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need feedback please!
Sun, 12/17/2006 - 18:51I have always had events that involve sensory/psychic sequalae. Deja-vu, jamais-vu, smell of dead mouse, spiritual epiphany, sheer terror etc...partial seizure stuff. But this month, I now have had a few times where I got this ringing in my ear accompanied by jerks. First my left ear will get this soft ringing, then it grows louder so loud I can't hear out of that ear, than softer and eventually stops. Immediately after it stops ringing my arm flys up in the air or my left leg jerks upward about a foot. Then right after I'm done with the limb jerks, I am a bit disoriented, usually have to spend a minute figuring out what it was that I was doing. but then I am fine. is this a complex partial seizure? should I let my neurologist know that this is a new thing for me? also, I read that myoclonic seizures happen on both sides of the body, mine only happen on the left? could it still be a myoclonic jerk?
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Re: Re: need feedback please!
Submitted by wldhrt13 on Mon, 2006-12-18 - 12:06
hey sol,
thanks for replying. after reading the links you sent I am pretty sure now that they are still only simple partial. I got disoriented afterward but I should have clarified that better. When I say disoriented I meant just that, whatever I was doing/oriented to at the time, got interrupted and I had to try and remember, "what am I looking up on the internet again?" or "what page did I just read?" or "where am I driving to again?" it all comes back to me within a minute or so. exactly the same kind of feeling which I call "senior moments"...where you walk into the kitchen to get something to eat and you get there and forget what the heck you went in there for. it's the same exact phenomenon only I was just sitting there actively looking up something on the internet, got the ringing in my ear, my left thumb jerked, left arm, left leg. and when I was all done jerking that's when I was like, "wtf was I just doing again?" if that clarifies it any better...
Hiya.. Glad I was able to be
Submitted by solis on Mon, 2006-12-18 - 22:34
Hiya..
Glad I was able to be of some help.
I got a laugh at your quote also.
take care,
~sol
Re: need feedback please!
Submitted by solis on Mon, 2006-12-18 - 02:49
Hi.. Let me try to help you. The initial discription is, as I'm sure you know, most definitely, that of simple partial seizures: http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial.html. And as you haven't indicated a loss in awareness despite the seizure change, I'd be willing to bet you are still within the simple partial range. (there are many types, as the link above shows) Aside from awareness remaining, the best way to differentiate between simple partials and myoclonic seizures is the length of time they last. Myoclonic Seizures http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_myoclonic.html Yet, of note to me, was your feelings of being dioriented, since as you guessed, that does suggests you may have had a complex partial seizure. http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_complexpartial.html As you will read, since there is generally no memory of complex partials but we may suddenly find ourselves confused.. in effect dealing with the 'after effect' of the seizure. Moreover, if your seizures have always been partials.. chances are good any change will remain within the partial range. (Myoclonic seizures are a generalized seizure type.) Yes please be sure to let your neurologist know. Wishing you well... ~sol