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Epilepsy/Seizure Caused Hallucinations?

Wed, 09/10/2008 - 14:58
I have been reading about the different types of seizures and epilepsy and am pretty sure I have temporal lobe epilepsy (my neuro won't put a name on it yet). I just have a question. I spent a week in a neuro unit going from being just confused to almost a complete vegetable before my neuro finally ran an eeg and started me on Keppra. I have read that people hallucinate during seizures, but it also says the seizures only last 30 sec to 2 min. I was in the hospital a week, but it felt like years due to the constant hallucinating. I had a constant feeling of wanting to "make things right" or explain to someone what was wrong with me, even though I didn't know. Unfortunately, in my hallucinations, everytime I would come close to "making things right," one of my six children would die in some awful way. It was like a constant nightmare. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? The hallucinations described here under different forms of seizures are exactly right, but they lasted way longer than 2 minutes... is that possible? I don't know what to think. I know that Keppra made them go away even though I was still confused for days later. I'm so afraid of this happening again. I'm mainly just wanting to know if anyone experienced seizures that caused long hallucinations like this. Thank you. :)

Comments

i have illusinations to while

Submitted by taraelzey on Sat, 2017-12-30 - 04:52
i have illusinations to while having a seizure they come back to back see my dad hes been gone 12 years and some crazy things

Suffering not Sanford sorry

Submitted by Lauren Eileen on Fri, 2018-04-06 - 08:28
Suffering not Sanford sorry voice text

During seizures, if they’re

Submitted by Not telling you my name on Mon, 2018-06-11 - 10:54
During seizures, if they’re on the really bad side, can bend reality you might say. For example, I had one about two weeks ago. (Whenever the final game in the Stanley Cup playoffs ended.) As usual, every so often the cameras would show benched players. One guy’s eyes seemed to be popping out of his head. I thought this was reality, so I was cracking up. Rewinded 10 seconds. Nothing. It was a figment of the imagination.

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