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Twilight Zone Experience...To Seize Or Not To Seize...That Is The Question.

Mon, 07/03/2017 - 09:06
My name is Carol and I'm 46-years-old. I am a bit of a newbie where seizures are concerned. In fact, I haven't been diagnosed with them but I've had an extensive EEG that shows some form of activity going on. I haven't received the results yet but I am having very strange things happen to me physically and mentally. I first noticed something was wrong in the beginning of last month. I woke up in the morning and was looking around my room. I could not figure out where I was and I was looking at my door and thought it was a refrigerator. I remember thinking, "Why is a refrigerator here and, if this is my kitchen, why does it look so different? AND why is my bed there?" I then looked to the other side and saw one of my adaptors on the shelf. I picked it up and remember thinking..."I should know what this is but I don't know." Then I kind of snapped to and wondered why in the heck I was holding the adaptor in my hand. Almost every morning after, I woke up pushing my CPAP sleep machine on and off. The night before last, I had a severe experience. My mother had to help me to my bedroom. I wasn't able to speak clearly. I was slurring my words badly, extremely fatigued, confused, and unable to get my right side to move. However, when laying down, everything seemed far away and I had about 6 jump starts and screams before I finally fell asleep. While sleeping, I had HORRIBLE nightmares and dreamed a demon was chasing me. In my dream I ran down a hallway and into a room where I proceeded to shut the door and hold it shut from the demon. The next morning, I was still a little foggy but I was at least able to sit up and have my decaf coffee. Mom and I were talking and she asked me, "Did you use the bathroom around 2 a.m. this morning?" I looked at her and said I didn't think so. She then said, "I didn't think so either but when I went to use the bathroom, someone shut the door from the inside and refused to let me in." She then said, "I checked in my room and saw your dad still sleeping. You and your son were also asleep." I hadn't told her about my dream until AFTER she shared her experience. I don't honestly know if she was mistaken about me being asleep or not. I hope others won't think I'm being silly but can seizures cause things to happen outside the physical realm? I am a Christian and I do believe in Spiritual warfare. I also believe, when it comes to the mind, it's a very complex and awesome machine. However, I also believe that it could be something as simple as my mom being mistaken about where I was AND me not remembering any of this but manifesting the real incident as a dream that I was experiencing at the same time and wasn't in touch with the reality in that moment. Anyhow, I'm just wondering what your take is on this and if you've had similar experiences. Please feel free to comment. I'm just trying to find answers.

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Dear CarolWow! You've been

Submitted by mariet_5926de5df37df on Mon, 2017-07-03 - 11:55
Dear CarolWow! You've been having some traumatic events. I am fairly new to epilepsy as well and have fairly manageable seizures at present though the weirdest thing has been when my hands/arms have a mind of their own-can slap or try hit me. Reading up about  this is I believe to do with an interruption of the connecting 'wire' between the two halves of the brain. Years ago I had a friend who was travelling in Nepal. She had  a nightmare that she was being strangled, it woke her up and she was choking because there was a fire in the room caused by an anti-bug candle. Her mind was trying to wake her up. I am telling you all this because I don't personally think there are any demons messing with you, rather its seems from what you've said, you were sort of sleep walking and in a dream/nightmare that you were acting out.Whether these are seizures I am no expert. I am sure you'll probably doing this but the greatest tool in your arsenal to cope with all this and to get answers will be to write and log as much detail as you can. Just rough drawn columns will do, headed: date, time, mood, what doing that day, what doing before event, what happened etc. If you summarise events with abbreviations in the last column.With this you might begin to see trends, patterns and will have evidence to show any medics. It may also help you to feel you are able to do something proactive and gain some insight.Good luck

Similar experiences oh yea it

Submitted by whatitisepilepsy on Wed, 2017-07-19 - 19:16
Similar experiences oh yea it is very scary and  other people can not understand what it feels like. It is very hard to deal with this cause it seems so strange.  May I suggest talking to your doctor about a med called LaMICtal, If that dose not work, I went a whole year without arua or seizures taking a martial arts class. It was not so much what I learned, the over 100 jumping jack, stretching, working my body at least 5 days a week.  You have heard it before," use it or lose it". Exercise make sense. As soon as I stopped everything came back with in a week. Good luck, life with out seizures can be amazing, always try new things don't let it win.

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