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Experiencing Shaking or Convulsions or Something?
Sun, 07/20/2014 - 21:28Hi (I hope this is the right place to ask this),
During Thanksgiving break, I got into an argument with my dad. While the argument is irrelevant and was resolved within a few days, it left me in a bad emotional state. I was lying in bed crying and suddenly felt myself involuntarily convulsing every 10 seconds or so. (I've never actually counted so don't think too much of that number.) During the episode or whatever you'd like to call it, I could still think clearly. I just couldn't do much else, other than wait it out. It was kinda freaky, but I told myself it was some sort of panic attack and moved on with my life.
Since then, it has happened a few other times...
-Once was another time I was upset
-Once was when I was panicking about not being ready for an event on time
-Once when I was freaking out over not being able to sleep for like 48 hours (which is a separate issue)
-And today I had a minor one for no reason at all. I don't feel overly stressed or have reason to be upset. During today's I was able to look at my phone and try to Google what was going on while it was happening.
Anyway, I don't know what to classify this as... I can still think during them and the shakes just feel like weird involuntary thrusts/jolts or something. They vary in lengths of time; I think the bad ones last about... half an hour or so? They also vary in how "violent" the shakes are. Sometimes I'm able to "postpone" the next shake, but not for long. No fever.
I asked this question over Yahoo! Answers and someone said it might be a form of epilepsy. I haven't read too much about it yet because I'm busy with my online class, but I read something about how convulsions where you are still conscious can be an "aura" for a bigger one coming? Assuming that is talking about soon after the aura, I've never had a bigger one.
If you have any idea what is going on, please let me know. Thank you!
The things you posted could
Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2014-07-21 - 10:49
The things you posted could be seizures and yes a person can have seizures and still be concious. An aura is bascially a seizure in itself. With many people they are warniong for a larger or grand mal seizure which does happen eith that day or the next. This site can give you information on the different types of seizures. What you posted could be partial seizures of some kind. If your jerks or convulsing is in one area or starts in one area they could be focal seizures if a focal seizure starts it can generalize (cover the entire brain rather then 1 part) they can be convulsive and look like a grand mal. The main difference is in a focal seizure you are aware of everything happening around you but you can do nothing to stop it. In mine I hear what the people were saying. I saw the fear in their eyes and knew who said what. As for lasting 30 minutes yo uwere skirting close to needing to get a recovers drug. Your episodes have all except your last been brought on by srtess considering arguing. upset, panicking and freaking out are all stressful and stress and lack of sleep are triggers to seizures in many people. If I were you I would be trying to find a doctor and discuss this with him or I would be finding a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy to see what they think. If these were seizures they could get worse. My first seizures were absence seizures which look like day dreaming. My other seizures were wierd feeling in my hand or it would start to rise up (focal seizure). These went on for a about 2 years until I had a grand mal seizure. In other wordas they got worse in time As I posted up there ^^^^ I know what focal seizures can do if they generalize because many of them have when I had them. I hope this helps and you get the assistance you meed. . Please come back and let us know how things are going Joe