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goose bumps & 'hidden' seizures?

Tue, 01/10/2006 - 00:07
Hi, this is Maddie, I'm really glad to find this site. I still don't know for sure whether i have some kind of epilepsy. Neurology hasn't been much help, but my own dr believes i do because of a long history of strange episodes and LTL abnormality on eeg. But if so i don't understand exactly what form the seizures are taking, since those general episodes that i get can go on for a couple of days (seems too long for a single seizure, surely?). Also I don't have the main things that are often mentioned with left TLE, like bad smell, deja vu, staring, chewing, etc. (at least as far as I know). But over about 8 years I've steadily developed so many problems with mental speed, executive functions and any kind of abstract thinking, and i just can't understand how this much damage could be done by epilepsy - if that's what it is - wihtout seizures making themselves more obvious. Is there any such thing as sub-clinical seizures, or seizure-like activity, that can go on without classic seizure signs? Also, can goose-bumps be part of a seizure? Mine can be on leg, or head, or arm, or sometimes head & arm together, but only ever on one side at a time, never left & right together. The feeling can cover half or most of my leg or arm, but when I look at it the visible goose-bumps are spread out in a strange random pattern - say a blob here, a little curving strip there, and another patch further down. For a while they keep coming with a sort of 'pumping' feeling, like pulsing every few seconds. Also there's a 'soft' version of the same thing, that just makes a patch of skin feel a bit sticky. On days when I get all this it can be basically continuous, several times every hour. Can goose-bumps be an aura? Is an aura basically a simple partial seizure?

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I get weird Goosebumps on my

Submitted by Bjustwants2B on Sat, 2018-05-05 - 22:11
I get weird Goosebumps on my left leg mostl. Sometimes my left arm at the same time a spot in the back of my head kind of tingles with dull pain. I've had whiplash, a handful of neck and back injuries, scoliosis, tinnitus, and now degenerative disc disease at 34 with new Raynauds/cyansomething and sensory processing symptoms. Thought I was having mini strokes too. Never talked about sesures with drs. Every few days it feels like my lumbar spine is strangling nerves and veins and slowly killing me. Sometimes I feel like things shift around everywhere and are pushing on.

Re: goose bumps & 'hidden' seizures?

Submitted by bagio on Mon, 2013-01-28 - 16:58

Hello,

Since Aug 2011 I started to get these episodes a rush to my head and  I feel so tired.  In January 2011 my daughter gave birth to  my grandaughter and I work and babysit 2 to 3 time an evening from 5 to 11:30.  It's 2013 I am still getting these episodes and now it starts with the goosebumps on my arms and a rush to my head for a few secounds.   The Doctor says I have panic attacks / stress. They don't seem to go away . I am taking Clonazepam 0.5 mg twice a day . They don't help. I have had an eeg and a 24 hour eeg and all is good.

I just had an MRI and they found a small hole in my heart the heart Dr. said it 's fine just come see him once a year.   My sister is helping me with babysitting since she got laid off and lives next door to my daughter which helps a lot.  Now I find out I am losing my job here at Pepsi 130 of us.  So that's no help.  

Has any one had these same systems? Oh I am also depressed from all this and have no interested in anything .

 

Thank You

Martha

martha.montanez@pepsico.com 

 

 

 

Hello,

Since Aug 2011 I started to get these episodes a rush to my head and  I feel so tired.  In January 2011 my daughter gave birth to  my grandaughter and I work and babysit 2 to 3 time an evening from 5 to 11:30.  It's 2013 I am still getting these episodes and now it starts with the goosebumps on my arms and a rush to my head for a few secounds.   The Doctor says I have panic attacks / stress. They don't seem to go away . I am taking Clonazepam 0.5 mg twice a day . They don't help. I have had an eeg and a 24 hour eeg and all is good.

I just had an MRI and they found a small hole in my heart the heart Dr. said it 's fine just come see him once a year.   My sister is helping me with babysitting since she got laid off and lives next door to my daughter which helps a lot.  Now I find out I am losing my job here at Pepsi 130 of us.  So that's no help.  

Has any one had these same systems? Oh I am also depressed from all this and have no interested in anything .

 

Thank You

Martha

martha.montanez@pepsico.com 

 

 

 

Re: goose bumps & 'hidden' seizures?

Submitted by kaitlynsmom on Fri, 2008-07-18 - 00:47
Ok, so I'm glad that I just saw this!! I get goosebumps and "shivers" all of the time... sometimes my "shivers" happen so hard that my head will shake or jerk. I had my EEG done weeks ago and they only told me that I had some mild abnormalities. I get these awful headaches but they feel so much different than migraines and I get really tired, dizzy, fuzzy feeling and just a general out of it several times a day. I can't find any information, luckily I finally got the referral to go to the neurologist because I am starting to feel crazy!! Have you found a doctor who listens yet? Sure hope so!! Let me know what they have said and even what meds you are on?

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