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Maybe having seizures.
Sat, 06/28/2014 - 13:28Since I was around 12, now 14, these weird spells happen.
First, usually completely randomly, I get a feeling like my arms go numb and my chest tightens a bit; not uncomfortably, and it's not like I can't breathe. It's just a bit tighter, as though the muscles in my ribs or something are clenching. This usually, but doesn't always happen. My stomach sometimes bottoms out. Sometimes this fades after a few seconds, sometimes goes on for minutes, and sometimes leads to my hands and upper arms convulsing. The convulsions do not spread, though when I am laying down, often my legs come up to my chest, not as part of the seizure. They are repeated. I get the aura, then a convulsion, then the aura, then a convulsion. This usually only goes on for 1-2 minutes.
I have complete consciousness during these events. During auras, but not convulsions, I can talk and go about normally.
Only for maybe 3 months, and this has made me think I don't have epilepsy, when I think about having a seizure, I get the same feeling - kinda. It's the numb arms, but no chest or stomach. It doesn't make me feel like I'm going to have a seizure, but it's the same feeling I get before I have seizures. Sorta like that "walks like a duck, talks like a duck, but it's not a duck" saying. (That is a saying, right?) I'm wondering if it's just a memory response.
- Mac
Welcome Mac The old saying is
Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2014-06-28 - 15:10
Welcome Mac The old saying is "If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it IS a duck" Now you posted things that happen in your seizures and are wondering if some other things that happen could also be seizures. Depending on the type of epilepsy you have all of thoise things could be seizures. I have 3 different types of epilepsy. Grand mal, Petite mal and focal motor epilepsy. My diagnosis was before they came out with types of epilepsy. So according to my diagnosis I have the worst type of seizure, the slightest type of seizure and several other seizures that can land between them. A focal seizure starts in one part of the brain which controlls a part of your body. With me mine start with my right hand. It feels wierd or numb. At times it rises up. If it stops then it generalizes some (the electrical imoulses covered more then the area it started in but not the entire brain. If it ever rose to shoulder high I wouls go down ina convulsion which looked exactly like a grand mal but the difference would be I could see, hear amd understand everything going on around me. I just had no control of anything happening and I could not stop it Only for maybe 3 months, and this has made me think I don't have epilepsy In some seizures people hear things while others hear or taste something. Those would be auras which are seizures in themselves. What is happening to your stomach and chest are also in seizures. I have complete consciousness during these events. During auras, but not convulsions, I can talk and go about normally. In my focal seizures all i get is a weird or numb feeling in my hand and I can't do anything with it for a few seconds. So my conversation can and they do go on. If at work I complete the input on the call I was taking and nothing is known about the seizure. I can have one in a crowd of people and it lasts a few seconds. I can respond to peoples questions or finish the sentence I was making and people would not think about it being a seizure. So YES what you postes could all have been seizure of one kind or another. If yo uare having them now and are taking medication then you might want to check with your neurologist especially if you are a teen and have started growing. I grew 8-10 inches in 9-12 months. I went from 4'8" to 5'6" so that change did need dosage adjustments. If you don't have a neurologist then by all means talk to your general practioner and tell him what you have experiances. Convulsions in a arm or leg does lead one to believe yo might have epilepsy and it does need to be checked out. If you are experiancing these and they aren't checked out then they can increase in numbers and get longer and worse. You see when I was 12-13 I had a twitch in my arm now and then. I was also being written up for day dreaming in class. well I didn't say anything about those twitches and the day dreaming was normal for a kid. Those twitches were focal seizures. Those day dreams were absence seizures (petite mal) By not connetcing them and saying something about what I had noticed they grew larger and more profound. The time that we knew it was epilepsy was when I had the grand mal seizure. I hope this helps and you get the assistance you need Joe