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also a newbi

Wed, 06/28/2006 - 00:10
hey everyone i had a granmal 2 yrs ago,it all started when i was working out of town.iwas having what icall dejavu..something that was said or done would make me almost paralized i would be standing ,walking around, my heart would beat out of my chest.everything would going fast ,like i was in a tunnel feeling...anyway 3days of this finally going home ,my girl was driving ,luckly,the radio was playing a song come on ,dejavew set in ,i was able to turn the radio off ,my girl turned it back on ,i smacked her hand and went shhhh .i remember rambling then nothing.woke up few hours later at a rest stop past out again this is wut she said happened..woke up at the hospital my knee was sore my mouth was sore ,,bit my tongue pretty bad soiled my self....let go few hours later sent home.days after had many seizures went to the doctors admiitted mespent 8 days or more ,poked and proded found no explaination,many test later put on numerous meds some worked some worse.currentllyon lamictal phenibarb ,doctors tried saying it was a panic attack,

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Re: also a newbi

Submitted by WendyBendy on Wed, 2006-06-28 - 14:07
That was definatley seizures. had those dejavu feelings alot when I was little but I never told anybody because I didn't know to. It never lasted long but I may have 20 or 30 a day sometimes. I now have tonic clonics and partials. I recently had an incident at the hospital like yours. My husband and I were having a lot of problems and I was at my moms house. He called me and somehow I got really upset. We hung up and I started to seize. He came over there and took me to the doctor. They sent me to the ER. The doctor on call (whoever that was) told me it was not a seizre because I did not soil myself or lose consiousness....so he said it was a panic attack. I know how seizures feel and I know it was one. It sounds like the same kind of situation with you. Good luck, friend. I'm here for you.

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