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What is going on???

Wed, 07/20/2016 - 16:20
Hello, back in november of 2014 i had a weird thing start occurring. I would have flashes of deja vu come over me like a wave, it would last about 30 seconds, i would have nausea,feel faint,sweat,heart palpitations,dizziness,get emotional (either sad or angry usually),feel the urge to have to run to the restroom,i would lose my balance and have to sit down, i can only remember about one or two of the deja vu flashes since i started having these. They occur most commonly in the shower (thats where the first one occurred as well) as well as they would occur in my sleep and i would awake to incredible fear. i got blood tests done,mri,eeg, and went to see a neurologist. All the tests came back normal and my neurologist said it was probably just from stress. A family member passed away a month before these started occurring so they thought it was connected in that way, but its been almost two years now and i am still having these weird deja vu flashes with all the symptoms. They come and go and the most ive had in a day was 3, i have been writing them all down to try and see if there is a pattern to them or if its caused by something im doing or thinking at the time but havent been able to make any correlations. I thought they had vanished because the last one i had was on october 21 of 2015 but then on the 15th of this month (July) another one occurred when i was in the shower and took me to my knees. I am very concerned as i finally got my drivers license and dont want one of these occurring while im driving. I am an 18 year old female, no family history of epilepsy other than an uncle that had it, but that was due to other conditions. i dont think this relates to it but i did have a severe migrane about 8 years ago that i was hospitalized for and given morphine and was very dehydrated.

Comments

Deja vu is definitely a

Submitted by Beth314 on Mon, 2016-08-01 - 18:14
Deja vu is definitely a symptom of some kind of epilepsy, I think it's temporal lobe E. Search this site for that.

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