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Does anyone else feel like you know when your seizure is coming?
Fri, 01/25/2008 - 16:03Hey, I'm new...I've had epilepsy since I was about 11...I'm almost 18 now. Anyways, sometimes, most days when I'm about to have a seizure, throughout the day, I have these weird "feelings". I can't really describe it, but I think there is a word for it, like a warning signal I guess. I don't know if anyone knows what I'm talking about. But the feeling is really weird, like all of a sudden, I get the chills, and my body feels cold, and I get this weird feeling, almost like a da sha vuu, like I remember "thinking" this thought before, but then I forget it. I don't know...it's very weird, and I know I'm probably not making any sense. Anyways, I know I'm not having a seizure then because I am fully conscious and don't make any movements. But I might have a few of those moments through out the day leading up to my seziure.
Anyways, I was just wondering if anyone else got thos feelings, since I suspect it's related to my epilepsy. Or maybe you want to share any other ways you know you're seziure is coming on.
I have complex partial seizures by the way.
I started having seizures
Submitted by Bethany.morgan on Tue, 2019-01-01 - 23:39
I started having seizures when I was about 8, and I had quite a few for a couple of years. I’m 16 now and my eeg still isn’t normal, but I can never get the weird feeling just before a seizure out of my mind. I tried explaining it to my mom but I guess it just doesn’t make sense to someone who hasn’t experienced the feeling before. My chest would get heavy and I felt this extreme sense of dread, and I felt so sick. Everything felt so off. I remember that I started crying before my first seizure because I was so scared and I didn’t understand why I felt so weird. I would also get flashes of these weird memories that I wouldn’t be able to recall after the seizure at all. My vision went black when i stood up, and my mom said I would stumble through the living room trying to get to her while shouting “it’s coming” but it sometimes came out as “he’s coming.” I just don’t know how else to describe the feeling than just weird and terrifying.