hope this helps a bit. Take care and smiles your way.
Re: Re: How exactly do aura's feel
Submitted by JORDAN on Wed, 2007-06-06 - 10:20
Hi I suffer from very bad panic attacks when I feel an aura. I am dead scared of going into status and maybe dying as a result. I also run, why I do I don't know. I usually feel a sense of unreal dread, as if I'm not in my body anymore my heart goes racing mad and then my vision goes. Firstly by these flying cloored, shining "fireballs" which at first spin slowly but then faster and faster, increasing in numbers. I used to fall at about this point. But nowadays I only get the visual stuff, palpitations etc. but no seizure.