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Greetings
Thu, 02/26/2015 - 03:05So, I am new here. I was diagnosed in 2009. I had a seizure in middle school, and then started having them regularly in 2009 after a gran mal on Thanksgiving. I had been havng weird feelings before that, which I now know were partial seizures. I just got a VNS device. I have not had a gran ma in over a year, almost two It think, but I still have tonic seizures. I have
1. The common confused ones.
2. Estatic episodes, or mystical epsidodes, like Dostoyevsky. I feel very aware of my own existence and the reality of death, and then I have this feeling of being on the verge of life and death. I feel as if I am entering the netherworld. There is a sense of the reality of judgement, death, heaven, hell, good, bad, etc. Life seems to flash before me, but in a disordered sort of way.
3. Visiual hallucinations
4. Possible myoclonic episodes. Have to talk to my doctor as these have develoed recently. I have vocal tics.
I also have hypergraphia. I may have Aspergers though I have not been diagnosed.
A bit about me other than the seizures. I like reading, writing, wine, a growing interest for fashion, good food, travel, hiking, religion (between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy), philosophy (ethics and metapysics and poltical philosophy). I also like aviation, having 60 hour towards my private pilot before I started having seizures. They say the first thing I asked when I woke from my VNS surgery is "Will I be able to fly again?"