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New to Epilepsy...so confused
Tue, 03/24/2015 - 20:31First off I am sorry if i sound a little dumb or too confused. This is all very new to me and after reading a few posts i have some questions i am hoping you guys can help me with.
In December i had my first seizure and it was a Grand Mal and i broke my clavicle in the process. Since then i have had an EEG and have been diagnosed with Epilepsy. After reading a few posts i have noticed a few symptoms others are having that i have had my whole life and am wondering if they are connected to my epilepsy.
Since i was a child i have had deja vu's often
I often will smell cigerette smoke though there is no smoking in the area
sometimes the ceiling slides or moves in circles while i am sitting still
I have large memory gaps in my life
I have never slept well and have always woken up multiple times during the night for as long as i can remember
sometimes i get the sensation i am falling to one side when i am sitting still
One of the things i am most concerned at this point is that i have been losing parts of my day. I have short memory loss during parts of my day but i can't tell if i had a seizure and usually i am alone. I was on Ambien for a long time and attributed memory loss to the meds but i am off it and i am still having memory loss especially right before i sleep. when i wake up i am unable to remember 1-2 hours of what happened before i went to bed. And lately i have felt like my brain is pixilating like my thoughts are not clear.
Could these be partial seizures? should i be tracking these to report to my dr?
Any help would be greatly appreciated i am new to all of this.
agree with jazz comment.
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2015-03-24 - 23:54
agree with jazz comment. Memory problems, fuzzy thoughts all sound like seizure or effects of seizures. I went through 3 primary care drs and one neurologist before a nurse friend said maybe memory stuff and feeling odd, aura and going somewhere else might be seizures and sent me to epileptologist which is a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy, who diagnosed me in 10 min. Took me a few years to get to him. It is very confusing during this process. Any info you can give doctor helps them. just get a calendar and write stuff down.