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those crazy auras

Thu, 05/04/2006 - 14:17
just curious- what kind auras preceed your seizures. i have been blessed with numbing dejavu then music that overtakes my mind until i wake on the floor, ambulance, er, ect.... I've heard guns n roses, metallica, some weird band my 5 year old listens to,ect.just wondering- am i marching to the beat of a different drum????lol

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Re: those crazy auras

Submitted by seizuregirl on Sat, 2006-05-06 - 12:39
Wow...missdee..i'd like to have an aura that comes with music. LOL Well, mine come as a feeling of fear. I could be talking to someone then suddenly stop usually clutching to my shirt and suddenly start to have a breathing problem. My heart would be accelerating...the fear overwhelms me. And if this one aura would actually follow into a big seizure then my vision gets distorted before I pass out. Also, in the beginning of my aura stage I always seem to find myself opening and closing the palm of my hand and gliding the my left arm to my right as if I'm cold. Usually this is how it is for me, but then once in a while it would be different as in having this dejavu feeling or have this feeling that I'm not familiar with my surroundings when I should. You know what? I find it odd that most of my auras/seizure usually wind up when I'm in the kitchen. I dunno why that is...... Seizuregirl "Life is what you make of it"

Re: those crazy auras

Submitted by Gina Marie on Mon, 2006-05-08 - 09:48
Oh, I want music too! Unfortunately, I usually start with color, normally the color orange. Everything comes in shades of orange, imagine what you're looking at, depth, shape, everything normal, except everything is orange. Then lines start streaking across. This can last a long time before a seizure or stop at that. The room starts getting funky and can't make up it's mind if it's coming or going, near or far away, like looking through a tunnel. My stomach will have this feeling, my heart feels like it's slowing down and my breathing feels like it's stopping and I get dizzy. Then, voila! I wake up somewhere, floor, across a desk once, chair, ambulance, wherever. One time (I say one because I nolonger am driving) I had a seizure happen while driving, not big but very scary, and the cars coming in the opposite lane towards me suddenly were going backwards and farther away. It was the most fascinating thing to watch because logically I knew they weren't doing that, weren't suppose to be doing that and that something was wrong, but my mind was still trying on some level to make logic of it.

Re: those crazy auras

Submitted by EPIL95 on Fri, 2006-05-12 - 15:43
I feel an aura come over me like my soul is shrinking in from my body. I start breathing hard, panick attack thinking please don't progress any further and it has for a long time. When it does I get the aura, then my jaw cluthes, I am wide awake and fully aware of what is going on. Now that i think about it I have a taste in my mouth like when you bite down on tinfoil. anyways, because I can always feel them coming on I will lay down on the floor on my side and then I just shake from my shoulders up. It seems like an eternity but is over in seconds and afterward I have to lay there for atleast 5minutes as I am exhausted and my mouth is limp and I just breathe. I feel like I am gasping for air. then it is over. I am really scared to have a full one again.

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