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Speaking just before a seizure?
Mon, 07/05/2010 - 19:59Alrighty, I have a question for anyone that cares to read this. XD
Has anyone tried to talk right before a seizure? Like call out or anything?
Because before my first seizure, I remember waving my hand in front of my face and not seeing them (which totally tripped me out; I eventually figured out my eyes must have kept the last image they saw imprinted on my retinas. Which is kinda cool in a strange way.) and I called out to my friend, or I THOUGHT I did. Haven't had a chance to ask her if she heard or not, though.
My second one was when I was in the basement of my house, and I THOUGHT I screeched for my dad, but apparently some sort of strange mumble came out, but thank God he heard anyway. I could have sworn I yelled.
So, that means my linguistic/vocal centre shut down, right? Has anyone else tried to alert people they were going to have a seizure? Because I need to know if I can manage to get someone's attention before I seize.
By the way, I have grand mal/tonic clonic seizures and my aura lasts about 10 seconds. Starts with heaviness in the limbs, then the sight goes, then I am down and out. Recovery takes about two hours.
Thanks in advance!
-Azari
Comments
Re: Speaking just before a seizure?
Submitted by TheSmokeMonster on Tue, 2010-07-20 - 03:05
Wow! I am really new to this, but this sounds exactly like what I have done nearly my entire life. It's quite incredible how seizures can go misdiagnosed as anxiety attacks for over a decade. I don't mean to sound harsh or mean, but I am steering clear of anyone in the psychology profession for a while. I was never even told I should see a neurologist or anyone else as a possibility for these 'uncurable' "panic attacks"... I just thought I had really bad panic attacks my entire life and the medicine they gave me did nothing but make me worse. This has been happening since I was a young girl and I just turned 26. I got my first bottle of anti-convulsants a week ago. Standing in line too long.
Wow! I am really new to this, but this sounds exactly like what I have done nearly my entire life. It's quite incredible how seizures can go misdiagnosed as anxiety attacks for over a decade. I don't mean to sound harsh or mean, but I am steering clear of anyone in the psychology profession for a while. I was never even told I should see a neurologist or anyone else as a possibility for these 'uncurable' "panic attacks"... I just thought I had really bad panic attacks my entire life and the medicine they gave me did nothing but make me worse. This has been happening since I was a young girl and I just turned 26. I got my first bottle of anti-convulsants a week ago. Standing in line too long.
Re: Speaking just before a seizure?
Submitted by mel1231 on Mon, 2010-07-19 - 03:23
From childhood, my partial complex seizures were misdiagnosed as anxiety attacks due to the sense of intense fear and deja vu. Almost every time I had one of these "anxiety attacks", I would announce it's arrival! I would feel my heart start to race, and just before deja vu would set in, I'd announce "I'm having a panic attack!" Often this would be followed by me walking off across the room or wherever. When I finally got diagnosed at age 27 with complex partial seizures, "I'm having a panic attack" became "oh S**t" or something along those lines. My neurologist said that's a textbook symptom.
From childhood, my partial complex seizures were misdiagnosed as anxiety attacks due to the sense of intense fear and deja vu. Almost every time I had one of these "anxiety attacks", I would announce it's arrival! I would feel my heart start to race, and just before deja vu would set in, I'd announce "I'm having a panic attack!" Often this would be followed by me walking off across the room or wherever. When I finally got diagnosed at age 27 with complex partial seizures, "I'm having a panic attack" became "oh S**t" or something along those lines. My neurologist said that's a textbook symptom.