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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. :)
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I just had one last night. I
Submitted by Aubreyciechan on Fri, 2018-11-02 - 22:08
I just had one last night. I couldn't control my body. I wanted to speak but all I could do was scream. I was seeing visions of things that's kept me stressed and stuff I've been worrying about. I was seeing stuff from my childhood. I can't even explain. I thought I was about to die. The ambulance got there to save me but my heart was 200 over what it was supposed to me. I felt like I was being electrocuted
I had one where i was in a
Submitted by Zemog on Thu, 2018-12-06 - 08:34
I had one where i was in a black barbershop and Just got up to notice my chewed up tongue and kept trying to explain i had a seizure... but it seemed like no one knew what epilepsy was or cared. Everyone had their phones out, i think i might be on worldstar doing the worm at some barbershop or it was all a hallucination?
Does anyone else experience
Submitted by TeeJaySoHairy on Sat, 2018-10-20 - 08:21
Does anyone else experience oral seizures and hallucinations? I have frequent tongue and jaw spasms, excessive yawning, and often strange oral phenomena such as "horse teeth" — the sensation that my teeth are exceedingly large. Prior to hospitalizations I have had the impression my tongue was purple (it wasn't) and swollen (again, no). On a daily basis, the tip of my tongue goes numb or tingles with everything it encounters, even water, or when nothing is present at all. It simply buzzes spontaneously. Next thing you know I'll be speaking in parsel-tongue.