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Hi, Do you ever feel like your perception of time is screwed up? This happens periodically for me. I hate to admit it, but it is like the paranoid feeling I've experienced when stoned in college (20 years ago). I get overly aware of myself and it is hard to take in what is going on around me in a timely manner. For instance, if I look at someone I end up staring because when I turn away, I realise I don't remember all that I just took in. It often happens at the grocery store. The produce guy is forever asking me if I need help finding anything. Sometimes I want to say "yes, my mind." When it has happened at church I am left wondering if I was singing really loud. That wouldn't be so bad if I had a great voice but I don't so then I worry.... It is a general spacey feeling, but no deja vu. Usually I end up having a battle with the yawns that lasts maybe 10 minutes. I hate it. I yawn and yawn and yawn which makes my eyes water and my nose run. I never see anyone else overtaken by yawning. Am I just a whiny, yawning freak?!!! Do you have weird perceptions of time and do you ever wonder if you were talking outloud without realising it? Nobody ever mentions me talking innappropriately, but sometimes I wonder.....

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Submitted by coopernicus on Mon, 2007-04-23 - 22:50

Thank you, happycat. I do have tle and experience my fair share of simples. I don't take medication because overall I function well without it. I worry about the side effects and also having a breakthrough seizure and losing my license. I am a single mom and I work full time. If I were unable to drive, it would be extremely difficult to keep it all together. I live in suburbia so driving is a necessity. I try to keep myself well rested and keep stress to a minimum. When I get spacey, it is different than my usual deja vu. It is not scary or pleasant. Just slow and ....dreamy or foggy. I have never mentioned this to a doctor because I feel like I could go on and on with all of my bizarre experiences. Where do you draw the line? I know when I am entering that foggy place and usually I get slightly nauseous. If I sit down and put my head down I feel better and then it is past. This doesn't sound very good now that I am writing about it..... The thing is that all of my symptoms come and go and I am fine again. It is a drag when I feel generally jittery and cranky, or my memory is effected, or I keep fumbling as I speak....but it seems like the risks of meds overshadow any possible benefits. What do you think?

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Submitted by happycat2 on Wed, 2007-04-25 - 00:32

Hi coopernicus. You draw the line realize that you need to go see somebody that is professionally qualified to talk to about it.... Loosing your license is going to be nothing compared to the way you will feel if an accident happens you are at the wheel find yourself in jail.... What in the world will you do then. Blame it on the fog or feeling bizarre. Be willing to risk saying that and sounding bizarre? If you have spoken to anyone outside of here, how will they feel if anything happens to you. I appreciate you are not feeling good about it right now. Cognitive shifts have that effect. I appreciate you are a single mother living in suburbia that needs to work at balancing the chequebook. While you are. Think as in think about this... You have had episodes of dÃ©jÃ vu that have been scary, unpleasant. So have I. You are aware something is happening. So was I. Enough to know this... Keeping your head down is a quick fix. Some things can be fixed, some cannot, or ever will be. I in the past have read of at least one person bragging openly on a support board about covering up for their professor the fact he had seizure episodes in class. I appreciate they did not want him to loose tenure. I did not appreciate having to wonder how they would feel about him cycling to school if he lost his aura, was not wearing a helmet. Your usual dÃ©jÃ vu has changed. You are aware of that as you are of what is written in the links. So am I and I am no professional-never thought I was one. As a mature adult I know this and think this ... One of the first priorities facing the physician when evaluating a patient with epileptic seizures is to determine seizure type and, when possible, epileptic syndrome. This determination is critical because seizure type and epileptic syndrome to a great extent determine the type of evaluation the patient will receive, as well as the type of therapy. http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/seizures_classified.html While you realized your symptoms can come and go. They were enough within that world of fog you live in to make you realize its not easy living in the world of strange feeling wondering about med issues. You have choices... One was to arrive here and talk.â€¦ Good for you and appreciated. You have made a start by talking here about what you are experiencing. You know how it goes. Face it, be bothered enough to get reading. In other words do so to talk to someone. You know-as I know the physician can give you a better picture of what is the next step at drawing the line and draw you one. Hang in there while you are thinking. Stay positive and upbeat. It helps. Cat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure http://www.ilae-epilepsy.org/Visitors/Centre/ctf/aura_continua.cfm "Many false prophets are gone out into the world." 1 John 4:1

