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Epilepsy/Seizure Caused Hallucinations?
Wed, 09/10/2008 - 14:58Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
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
If you have a history of
Submitted by TeeJaySoHairy on Sat, 2018-10-20 - 08:08
If you have a history of heavy on/off drinking, you may be experiencing alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWD). You should check it out. Repeated bouts of heavy drinking followed by periods of abstinence makes one highly susceptible to withdrawal symptoms, frequently within a day or two of the last drink. Best wishes.
If you have a history of
Submitted by TeeJaySoHairy on Sat, 2018-10-20 - 08:21
If you have a history of heavy on/off drinking, you may be experiencing alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWD). You should check it out. Repeated bouts of heavy drinking followed by periods of abstinence makes one highly susceptible to withdrawal symptoms, frequently within a day or two of the last drink. Best wishes.
I am on Keppra and have been
Submitted by WeatherTracker777 on Thu, 2018-10-11 - 01:38
I am on Keppra and have been struggling with what I would refer to more as “visions”. The reason I say this is because as I’ve read through your experiences on this posting, mine is actually different and I honestly don’t expect you to understand why. But when I have a “vision” episode, often times it seems to occur in reality. There is nothing weird or out of the ordinary about what I see. I warned my ex about a car wreck she would get into and told her the intersection it would occur at. Next day, I was with her, she forgot, we were at that intersection and we were t-boned by a red light runner. That is one of many examples.