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Epilepsy or am I losing my mind?
Tue, 08/12/2014 - 10:29Hi, I didn't know where else to go or who to ask. I am 30 years old and currently 17 weeks pregnant. I started having these weird very strong deja-vu things when I was about 8 weeks pregnant. I can feel them coming on and it overtakes my body for a moment but I can still move and talk. My thighs get a little tingly into my stomach, my hands sweat, I get a weird queasy sensation and I get a very strong deja-vu of something that I know is not something I have ever experienced. It is super bizarre.
I asked my OBGYN about it and she said it has nothing to do with pregnancy. She referred me to a neurologist where I got a sleep deprived EEG and it came back clear. They now want me to do the 3-5 day in hospital video EEG test. I do not want to do this test.
I have a couple of questions:
I have now gone 13 days without "an attack" so I am thinking they are gone. How long have you gone between temporal lobe seizures?
How do I know if this is a panic attack or a seizure?
Any insight would be extremely appreciated!!!! Thank you!
Most of the things you posted
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2014-08-12 - 17:15
Most of the things you posted could be in different seizures. Some epileptics gat a deja vu and say tehy are warnings. The Deja Vu is a seizure in itself. As for the length of time between seizures it is hard to tell since each persons seizures are different even if the type of seizure is the same.The longer one goes without medications the stonger the seizures will be. I was being written up in class for day dreaming. I had been having wierd feeling and at times a twitch in my right hand. I said nothing about them. I had a grand mal seizure at school one day. Tests were done and my diagnosis was Grand Mal, Petite Mal and Focal motor epilepsy. The worst, the slightest and fevera. between. Those day dreams were absence seizures. Those wierd feeling in my had were focal seizures. The number of those things happening increased from 1 a month to several a week. I would suggest you get the VEEG done. It is in a monttering unit. They will be watching you and viewing you while you sleep the eeg will be constitent so they will see if there is any seizure activity while you sleep. I went thru a battery of tests back in 1963 all of them came up normal. SO the 20 EEG's were all normal the MRI of the 1960's showed nothing. The last test was another EEG. In that EEG I fell asleep and BINGO they found seizure actifity. The neurologist looked closer at the area the activity came from and they saw scared brain tissue caused from a hemmorage to the brain. Tests back in 2004-05 showed the same thing but Doc said a blow to my head between 6-8 was what caused the hemmorage. SO after testing they found out what caused my epilepsy. At times the activity is deeper in the brain and can't be picked up but that does not mean it isn't there. Epilepsy is more common than Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and strokes combined? Yet, little is said or writen about it, as many endure those symptoms in secret for fear of stigma.