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Vertigo, vivid dreams and annoying twitching

Sun, 11/01/2015 - 17:51

Hi everyone, bit of a long post as I'm on potential seizure and possible related symptoms watch 

Ok so trying to find time to take up meditation as a lifestyle overhaul somehow got me thinking back to what I used to call vertigo in my late teens. I've not really experienced them regularly in over 10 years but I'm sitting on the fence about whether or not to tell the neurologist as its been so long. I used to get episodes (minutes) mostly in the evening where I'd feel like I was tilting forwards/sideways or rising upwards. Sometimes it would feel like the room was slowly spinning but not enough to make me sick or dizzy. I'd also get times where it felt like someone was shaking my eyeballs and my vision would be shaking from side to side, I'd imagine what an earthquake would see if it had vision. These never bothered me, except for the shaky eyes which were highly annoying. 

I've also been having quite a lot of vivid dreams lately, mostly in the mornings when I'm dozing, which isn't unusual as I've had them for as long as can remember but they do seem to be much more frequent. Telling my partner about them he told me he always knew when I'd had one as I my legs would twitch and jerk and after I'd woke up he'd hear the line "I had the strangest dream....". Again I'm on the fence about telling, although my mother who's officially diagnosed, sometimes has very vivid dreams she can recall hours later. I've researched a bit and found some interesting info and keen to hear if other people have weird random dreams that can feel disorientingly real.

The third thing, which I highly doubt is directly seizure related as nothing showed up on the EEG despite jerking a couple of times, is this irritiating muscle twitching and jerking. Mostly at night in my legs, started not long after my first blackout and has been driving me up the wall since. It feels like a pinprick for a couple of seconds and then I'll jerk/twitch, sometimes like an electric shock other times twitchy muscles. Thankfully it's calmed down a lot in the last month and at least I'm not having body shudders anymore. Does anyone else get anything like this and how do they manage it? I've tried relaxation, new exercise regime, diet changes and stuff from the pharmacy, no luck.

On a personal note has anyone noticed a change in their moods/personality since having epilepsy? I had a bit of an episode where I was euphoric and had a burst of energy for a few minutes followed by feeling drained and a bit off for part of the day and was told I looked pale and vague afterwards. I'm 99% sure it wasn't a potential seizure as post episode I only had trouble articulating that I wanted juice instead of tea and didn't feel sleepy. It's unnerved me as before my breakdown I used to get these amazing moods for a couple of days where I was elated, full of energy and just generally feeling awesome. As much I enjoyed them I do not want the depressing crash that came after or the other mood/emotional changes that happened with them. It's thrown a curveball regarding my opinion of what's been going on with me since June and also what may have been happening way back then. Really feel sorry for my neurologist at the moment, hopefully she likes a challenge!

Thanks again, I always appreciate people taking the time to answer my many questions! 

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