Do you consider auras to be seizures

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My husband had epilepsy and had surgery a little over two months ago. He has had auras on and off for the past two days, no seizures. However, when I called his doctors office the nurse said that auras are little seizures. I never heard that before and now am heartbroken because if I tell my husband that he will lose it. Has anyone else heard that before?Jackie

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RE: RE: Do you consider auras to be seizures

Submitted by e_nuffofthis on Wed, 2004-12-01 - 10:23

Like you've heard, auras are simple partial seizures... but you can discuss with your doctor the fact that his brain is readjusting from the surgery. They do say it is common to experience seizures after surgery... up to a year as it takes the brain a year to heal... Did the doc ever discuss this with you?

RE: RE: RE: Do you consider auras to be seizures

Submitted by jackieoh on Thu, 2004-12-02 - 13:12

Hi! Sorry to be slow to respond... Let me give a little more background on my husband's auras. He has a quick aura (rising sensation in his stomach) prior to seizures where he either smacks his lips and walks around mumbling and trying to eat stuff or when he has a grand mal (I confuse all the new names) and hits the floor shaking and stuff. This aura is different, he gets it real intense then it just settles in for weeks. Nothing happens (he doesn't have an outright seizure) except that he does not sleep, he is nervous and tense as well as exhausted. Eventually it just sort of disappears without any rhyme or reason. What he is experiencing now is this long lasting aura. After speaking with the nurse he took an ativan (2 mg) on Tuesday night and a sleeping pill and still did not sleep and still had aura. Then last night again took ativan and sleeping pill and finally slept about 5 hours. They also increased his trileptal. He still has the aura but I feel a little bit better that he had some sleep. They also told him last night to go to the ER for an IV drip of medicine, however, after everything he has been through would not go. He is at work now and he says he still has the aura but feels as though he can go to sleep when he gets home. My husband is extremely stubborn (but so am I). I will allow him to try to get through this through the weekend but told him come Monday I will take him to ER if things are not better. It is hard, he is a grown man and I do not want to always tell him what to do but at the same time I get scared. How do you know what is right? I told him what the nurse said about aura's being seizures and he said "no they're not". I know he does not believe this because he doesn't like to believe that he has mini-seizures all the freakin time. Sorry, just a little frustrated for both him and me. Our lives have been on hold for so long and we hoped that this would be the miracle we were looking for. I guess everyone feels that way and that I am just feeling sorry for us.

Thanks for all your input. Sorry to babble, just that know one else in our life understands.

Jackie

Hi!  Sorry to be slow to respond...  Let me give a little more background on my husband's auras.  He has a quick aura (rising sensation in his stomach) prior to seizures where he either smacks his lips and walks around mumbling and trying to eat stuff or when he has a grand mal (I confuse all the new names) and hits the floor shaking and stuff.  This aura is different, he gets it real intense then it just settles in for weeks.  Nothing happens (he doesn't have an outright seizure) except that he does not sleep, he is nervous and tense as well as exhausted.  Eventually it just sort of disappears without any rhyme or reason.  What he is experiencing now is this long lasting aura.  After speaking with the nurse he took an ativan (2 mg) on Tuesday night and a sleeping pill and still did not sleep and still had aura.  Then last night again took ativan and sleeping pill and finally slept about 5 hours.  They also increased his trileptal.  He still has the aura but I feel a little bit better that he had some sleep.  They also told him last night to go to the ER for an IV drip of medicine, however, after everything he has been through would not go.  He is at work now and he says he still has the aura but feels as though he can go to sleep when he gets home.  My husband is extremely stubborn (but so am I).  I will allow him to try to get through this through the weekend but told him come Monday I will take him to ER if things are not better.  It is hard, he is a grown man and I do not want to always tell him what to do but at the same time I get scared.  How do you know what is right?  I told him what the nurse said about aura's being seizures and he said "no they're not".  I know he does not believe this because he doesn't like to believe that he has mini-seizures all the freakin time.  Sorry, just a little frustrated for both him and me.  Our lives have been on hold for so long and we hoped that this would be the miracle we were looking for.  I guess everyone feels that way and that I am just feeling sorry for us.  Thanks for all your input.  Sorry to babble, just that know one else in our life understands.Jackie 

Hi! Sorry to be slow to respond... Let me give a little more background on my husband's auras. He has a quick aura (rising sensation in his stomach) prior to seizures where he either smacks his lips and walks around mumbling and trying to eat stuff or when he has a grand mal (I confuse all the new names) and hits the floor shaking and stuff. This aura is different, he gets it real intense then it just settles in for weeks. Nothing happens (he doesn't have an outright seizure) except that he does not sleep, he is nervous and tense as well as exhausted. Eventually it just sort of disappears without any rhyme or reason. What he is experiencing now is this long lasting aura. After speaking with the nurse he took an ativan (2 mg) on Tuesday night and a sleeping pill and still did not sleep and still had aura. Then last night again took ativan and sleeping pill and finally slept about 5 hours. They also increased his trileptal. He still has the aura but I feel a little bit better that he had some sleep. They also told him last night to go to the ER for an IV drip of medicine, however, after everything he has been through would not go. He is at work now and he says he still has the aura but feels as though he can go to sleep when he gets home. My husband is extremely stubborn (but so am I). I will allow him to try to get through this through the weekend but told him come Monday I will take him to ER if things are not better. It is hard, he is a grown man and I do not want to always tell him what to do but at the same time I get scared. How do you know what is right? I told him what the nurse said about aura's being seizures and he said "no they're not". I know he does not believe this because he doesn't like to believe that he has mini-seizures all the freakin time. Sorry, just a little frustrated for both him and me. Our lives have been on hold for so long and we hoped that this would be the miracle we were looking for. I guess everyone feels that way and that I am just feeling sorry for us.