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I feel like I'm going nuts!

Sat, 08/29/2015 - 08:29

Hello Everyone, I hope I've posted this in the right place, was just looking for some advice.

Ever since I was little I always had this strange feeling come over me like a de ja vu , when i was younger that feeling sometimes id find funny and I'd laugh at me getting it, My mum just said it's just one of those things. I always remember if i smelt sugar puff cereal it would make me get this feeling or sometimes id just imagine the smell and id get it. It sounds bizarre I know frown

When I was about 5 I woke up one morning swung my legs out of bed to get up and fell straight on the floor i was in hospital for 2 weeks, they said it was irritable hip. I would often sleep walk as a child. Then when I was 7 I was at karate and we was laid on the floor doing exercises and I fell asleep, I cant remember this but my parents said the sensei tried nudging me with his foot and I wouldn't respond, They left me while they carried on with the class and I came round few mins later. When I was 17 I was at my friends house when I suddenly got the same de je vu feeling but this time it didn't make me feel happy with it , it was very strong and next thing i knew my friend was splashing water on me saying i fainted. I didn't go to the doctors or anything just figured it was one of those things. Throughout school I would fall asleep in class , be sent out of the room for not paying attention and listening, it was very frustrating because I wasn't doing it purposely, was always on the special needs registers. All these feelings seemed to go till I got pregnant at the age of 19, I had this feeling and passed out twice during the pregnancy which I think isn't a worry given many faint when pregnant, but this is not like a going light headed feeling then fainting its like i go paralyzed before i faint its so hard to explain. I was diagnosed with Cholostasis while pregnant and during the birth I was in and out of awareness and don't remember much of the 24 hr labor. Ever since then I get random attacks ill suddenly feel like I've been taken from where I was and have no idea how I got there , I'll be in the middle of making something in a 3D modeling program and totally forget how to use it, what i was doing on it everything, then comes the Dejavu feeling everything around me feels fuzzy, then I will either need to go to the toilet, ill feel like i need to be sick or that i need to go to the toilet, or I will have a very vivid flash back memory of anything I've done before even as a young child the memory is as clear as day, i feel, smell , taste everything in that memory it forces me to the floor , i don't fall i just feel pulled down, I am awake during all this but not aware of anything happening around me except the vivid memory.Which i cant remember at all once its over. I wake up in the night sometimes 3 times with the same feeling and ill see flashing lights or sometimes purple dots all over my room, I will rub my eyes but they're still there, sometimes I'll see cracks all over my wall and they're so vivid. I still do karate and enter championships I consider my self fit and healthy. When I phoned the doctors after weeks of these attacks happening 3 - 7 times a day the receptionist asked me , what's your house number I said I couldn't remember so I randomly guessed a few numbers which was wrong, I got off the phone and I felt so taken back by the fact i forgot the number I went downstairs totally forgot my house numbers in huge numbers on the glass above my house door, I had to get a letter to see my house number and it wasn't like a Oh yeah of course it's that it was new information to me. I haven't forgotten it since but I have had days where I don't know if its 2014 or 2015 , if my son is 5 or 6. The next day i will remember everything these memory losses only last few hours. But It's very scary and made me take all these feelings more seriously. I have had a MRI which showed nothing wrong. I saw a neurologist that said it could be Anxiety or it could be Epilepsy , I'm sick of the doctors saying I'm depressed or anxious just because I'm a single parent to two children. I'm depressed because of having these random things that strike at any moment, at karate , in the middle of town, at home, anywhere. The neurologist has done a ECG I don't know the results from that yet and also requested a EEG which can take up to 8 weeks to come back. My family just think it's in my head there's nothing wrong. I feel so alone in this like I'm feeling all these things and going through it all only for everyone around me to not believe me. I really don't know what's wrong with me but there's something.

I'm generally a happy healthy now 30 year old mum to two children but for the past 10 years coping with this ,losing jobs over it ,its beginning to take its toll, I'm worried if my EEG comes back normal will I be just left to carry on like this. When this first started happening worse 10 years ago the doctors basically said you're depressed take these pills, I took them and they made me worse! I feel like I'm in a bubble. I also keep putting things in weird places and I muddle my words up ALOT. I find the tin foil in the fridge , I put things where I always put in the same place in random places and have no memory of me putting them there. I am very unorganized person with remembering to do things, I always have been the same way since being a child,  I am also very clumsy, I'd trip over a chalk line, and have bad balance , could never get the hang of balancing in karate !

I'm sorry for the long post and hope it makes sense, I just feel at such a loss with no real support. 

Comments

Sorry don't know what I'm

Submitted by justbe122@yahoo.com on Mon, 2015-08-31 - 13:22
Sorry don't know what I'm doing.

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