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Epilepsy or dissociation?
Wed, 04/20/2016 - 13:29Epilepsy seizures or dissociation?
I was diagnosed with epilepsy 14 year's ago(grand mal and petite mal seizures) I've been having weird symptoms for 4 years now and my neurologist can't seem to find out whats going on. Ive been experiences 3 symptoms. 1) terrible memory loss. I can't remember people
/ friends that i got together with about 10 times, memories of my younger childhood between 5-16 years of age its been hard for me to even make new memories.
2) every morning I wake up feeling like im going to have a petite mal seizure ( shakey/weak) it goes away in 30min-1hour. The weird part is that it happens even if i take a 1 hour nap. Every time I wakeup.
3) I've been feeling for about 4 year's now( same timeline as the other two symptoms) like I'm living in a dream. Like I'm watching myself live but not really being there? Almost like my life is just a dream. I've also noticed tunnel vision especially when driving. I don't drive because of how bad it is. I thought maybe itwas dissociation but my neurologist thinks its due to seizures?
Does anyone have these symptoms if so could you share your experience and can give me advice? Thank you so much!
Hi - realise that this was a
Submitted by ross0015 on Wed, 2019-07-31 - 07:38
Hi - realise that this was a long time ago but I was interested as to whether your symptoms have gone away. I have these symptoms and they persist and it's very frustrating and depressing - I can't work. Let me know if anything has worked for you.