Hi coopernicus. You draw the line realize that you need to go see somebody that is professionally qualified to talk to about it.... Loosing your license is going to be nothing compared to the way you will feel if an accident happens you are at the wheel find yourself in jail.... What in the world will you do then. Blame it on the fog or feeling bizarre. Be willing to risk saying that and sounding bizarre? If you have spoken to anyone outside of here, how will they feel if anything happens to you. I appreciate you are not feeling good about it right now. Cognitive shifts have that effect. I appreciate you are a single mother living in suburbia that needs to work at balancing the chequebook. While you are. Think as in think about this... You have had episodes of dÃ©jÃ  vu that have been scary, unpleasant. So have I. You are aware something is happening. So was I. Enough to know this... Keeping your head down is a quick fix. Some things can be fixed, some cannot, or ever will be. I in the past have read of at least one person bragging openly on a support board about covering up for their professor the fact he had seizure episodes in class. I appreciate they did not want him to loose tenure. I did not appreciate having to wonder how they would feel about him cycling to school if he lost his aura, was not wearing a helmet. Your usual dÃ©jÃ  vu has changed. You are aware of that as you are of what is written in the links. So am I and I am no professional-never thought I was one. As a mature adult I know this and think this ... One of the first priorities facing the physician when evaluating a patient with epileptic seizures is to determine seizure type and, when possible, epileptic syndrome. This determination is critical because seizure type and epileptic syndrome to a great extent determine the type of evaluation the patient will receive, as well as the type of therapy. http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/seizures_classified.html While you realized your symptoms can come and go. They were enough within that world of fog you live in to make you realize its not easy living in the world of strange feeling wondering about med issues. You have choices... One was to arrive here and talk.â€¦ Good for you and appreciated. You have made a start by talking here about what you are experiencing. You know how it goes. Face it, be bothered enough to get reading. In other words do so to talk to someone. You know-as I know the physician can give you a better picture of what is the next step at drawing the line and draw you one. Hang in there while you are thinking. Stay positive and upbeat. It helps. Cat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure http://www.ilae-epilepsy.org/Visitors/Centre/ctf/aura_continua.cfm "Many false prophets are gone out into the world." 1 John 4:1

Hi coopernicus. You draw the line realize that you need to go see somebody that is professionally qualified to talk to about it.... Loosing your license is going to be nothing compared to the way you will feel if an accident happens you are at the wheel find yourself in jail.... What in the world will you do then. Blame it on the fog or feeling bizarre. Be willing to risk saying that and sounding bizarre? If you have spoken to anyone outside of here, how will they feel if anything happens to you. I appreciate you are not feeling good about it right now. Cognitive shifts have that effect. I appreciate you are a single mother living in suburbia that needs to work at balancing the chequebook. While you are. Think as in think about this... You have had episodes of dÃ©jÃ vu that have been scary, unpleasant. So have I. You are aware something is happening. So was I. Enough to know this... Keeping your head down is a quick fix. Some things can be fixed, some cannot, or ever will be. I in the past have read of at least one person bragging openly on a support board about covering up for their professor the fact he had seizure episodes in class. I appreciate they did not want him to loose tenure. I did not appreciate having to wonder how they would feel about him cycling to school if he lost his aura, was not wearing a helmet. Your usual dÃ©jÃ vu has changed. You are aware of that as you are of what is written in the links. So am I and I am no professional-never thought I was one. As a mature adult I know this and think this ... One of the first priorities facing the physician when evaluating a patient with epileptic seizures is to determine seizure type and, when possible, epileptic syndrome. This determination is critical because seizure type and epileptic syndrome to a great extent determine the type of evaluation the patient will receive, as well as the type of therapy. http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/seizures_classified.html While you realized your symptoms can come and go. They were enough within that world of fog you live in to make you realize its not easy living in the world of strange feeling wondering about med issues. You have choices... One was to arrive here and talk.â€¦ Good for you and appreciated. You have made a start by talking here about what you are experiencing. You know how it goes. Face it, be bothered enough to get reading. In other words do so to talk to someone. You know-as I know the physician can give you a better picture of what is the next step at drawing the line and draw you one. Hang in there while you are thinking. Stay positive and upbeat. It helps. Cat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seizure http://www.ilae-epilepsy.org/Visitors/Centre/ctf/aura_continua.cfm "Many false prophets are gone out into the world." 1 John 4:1

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Submitted by coopernicus on Wed, 2007-04-25 - 00:59

I appreciate your straight forward attitude. Believe me, if I felt I was unsafe to drive or function properly at work, etc.... I'd be trying the meds and altering my lifestyle (not driving,etc...) However, I really don't think it is to that point. I am watching my patterns carefully because I think things are changing due to perimenopause. I saw a neurlogist last summer and an epileptologist last fall. The epileptologist agreed with me that I am handling the warnings well. When I was younger (20 years ago) I used to lose consciousness during a partial. Now, I only have simples and don't lose consciousness. (I don't know about during sleep. I wonder.) You've made me think honestly about my attitude, though. I am still avoiding talking about this frankly and openly with others. This forum is helping me come to terms with epilepsy. Reading about others and their experiences validates my experiences and helps me to feel less alone and...different. My experiences with neuros has been very dismissive. They just want to write a prescription. And I am always back at the concern of risk of breakthrough seizures and/or side effects vs the benefits. -Coopernicus