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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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Re: How exactly do aura's feel
Submitted by Brady18 on Wed, 2013-03-20 - 10:37
My aura's are so bizarre. When I was first diagnosed with epilepsy I would have an aura that consisted of my mouth going numb. It would be like a sweeping sensation throughout my tongue. Although I didn't realize it at the time, those were my partial seizures. When I had my first grand mal in the hallway of my high school it was the WORST mouth numbness and it traveled down my arm (thought I was having a stroke). I was originally on Trileptal but since then I have changed my medications many times.
Since this mouth numbness my aura's have changed to a whole body numbness which meant I could not feel anything. One time I was teaching swim lessons and couldn't even feel the water (yikes! talk about scary). After a year or so of that feeling it then changed into a "weighing down" feeling where it feels like I'm moving in slow motion and like someone is sitting on me. It's terrible and I never know what my next aura will be like.
Exact opposite for me. If I
Submitted by JesM on Thu, 2017-10-12 - 22:54
Exact opposite for me. If I can relax myself enough to fall asleep, it won't happen. If I stay awake...the seizure is imminent.
Mine are always around my
Submitted by Nikkirippy87 on Sat, 2017-04-08 - 01:13
Mine are always around my period too, for 6 yrs now. Every cycle... For 36 hrs in a row at a time