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Deja Vu Episodes Normal EEG
Sun, 05/22/2016 - 14:52Hi everyone, it's my first time posting here.
I'll try to keep it short. I experience deja vu which I know most people do in their lifetime but I have it regularly. I just experienced it again last night; my stomach felt really nervous and flip floppy (I know that's not a word lol) and got really scared out of nowhere a few seconds before the deja vu happened. Early this morning I feel like I had another deja vu experience while I was still in bed.
Today I feel awful;very fatigued, lightheaded, a little dizzy and a little short of breath (which happens to me from time to time).
I told my neurologist (I see him for trigeminal neuralgia and migraines) about the deja vu last year and he did an eeg which was normal. I'm not sure what to do now that the eeg was normal as I know that deja vu can be a temporal lobe seizure.
I was just diagnosed with lupus last summer after years of frustration and normal tests (finally something came back positive) and finally getting a good rheumatologist. Now I feel like I'm back to that square one with this deja vu thing. If you have a normal eeg...what do you do? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you very much.
With some people the deja vu
Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2016-05-23 - 14:48
With some people the deja vu is also a warning that another seizure might happen.The very fatigued, lightheaded, a little dizzy and a little short of breath (which happens to me from time to time).<< could be seizures or parts of seizures. Or the post ictal state. after seizure feelings for a perios of time. To me those are the time it gets to gt back to normal. Those migrains you have had could also land in different seizures.If you have a normal eeg... <<< I had 20-25 different EEG's and they all came back normal. then I was in a hospital where tests were bing do to find out just what was causing my seizures. The last test in that week was another EEG in which I fell asleep in. That EEG came back with abnormalities. KNowing where they came from the neurologists started looking at all the other tests closer in that area. Well that closer look was all that was needed. In the MRI of the 60's they found scar tissue in the left lobes of my brain.THey have sleep deprived EEG's and 72 hour ambulatory EEG's and even monitering units. So any of these might show more.Also the EEG's can only read to a certain debpt of the brain the abnormalities could be deeper.Get your rheumatologist to refer you to a neurologist that specialzes in elilepsy and tell them all of these issues. I hope you get the assistance you needJoe