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Suspicions of TLE Growing...

Sat, 06/20/2015 - 05:31

Hello, some time ago around when i registered, i inquired about a similar experience to what just happened to me tonight which is leading me to believe i may indeed have TLE or something similar. I doubt any of you remember but I asked about an incident where i woke up and was disoriented, couldnt really talk, was stumbling around, etc etc. Most who replied to my post didnt think it was epilepsy or a seizure but more than likely just a panic attack or something of the sort. Well, im here posting again inquiring about a similar experience but at the same time quite a different one. Its strange because today i just had my first eeg in 3 years (2nd one in total now). The rest of the day seemed to go fine after my eeg yesterday morning but then the strange experience just happened a few hours ago when i woke up to the weird experience. Its hard to really recall all of what happened and the events that led up to it but ill try to just keep it short. I was sleeping normally and all of a sudden I started panicking (just like the other experience i asked about) and when i woke up I looked arond and had this HUGE sense of fear that i dont think ive really had to that extent before. Also, for a couple seconds or so, everything that i looked at appeared larger. I looked around at the tv, the couch, multiple different nearby objects and they all looked very very large to me. this was extremely frightening and I kept panicking for a little more but then it finally died down and this is where im at now, posting on here. I should note that i felt a strange feeling inside my head when ths happened as well. Something to also keep in mind is that, maybe about a month ago or a little less, I had another one of those similar experiences, I just never posted about that one and it wasnt quite the same as the one Ive just experienced. Whats different about this one that happened tonight is the fact that there were alot more "weird" type things involved like the objects seeming very large and hallucination type symptoms. The last one was just that I panicked and had a huge sense of unreality and depersonalization/derealization. What do you guys think?

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