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Deja vu/panic attacks - Very tired of being undiagnosed
Thu, 11/01/2012 - 18:14Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
Hi all,
I'm very new to thinking that I possibly have simple partial seizures, however after looking through many posts here, it could possibly explain my symptoms.
Over the last few months I have started having these very brief episodes of intense deja vu/flashbacks, and have realised that they mostly revolve around dreams I've had. I usually have the worst ones in the morning, and lead to what I thought was a panic attack. Then, through the rest of the day, I have extremely brief (less than half a second) deja vu flashes, that actually feel like my brain jolts somehow.
I initially thought there was something wrong with my heart (as the panic attacks initially started with severe heart palpitations), however these have stopped, and after doing an ECG, EEG, and a holter test, nothing wrong at all.
I'm getting to the point where I am so over the whole thing and starting to think that I'm losing my mind, and also that this will never stop.
Does anyone have a similar thing happening, particularly with the brain 'jolts'?
Any help would be really appreciated, I don't know how much longer I can keep feeling like I'm losing the plot!
Thanks in advance,
Gemma
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hi, I also suffer from the
Submitted by kaouther on Fri, 2020-05-08 - 14:16
hi, I also suffer from the same problem. to be honest, I feel relieved because I am not alone .. This started in the last year of middle school when I was suffering from extreme anxiety because of the final exams .. After the exams, these episodes completely disappeared .. Now in the end of the high school (almost 3 years) with the exams pressure and anxiety, those episodes came back again and i think I'm losing my mind.. it always start with deja vu with a racing heart, then a headache that lasts for an hour or two.. I'm really tired of this situation and I have no courage to tell my parents about this.
Hello, my son who is going to
Submitted by CDRit on Wed, 2019-11-13 - 00:36
Hello, my son who is going to be 18 next month recently started experiencing this. He had one EEG done which came back normal, and a CT Scan, also normal. He is also seeing a therapist now and we have a neurology appointment in a couple weeks. He explains the feelings of deja vu as he thinks those moments in time have already happened and feels like he is in a dream. This all came about after a viral illness in which he was taking amoxicillin and also a very bad experience smoking weed with his friends and it all started there. He honestly thought he was going to die. His heart rate was way up, blood pressure, etc. He also has an iga deficiency and had been diagnosed with graves disease in the past although currently in remission. I would like to see what others have as far as other medical conditions, as well as their use of antibiotics or marijuana to see if there is any connection. Thank you so much in advance for your answers.