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goose bumps & 'hidden' seizures?

Tue, 01/10/2006 - 00:07
Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
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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Re: goose bumps & 'hidden' seizures?

Submitted by esturdy on Mon, 2008-09-29 - 21:37

I am becoming more and more concerned. I am SO glad I found this. I had childhood epilepsy as a child BADLY. Around age 10 I got off medications. Since then it has been determined that if/when I hyperventilate or am exposed to flickering lights I will go into a seizure. For the longest time I have gotten these strange goose bumps. On my right arm ONLY. Described as someone else did on here. Very random "patches", weird designs... it freaks me out when it happens. Shortly after an occurance of this I experience confusion, disorientation. I am now convineced after reading others comments on here that I must be having some type of seizure.

 

I think doctors need to know about this...for all the ones on here who have mentioned that the doctors had no clue. 

I am becoming more and more concerned. I am SO glad I found this. I had childhood epilepsy as a child BADLY. Around age 10 I got off medications. Since then it has been determined that if/when I hyperventilate or am exposed to flickering lights I will go into a seizure. For the longest time I have gotten these strange goose bumps. On my right arm ONLY. Described as someone else did on here. Very random "patches", weird designs... it freaks me out when it happens. Shortly after an occurance of this I experience confusion, disorientation. I am now convineced after reading others comments on here that I must be having some type of seizure.

 

I think doctors need to know about this...for all the ones on here who have mentioned that the doctors had no clue. 

Re: goose bumps & 'hidden' seizures?

Submitted by sophia_hill on Mon, 2008-09-29 - 23:29

ello... i have goose bumps and tingerling sensantion, i also have over 10 types of simple partial szs and so may different other szs too...  but thats another story... wot you've discribled is called a simple partial szs and you don't have to hav all the symptomes heres a link i hope this helps... lov soph xxx

http://my.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial 

 

ello... i have goose bumps and tingerling sensantion, i also have over 10 types of simple partial szs and so may different other szs too...  but thats another story... wot you've discribled is called a simple partial szs and you don't have to hav all the symptomes heres a link i hope this helps... lov soph xxx

http://my.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial 

 

Re: goose bumps & 'hidden' seizures?

Submitted by Polemist on Fri, 2010-12-17 - 12:53
Don't know if anybody is still reading this. I neglected these episodes of random goosebumps, associated with a certain quality, akin to that of 'déjà vu'.. there's just a surreal 'aura' about it. Haven't taken note of whether they formed in patched or any other characteristic. But I do know they >have, but can take any form, just arms, whole body, legs etc. Been having these on and off (more or less frequency) for some years now, and it's developed in severity. I have attempted to find discussions of such 'conditions' online, without luck. It wasn't until I suffered a seizure, of which I was aware, that I linked the feeling I described to the seizures itself. It started out innocuous enough. A blissful sensation really. How do I say it, my head would feel light, I would feel light. Happy. Anyway, would develop goosebumps. Then also an ostensible 'other' voice, which is, obviously, my own, but felt like I had little or no control over, sometimes (seemingly) insightful (like in a déjà vu, something may just feel impossibly astounding, 'supernatural' almost.) Later developed, twitching, in the face. Later further developed a quivering of the jaw during these episodes. [What can I say? Sounds crazy] When it came down to it, that quivering turned into seizing, gurgling, convulsing. It was pretty scary. These 'episodes', what are they? I'll keep reading. Occur more frequently when awake for extended periods, consuming a lot of caffeine, food deprived... the sort of things that over-stimulate you mentally.

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