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Has anyone experienced this w/ a seizure?

Thu, 12/28/2006 - 00:09
Hi, I had a scary experience last night after having a seizure and would like to know if anyone else has had this happen, too. First, let me give you a little background: I started having partial complexes 15 years ago. The docs found a lesion in my RTL in '03 that we believe to be the source of the seizures. Over the past 3 years, the seizures have reduced in number and severity quite a bit. They changed from happening frequently and a loss awareness to only happening while I'm sleeping to what they are now. Now, they occur one day out of the month at most and are very light - more like partial-partials, if there were such a catagory. I'll usually feel strange the whole day, but the auras themselves will come and go throughout the day but are usually light and short with the exception of one "big" one during which I'll panic and sometimes gag. That one will last a minute or so. Anyway, I haven't had one while sleeping in a long time, but last night, about 5 minutes into my sleep, I had one. My husband said that I reached for the water on the nightstand, moved around, etc, all the 'normal' things I used to do. No biggie, I suppose. It lasted about 40 seconds. After coming out of it, I got up and went to the bathroom and then laid back down without saying a word to him. About 2 minutes later, I asked him what I was doing before I went to sleep cuz I had no memory of what I did. He told me I had had a seizure and explained what I did during it and that I had just gotten up to go to the bathroom. None of that sounded familiar to me at all. In the past, if I had a seizure while sleeping, I always knew when I woke up - I could feel it physically. It also doesn't take me a long time to come out of them so not remembering getting up is a little weird. We kept talking about the seizure for about 15 minutes(I don't remember having this conversation with him) when suddenly I became really confused - kinda like my brain shut off. I started thinking I'd had 2 seizures and that I'd fallen asleep again. I had NO clue that I'd been talking to my husband just seconds before. It was like amnesia struck - I had no memory of the 15 minute conversation we'd just been having. He started retelling me everything, and in my confusion, I started thinking he was getting upset with me. Then, my head started to hurt like never before. I get a lot of headaches, but I've never had one like that and in the spot that it hurt. It hurt above my right eye and the back of my neck on the right side, but the strange spot was on the back of head on the right side where it starts to slope down to your neck. My head has never hurt there before - it was so bad. When I woke up this morning, my head didn't hurt, per se, but I could feel where the pain had been. You know how it feels when someone yanks your hair really hard? It leaves your scalp kinda sore? That's what that spot on the back of my head felt like this morning. Other than being tired, I've been fine today. I don't know if this sounds scary for anyone else, but the amnesia-like confusion was scary for both my husband and myself. It was like someone erased everything from one second to the next. Has this ever happened to anyone?

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Re: Has anyone experienced this w/ a seizure?

Submitted by graciefox on Thu, 2006-12-28 - 00:30
This may sound odd, but...do you get visions?

Re: Re: Has anyone experienced this w/ a seizure?

Submitted by RamblinJScott on Fri, 2006-12-29 - 09:44
I've had the visions along with the headaches and confusion. I call my visions 'mini-movies'. Sometimes they are flashbacks of people I knew or something that happened. Usually the flashbacks are of something bad that happened. Other than the flashback my visions are of people that I don't know just doing ordinary things. It is almost as if I am seeing things through their eyes.

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Submitted by graciefox on Tue, 2007-01-02 - 01:52
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