partial seizures, migraines, or panic attack?

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I was put on lamictal for one month, today is the second month I would be taking it. I was prescribed 25mg for 2 weeks then 50 mg for 2 weeks.

I wasn't able to pick up my presction and I was out for 3 days. One the last day (yesterday) I hadn't taken it for 3 days.

I was taking a walk with my brother through my neighborhood. then, out of no where all of a sudden I felt extremely strange. it first started with extreme vertigo and I was very dizzy. everything around me was spinning. I felt like I was dissociated, not attached to my body and nothing was real. I've taken dissociate drugs before and I had the exact same feeling as this was happening. I felt like everything around me was not real, I was not real and it felt like a dream or a movie. then I started getting fuzzy vision and everything looked like claymation basically. then I knew something was dry wrong. I grabbed my brother and fell again and told him something was very very wrong and I knew something bad was happening. I got a rining in my ear and pins and needles that lasted for the entire time

we finally got home from the walk and I layed on the couch immediately and my heart felt like it was beating extremely fast but it wasn't. I was shaking and my legs were twitching uncontrollably. I keep thinking something terrible was going to happen any second and I wished for it to get it over with. I can't describe the feeling but it was nothing I've ever felt, I felt completely out or reality. my stomach started hurting terribly and I became extremely nauseous. I felt a rising feeling I my stomach. then out of no where I had to pee extremely bad. I was afraid to get up and couldn't walk anyway. then I had the worse headache I've ever felt, tension and pressure on the front of my head and my jaw. I couldn't stop clenching my teeth.

i called my dad while I was laying Down and I couldn't make any sense to him because I couldn't form sentences and I couldn't think of the words to say.

after I felt not dissociated nd back in reality, about 50 minutes later, I still had a terrible headache and felt weird mentally, anxious and scared as well as drained and exhausted. I couldn't sleep at all that night.

im guessing it was a seizure from not taking my lamictal, it seems like the symptoms of a simple partial seizure more than a panic attack, as I had no trigger for it and have never experience a panic attack even close to what I felt. I do not have a history of seizures and my family doesn't, I take lamictal for bipolar.

i can't figure out what it might be and I'm still very anxious about having another one of these "seizures"

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What you have posted could be

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2014-05-13 - 09:43

What you have posted could be seizures and yes partial seizures do fit the systoms. A person can come up with epilepsy at any time in their lives and not have a family history of seizures or epilepsy. I know I was the first in my family. A seizure medication can be used for bi polar also. Many medications for many things can be used for other things not associated to them. But you do need to be checked out by a specialist who can answer your questions. I state that because a medication to stop seizures can cause them also which is why doctors ease a person onto a medication. If this was a seizure then you could have been near status which is basically one seizure after another. Hospitals have rescue medications that can be used to get you out. I know that becasue I have a RX for clusters of seizures which can also go into status. If I have more then 2 seizures back to back I take it and the back to back seizures stop. To tell you how strong that medication is 1 tablet is a G and not a MG. The only way to be sure they are seizures is to have an appointment with a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy. If you have a neurologist for your bipolar then your EEG could have seizure activity on it and your neurologist could show your EEG to a specialist. If they see abnormalities they migh know where the activity comes from. With that information both doctors could come up with medications that will work for both bipolar and epilepsy. Next time you are out of medication please call your doctor because a lot of doctors have medications in their office that they can give out to people in need. I know Doc changed my nedication a couple of days after I picked up a 3 months supply. I told him what had happened and gave the medications to him which he gave to 2 different clients that needed it. I have also called when I needed a few days of medication before I could pick mine up because I wouldn't get my check for a week or so. If yo uhave a good relationship things like that can happen and it does help other people. I hope this helps and you get the assistance you need Joe

What you have posted could be seizures and yes partial seizures do fit the systoms. A person can come up with epilepsy at any time in their lives and not have a family history of seizures or epilepsy. I know I was the first in my family. A seizure medication can be used for bi polar also. Many medications for many things can be used for other things not associated to them. But you do need to be checked out by a specialist who can answer your questions. I state that because a medication to stop seizures can cause them also which is why doctors ease a person onto a medication. If this was a seizure then you could have been near status which is basically one seizure after another. Hospitals have rescue medications that can be used to get you out. I know that becasue I have a RX for clusters of seizures which can also go into status. If I have more then 2 seizures back to back I take it and  the back to back seizures stop. To tell you how strong that medication is 1 tablet is a G and not a MG.   The only way to be sure they are seizures is to have an appointment with a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy. If you have a neurologist for your bipolar then your EEG could have seizure activity on it and your neurologist could show your EEG to a specialist. If they see abnormalities they migh know where the activity comes from. With that information both doctors could come up with medications that will work for both bipolar and epilepsy. Next time you are out of medication please call your doctor because a lot of doctors have medications in their office that they can give out to people in need. I know Doc changed my nedication a couple of days after I picked up a 3 months supply. I told him what had happened and gave the medications to him which he gave to 2 different clients that needed it. I have also called when I needed a few days of medication before I could pick mine up because I wouldn't get my check for a week or so. If yo uhave a good relationship things like that can happen and it does help other people. I hope this helps and you get the assistance you need Joe

What you have posted could be seizures and yes partial seizures do fit the systoms. A person can come up with epilepsy at any time in their lives and not have a family history of seizures or epilepsy. I know I was the first in my family. A seizure medication can be used for bi polar also. Many medications for many things can be used for other things not associated to them. But you do need to be checked out by a specialist who can answer your questions. I state that because a medication to stop seizures can cause them also which is why doctors ease a person onto a medication. If this was a seizure then you could have been near status which is basically one seizure after another. Hospitals have rescue medications that can be used to get you out. I know that becasue I have a RX for clusters of seizures which can also go into status. If I have more then 2 seizures back to back I take it and the back to back seizures stop. To tell you how strong that medication is 1 tablet is a G and not a MG. The only way to be sure they are seizures is to have an appointment with a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy. If you have a neurologist for your bipolar then your EEG could have seizure activity on it and your neurologist could show your EEG to a specialist. If they see abnormalities they migh know where the activity comes from. With that information both doctors could come up with medications that will work for both bipolar and epilepsy. Next time you are out of medication please call your doctor because a lot of doctors have medications in their office that they can give out to people in need. I know Doc changed my nedication a couple of days after I picked up a 3 months supply. I told him what had happened and gave the medications to him which he gave to 2 different clients that needed it. I have also called when I needed a few days of medication before I could pick mine up because I wouldn't get my check for a week or so. If yo uhave a good relationship things like that can happen and it does help other people. I hope this helps and you get the assistance you need Joe

partial seizures, migraines, or panic attack?

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What you have posted could be

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2014-05-13 - 09:43

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