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Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!
Fri, 04/13/2007 - 16:21Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
Hi everyone! I am a 30 y/o woman who has been experiencing "episodes" for 13-14 years. I had two this week, which were severe enough to scare me. I just finally went to see my doc today, who feels they could very well be seizures and is sending me to a neuro for evaluation. She is sending me for an MRI and EEG so that I can go to the neuro with them in hand...
These episodes generally happen randomly, but I've noticed that some pop up right when I'm drifting off to sleep. Why I've never thought there is something physically wrong with me until now, is beyond me. They start with a feeling of dread that something bad is going to happen, and I feel this throughout my entire body. Then, I enter a state of what I can only describe as being between dreaming and being awake. I'm conscious, but I feel entranced. It is during this state that I experience intense feelings of deja vu, dread, fear and I feel like I'm having premonitions of the future (I swear, I'm not crazy). Afterwards, my head tingles all over, I feel disoriented and confused, I begin sweating all over and I feel as though someone has stuffed my head full of cotton. At this point, the episode ends, but I'm left with the cotton brain feeling for several hours and I feel as though I've run a marathon and all I want to do is sleep.
I used to tell my mom when I was younger that I was experiencing these symptoms and she told me that I was having premonitions. LOL. Maybe that's why I never bothered to talk to a doc about it? However, the episodes I had this past Tuesday and Wednesday were so intense, my husband swore I was having seizures. He ran over to me and said that I looked like I wasn't there, that I was staring off into space and then I had this look of intense fear on my face. He also said that he doesn't know why he didn't think of this before, as he's watched me have dozens of them...
Is there anyone here that has experienced a similar thing???? I'm terrified.
Thanks so much in advance for you replies!
-Kat
Comments
have you considered having a
Submitted by astrial on Mon, 2018-07-02 - 01:18
have you considered having a sleep study done. i have had a lot of the symthoms you have described an more an the 2 sleep studys i have had were a great help to my nuro an my mental health who work togherher to control the type of eplepsys i have. you might want to look into it.
have you considered having a
Submitted by astrial on Mon, 2018-07-02 - 01:19
have you considered having a sleep study done. i have had a lot of the symthoms you have described an more an the 2 sleep studys i have had were a great help to my nuro an my mental health who work togherher to control the type of eplepsys i have. you might want to look into it.
Re: Seizures with psychic symptoms? Please help!!!!
Submitted by AshleyNicole- on Wed, 2010-03-10 - 14:00
Hello there ,
I am actually only 15 years of age experiencing nearly the samething. I dream of what may happen in the next couple of days, weeks, and when it happens in reality, its like a shock goes through my body, i then begin to feel very heavy and cant hold my weight, so i fall. I enter that state of being between dreaming and being awake also, but i begin to be very very nauseous, and i mean severely. But also, in my dream, it could be the smallest thing such as talking to my mom, but there could also be other people there in my dream, that wont be there in reality when the 'seizure' hits me, but when it does hit me, i am able to hear those people's voices from my dream and what was said, after a few minutes the 'seizure' comes to an end, but i am then very exhausted afterwards. My mom and friends that have witnessed, have also mentioned that i try talking while im 'seizuring', but i dont recall trying to talk? also, symptoms or, well im not to sure what to call them, but 'things' that start up these 'seizures', have now become a few different things, it used to just be deja vu, but now its becoming sounds, smells, and now memorys. I will think back into a memory from lets say, a few years back, and it again, will hit me and ill begin to 'seizure'. I have gone for an MRI in February, but it came back as normal, this morning, I have gone for the EEG, but now must wait 2 weeks for results.
- Ashley
Hello there ,
I am actually only 15 years of age experiencing nearly the samething. I dream of what may happen in the next couple of days, weeks, and when it happens in reality, its like a shock goes through my body, i then begin to feel very heavy and cant hold my weight, so i fall. I enter that state of being between dreaming and being awake also, but i begin to be very very nauseous, and i mean severely. But also, in my dream, it could be the smallest thing such as talking to my mom, but there could also be other people there in my dream, that wont be there in reality when the 'seizure' hits me, but when it does hit me, i am able to hear those people's voices from my dream and what was said, after a few minutes the 'seizure' comes to an end, but i am then very exhausted afterwards. My mom and friends that have witnessed, have also mentioned that i try talking while im 'seizuring', but i dont recall trying to talk? also, symptoms or, well im not to sure what to call them, but 'things' that start up these 'seizures', have now become a few different things, it used to just be deja vu, but now its becoming sounds, smells, and now memorys. I will think back into a memory from lets say, a few years back, and it again, will hit me and ill begin to 'seizure'. I have gone for an MRI in February, but it came back as normal, this morning, I have gone for the EEG, but now must wait 2 weeks for results.
- Ashley