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Can you pull yourself out of an aura when you feel it coming?
Mon, 02/15/2010 - 19:48Hi everyone. I've been asking a few questions since I'm new to this site. I've had 3 seizures so far, my first one being 3 months. So far my MRI and EEG were normal, then I did a full telemetric study, I find out those results in 2 days when I see my neuro again. After my third seizure he put me on Epilim 800mg without actually properly diagnosing me with epilepsy.
I'm very curious as to whether it's possible that my seizures are psychogenic? I have been under a lot of stress/anxiety/depression for quite a long time, plus a "traumatic" childhood as they would call it. I actually had a few anxiety attacks lately. I have had 2-3 episodes which you might call auras, however something tells me they may also be episodes of depersonalisation. My reasons being...once I learned that these might be epileptic auras, they scared the CRAP out of me and so whenever I felt them coming, I actually diverted my attention away from it...to make it stop. And I succeeded. I'm not sure if that's possible with real epileptic auras so I'm asking you guys. Also it's always the SAME feeling....a feeling of strangeness. The best way I can describe it is:
They always happen when I'm talking (well actually listening) to my mother speak. I'd be listening and then everything would change...rather my perception of it did. I can't SEE myself outside of my body, I kind of feel like I AM outside it...everything begins to look different...I know where I am, but I just see it differently? Kinda like when you stare at something for too long and then all of a sudden you get a whole new perspective on it.
Please, please I'd like to hear some of your experiences with auras! Have you been able to stop/control them? Or do they completely take you over?
My auras usually start in my
Submitted by Jessie Carney on Mon, 2019-12-16 - 15:22
My auras usually start in my stomach and slowly rise upward like filling a glass with water, my eyes and fingers and toes start to twitch and I don’t exactly know how to describe the feeling that goes through my body, it doesn’t hurt but it’s very uncomfortable, like butterflies in my stomach that gradually turn to a kind of paralyzation, it’s all fluttery and then that area is frozen as the area above it gets fluttery and freezes etc. etc. and when that paralyzation reaches the top of my head I go into full tonic-clonic seizing. I started having seizures in 2017 after a snowboarding accident where my helmet was compromised and I hit my head really hard on an ice patch, I had seizures almost everyday until early 2018 when they stopped and after about a year (2018 to Jan. 2019) of being seizure free, I started having episodes again. I have had 6 in the past two months, three of which were in public, one of which was in the middle of my f*cking anatomy class in front of all my peers. Since 2017 in my seizures I have broken my hands, given myself concussions, black eyes, and countless bruises; in my post octal state I have torn out IVs, hit doctors and first responders, fallen down a flight of stairs, and (my personal favorite) asked several nurses to marry me. My seizures are ruining my life, and it’s almost like there’s nothing I can do about it.