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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 sophia_hill on Tue, 2008-09-30 - 07:45

wow... i wish my neuro didn't belive in EEG's life would be sooo much easier for me, (and my hair too!!!) my EEG and MRI came back normal which was a pain .. so its now more EEG'S but atlest there free.... thankgod  for the NHS.. (national health service, i'm from the uk by the way hence NHS) but i have been  offically diagnosed with EP  and the shit that comes with it (please excuse the french)

sooooo...  ... ERM... erm....... @:~)....... (30 min later from actually starting this post).... so were was i... oh. sorry got destracted (a.d.h.d)..erm erm ..bugger i've forgot!!! lol sorry :( :8).

this is what happens to me.. bad memory and i'm only 18 god save and help me from loosin it later.. might be sooner but i hope not!!! lol well when i remember i'll do another post :). p.s my mums called maddy too... but she's really barmy and crackers... hence her nickname.... mad-maddy/ my MOTHER... hmmm. hehehe lov soph xxxx

wow... i wish my neuro didn't belive in EEG's life would be sooo much easier for me, (and my hair too!!!) my EEG and MRI came back normal which was a pain .. so its now more EEG'S but atlest there free.... thankgod  for the NHS.. (national health service, i'm from the uk by the way hence NHS) but i have been  offically diagnosed with EP  and the shit that comes with it (please excuse the french)

sooooo...  ... ERM... erm....... @:~)....... (30 min later from actually starting this post).... so were was i... oh. sorry got destracted (a.d.h.d)..erm erm ..bugger i've forgot!!! lol sorry :( :8).

this is what happens to me.. bad memory and i'm only 18 god save and help me from loosin it later.. might be sooner but i hope not!!! lol well when i remember i'll do another post :). p.s my mums called maddy too... but she's really barmy and crackers... hence her nickname.... mad-maddy/ my MOTHER... hmmm. hehehe lov soph xxxx

Re: goose bumps & 'hidden' seizures?

Submitted by epilep on Thu, 2009-12-10 - 12:30

Hi, I can totally relate to what you are saying.  I have had epilepsy for 24 years now and I am still in the dark over it.  I have gone to see so many Neurologists, and I have not found one yet that knows one thing that I am talking about.  I have had them tell me that it is all just anxiety attacks, and nothing more.  I don't necessarily get goose bumps but a very sick feeling in my stomach when I am about to have a spell, and then horrible headaches later and very, very, tired.  I just saw a Neurologist yesterday thinking maybe this is the one that will be able to help me, and of course i was wrong turned out to be the same old, same old!  Do some as they call them Neurology tests; follow the finger move tongue back and forth, blah,blah,blah.  I am told that I am fine and there is nothing wrong with me and then there they go again prescribing more PILLS!  I take 500mg a day already of Dilantin, I am sick and tired of taking these damn pills.  Man has done some amazing stuff with technology over the years but there is still one thing that man still can't figure out today and that is the human brain!  I just hope someday they find a cure for Epilepsy.

 

 

Hi, I can totally relate to what you are saying.  I have had epilepsy for 24 years now and I am still in the dark over it.  I have gone to see so many Neurologists, and I have not found one yet that knows one thing that I am talking about.  I have had them tell me that it is all just anxiety attacks, and nothing more.  I don't necessarily get goose bumps but a very sick feeling in my stomach when I am about to have a spell, and then horrible headaches later and very, very, tired.  I just saw a Neurologist yesterday thinking maybe this is the one that will be able to help me, and of course i was wrong turned out to be the same old, same old!  Do some as they call them Neurology tests; follow the finger move tongue back and forth, blah,blah,blah.  I am told that I am fine and there is nothing wrong with me and then there they go again prescribing more PILLS!  I take 500mg a day already of Dilantin, I am sick and tired of taking these damn pills.  Man has done some amazing stuff with technology over the years but there is still one thing that man still can't figure out today and that is the human brain!  I just hope someday they find a cure for Epilepsy.

 

 

Re: goose bumps & 'hidden' seizures?

Submitted by cmagdesign on Wed, 2011-12-07 - 23:43
Mathison5, I realize this is 2years later but i just came across this site and read your comment. I'd love to talk to you about this stuff if you are available: cmagaritydesign@yahoo.com thanks, Colleen

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