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Am I having seizures? No idea.

Fri, 01/15/2016 - 23:22

Hey all, found this while researching online. Typing on my phone so sorry for grammar. I'm trying to decide if I should see a neuro, and this isn't something I discuss with family or friends.

Since as long as I recall I was always extremely forgetful, would get memories/thoughts confused, lose every thing I ever owned and wandered around not sure how I got there. In college two professors pointed out I should seek counseling, because I'd go blank in class while speaking and they felt my work and how I communicated didn't match up properly.

I am a terrible driver - at one point I had my license suspended for too many points -only one real speeding ticket- but I kept getting crazy moving violations like passing school busses (didn't realize I had I'd NEVER do that) or running signs or lights with no recollection.

Sometimes mid sentence I go blank, and I can't recall basic words - especially names , dates, and places. Sometimes I can't recognize someone I see daily, or suddenly don't know their name. I lose everything (at least 10 phones in my lifetime) and have become obsessed with "not forgetting" things when I have to go somewhere. I re-read emails at work and find words I don't recall typing that don't make sense. It's all getting worse the older I get, obv with age, and it's so bad now I sold my car and take public transit. I have so many close cars while driving I began to feel guilty and nervous about it. A couple times while driving, i temporarily forgot how to drive a car or know what side of the road to drive on at all.

The only medical symptoms I have worth noting is I get motion sickness VERY easily (got so much worse in my 20s) and I can't go to movie theaters without vommitting for hours afterwards - I leave feeling spacey, disconnected, and dreadfully ill. Sometimes I get severe nausea for no reason, and it can last a few minutes or hours.

Medical history included meningitis when I was a child, I did suffer from depression until I went to college (it was more environmentally caused then anything) but nowadays I 100% feel depression and anxiety free. No head injuries. I've had mono with one relapse and CMV as a kid.

With family, my mom had seizures until she had my sister age 21, but insists they told her that it was from a head injury as a child. She also got medical care in a backwards European country while she was raised in a convent.. So that diagnosis is questionable. She also has some very similar symptoms she won't admit to.

I know doctors won't be responding to this, instead, I want to hear if people have similar symptoms. I've seen doctors already and have been diagnosed with ADD, panic disorders, learning disabilities. One well known authored psych even asked me if my boyfriend and I have been fighting lately, implying I was creating symptoms that weren't there. I also tested high for my IQ and ruled out ADD and any learning disabilities so those doctors were confirmed wrong. However, deep down I feel like doctors see I'm functional and well spoken so they assume it's emotional, especially when I get visibly upset whenever I talk about it. One dr did ask me about epilepsy in my family and is the one who first told me it could be possible.

I'm just afraid of finding out I have something wrong and also finding out I don't. Any feedback would help. Taking a shot here. Ask me any questions, I'm desperate to connect on this.

-m

Comments

Many of the things you posted

Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2016-01-16 - 12:18
Many of the things you posted could be seizures. I was one of the best students in class yet the teachers were writing me up for daydreaming in class. After having a grand mal seizure and testing the diagnosis was grand mal petite mal and focal motor epilepsy. That diagnosis was made in the mid 1960's. Petite mal seizures today are absence seizures. It looks like the person in them is in a day dream which your professors were or might have been saying. I saw everything and heard everything I just couldn't respond. A loss if time was in a seizure like that, That loss could be minutes but are also seconds. Anybody at any age can have epilepsy. Epilepsy does not discriminate. The longer a person goes without treatment the more frequent and stronger the seizures will become. By the way if they told your mother it was due to a head injury is could very well be. My diagnosis was scared brain tissue before or after birth. Doc did the same testing to see if there was a procedure that could stop all of my seizures. His diagnosis was close. scared brain tissue in the left lobes of my brain caused by a hemorrhage to the brain. Followed in a visit when I asked questions. It was between the age of 6-8. It would have taken a blow to my head that would have knocked me out even if it were seconds. At the ripe old age of 7 I had such a blow. At the hospital they were more worried about the gash in my cheek and tongue and 4 teeth knocked out and there were no cat scans on the 1950's. You do need to discuss this with a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy. Show him this post and just tell him everything you can remember. Answer his questions. I hope this helps and you get the assistance you need Good luck Joe

Get tested its the only way

Submitted by 9liv3cat on Tue, 2016-06-21 - 23:29
Get tested its the only way to actually know.

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