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Does these sound like simple partial seizures?

Sat, 10/24/2015 - 21:38

-Weird (quick) unreal feeling washes over me- all at once I feel like life&existence isn't real/doesnt make sense, fear, impending doom, extreme sadness, uncomfortable, like i need to cry& throw up but know i wont, feels like it originates in my stomach. I cant describe the experience, even that doesn't fully encompass how it feels. It's unreal. It comes out of nowhere and happens very quickly. When it happens, im not paralyzed but I feel like all I can do is stare/not do anything. Takes me a few seconds after to come back to real life. Not very frequently but its happened my whole life and recently more frequently.

-Intense de ja vu where I always think "I knew that was going to happen" (even though it's a new experience and I obviously didn't), so I try to figure out whats going to happen next but dont have a chance because I have to think "I knew that was going to happen" about everything. It's possible that I say this out loud, I'm not really sure cause I feel like I'm in my own little de ja vu world even though it's happening in real life. Every few months? Not very frequent.

-When I first wake up I smell coffee and donuts and hear a newspaper down stairs. Have a thought where I know that my dad is downstairs drinking coffee, reading the newspaper, with a box of donuts, and I'm excited to go see him. Lasts about 30 seconds and ends when I'm in the bathroom. Happens infrequently. (every 6 months or so?)

-When I'm driving usually- have a mini "blackout", feels like I was just shut off for a second or maybe I went blind for a second or even half a second, but then I'm confused about whether or not it even happened, and I always have the involuntary, kind of like an autopilot thought "wow life is weird", which doesn't make any sense, and thats the end of it. Same as the weird feeling, where I feel like I can't do anything but stare (even though I'm not paralyzed or anything and logically probably could do something).Happens so quickly and is so weird, I'm never sure if it even happened and I brush it off. Brain feels fuzzy after and I'm drained. (frequently lately, but only started happening recently.) 

I also have always had involuntary neck stiffening and then it twitches/jerks.

I'm concerned because lately my brain has been really fuzzy, like the front of it. And I've been exhausted all the time, and while my brain is fuzzy it feels like I'm about to have one of these experiences, and sometimes I do, and my brain gets fuzzier and fuzzier until I do. I've been either exhausted or fuzzy all the time lately and it's starting to take a big emotional tole on me. 

I have an eeg monday, and from what I've read on simple partial seizures it sounds like that but I've only explained one of these experiences to my doctor and I'm nervous to tell her the other ones, because I'm probably just going to sound crazy. I'm just wondering if anyone elses experiences are similiar to any of these (which ones?), or if it sounds like it could be simple partial seizures?

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