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New to the site. possible TLE?
Thu, 09/04/2014 - 01:46hi, im new to the site and i dont know much about epilepsy in general other than some things ive read online. anyways, i have a question about temporal lobe epilepsy that i hope you guys can answer for me. but first of all, a little bit about me and why i started researching epilepsy anyways; about 2 and a half years ago or so maybe longer, i had an intense "bad trip" on a drug in which i experienced things that were totally abnormal to what a normal high shouldve been like. then, about a month later after that i woke up one day feeling very unusual and started panicking and felt "not right". later that day i looked up my symptoms on google to come across a disorder called "depersonalization disorder" which is also comorbid along with "derealization", and ive had intense symptoms ever since and some of them even match up with TLE. now onto my question, just recently i saw a post on these forums where someone mentioned that one of their symptoms from the temporal lobe epilepsy is a sudden strong feeling that something bad is going to happen to one of their family members and that they sort of "see it happening but not really" at the same time. when i saw that it really caught my attention because i recently experienced something just like this where all of the sudden i expereinced a very itnense feeling of impending doom or that something bad was happening or going to happen to my mom or as if somethign was "hanging over my head" like clouding my life, like something terrible was invading my life. very very hard to explain but very very intense and real feeling. also, another thing that recently happened to me that really made me wonder about things is when i was drinking with a few friends at a park one night and i fell asleep on a park table/bench after about only 1 shot of vodka. then a couple minutes later out of nowhere i suddenly woke up withou even thinking first and was automatically panicking. i stood up and couldnt see quite right and i was stumbling around, was dizzy, and things seemed very unclear and distant and one of my friends even said that i seemed incoherent and considered even taking me to the hospital. does any of this sound like possible temporal lobe epilepsy? also one more thing i should note is that in around spring 2012 id say, i had an eeg which on the offical report/paper that i received in the mail, said that i had "seizure activity" in my left temporal lobe i believe. however, the doctors i talked to said that they didnt consider it to be epilepsy and that it was just a "normal variant". anyways, im done with this, sorry for the long post but please do tell me your thoughts. -thanks, tom
So have you recently talked
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2014-09-04 - 07:52
So have you recently talked to your doctor about these experiences? This needs follow up with a person who listens and is qualified to treat you (and make referrals). If you don't have a record of these events, start recording them. It also sounds like you need to avoid drugs and alcohol, they may lower any seizure threshold you have. Let people know how it goes.