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Help me to explain - the ACTUAL event in question ..

Wed, 01/03/2007 - 01:37
Hi guys, I am trying to put together some more detailed information of what i experience (suspected TLE) for my Dr. I'm looking through all the sites, and I tee up with most symptoms. Although I can't find any detailed info on the 'main event' (as I call it). Assuming I have TLE, this is how i discribe it: Aura: A mixture of "interlectual" and "special senses", including derealization (this is my most common symptom over all). Sometimes I will not progress from this aura. Although some times, it will get much worse. This is where I am struggeling: The main event: I will feel as though I have gone in to another consciousness, and that my functioning is at a minimum. Although, I will continue to function as such. Sometimes my feet will feel really hot, and I can then feel the heat move up my body. To the point I will take shoes and socks off. I'll have to drink water or fluid of some sort. I will be void of a emotional repsonse, it will be limited to the thought of 'Ohhhhhh shit!!'. I will feel as though I just need to hang on for dear life and some how survive. This actual event may last for about 5 seconds. I may then feel really tired and sloppy, and a bit all over the place. I may cry or begin to shake. It may take me 20 minutes to feel normal again. So do you guys get this 'main event'? I cant seem to find documented info similar to this. All I can find it symptoms that I consider to happen before my 'main event'. Or is this just the actual sz's and I am reading dodgy info? haha Ta muchly

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Re: Help me to explain - the ACTUAL event in question ..

Submitted by StevenE on Thu, 2007-02-15 - 12:04
Hi. ooh, that sounds familiar. My auras have always been difficult to desribe to others. I came up with these words: Depersonalization, outside of myself, Uneasy, Jittery, Nervous, Queasy ("butterflies in my stomach") Agitated, Apprehensive, Afraid, a sense of dread. This in fact a partial sez as there was no loass of consciousness and no lost time. These sensations eventually became warning signs that some degree of seizure was about to happen. Over time, the progression went like this: Partial sez, Complex Partial Sez, then a Gran Mal.

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