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New to Simple Partial Seizures
Tue, 05/12/2015 - 20:51Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
Hello, I don't know if I'm posting in the correct place but I'm seeking some help.
this past weekend I was out with my mother and saw two girls from my teenage years. later that night as I was recounting the event to my boyfriend, I felt an intense sensation of deja vu wash over me accompanied by an indescriindescribable feeling of dread and hhopelessness. My vision felt funneled and I had trouble speaking, although I was completely aware of my actions. then I felt a rush of heat and I was dripping in sweat. it only lasted about a minute and then I was exhauexhausted. afterwards I felt as though I had a dark aura following me, and it felt like eveverything I was experiencing had happened before. it felt like a constant state of deja vu. it felt like my brain would focus in on an object, and try to attach a memory to it. I started having a difficult time discerning if my memories were real, or if they happened in a dream and I felt detached from my body. I was aware of my actions, but it felt like I was doing things from someone else's perspective. these feelings continued on all day Saturday, and I had three more episodes of overwhelming deja vu followed by grief and sweating. I was afraid to leave my home for fear of triggering deja vu and having another episode. all day I had an intense headache and the onlyway I can describe it is, I feltfelt a dark aura, and I was scared. then on Sunday I had trouble recalling my mother in laws face, and I see her everyday. I smelled detergent, got very sick and started crying. when I tried to look up my symptoms, other people described my exact feelings and said it was a simple partial seizuseizure. I have always experienced intense deja vu, at least once a month it stops me in my tracks, but never before have I experienced days of constant deja vu, and when I went to work on Monday, I experienced the opposite, j'aime vu. everything seemed new, unfamiliar and like I wasn't attached to myself.
I have no history of epilepsy in my family and I don't know if I experienced a panic attack or a simple partial seizure, but I'm very scared and I made an appointment with my doctor.
any advice, please?
Start with your primary
Submitted by nia@prodigyprivate.com on Thu, 2015-05-14 - 21:15
Start with your primary doctor. Only they can help tell you what is going on. An epilepsy diagnosis is kind of a process of elimination project. Your primary doctor can start with basic blood tests to make sure you don't have a vitamin deficiency, or a blood sugar issue, or a whole list of things much more common than seizures. No reason to panic yet. If it is simple partial seizures, they can be more manageable simply once you know what they are, and most people tolerate medication just fine.