Over the past 15 years, I have had 3 similiar episodes as follows:

• I get a flashing light way over to the side of my left eye.  It is accomanied by a terrible, not-right feeling.  It is the worst feeling I've ever experienced.  It continues, starting with slow flashes turning to ever-quicker flashes until all I can see everywhere are flashing stars of light (this can be 20 - 30ish minutes??).  Pure extended torment.  My eyelids start twitching in time with the flashes.  When the flashing stars overtake my entire vision, I pass out and have a "grand mal" or secondary generalized seizure.  All three instances occurred after physical trauma (roller coaster, car accident, then car accident & broken arm).  A fourth time I had the flashing lights for at least 30 if not 40 minutes without a seizure.  In this case, my sister took me to an emergency care clinic at my insistance & they injected me with a sedative.  I then slept the remainder of the day.  When I was around 10 or 12 (can't remember exactly), I started having the flashing lights, but usually only for a few minutes (2 - 10 maybe?), then would have tunnel vision for a couple of hours.  This happened a few times a year, but never with an ensuing seizure.  Sometimes my head hurt, sometimes not.
• I now take Effezor for anxiety & started taking Lamictal two years ago.  Since beginning Lamictal, I have frequent "auras" or maybe simple-partial seizures???  This never happened before.  I do not see flashing lights (thank God), but when they occur, they last a few seconds to a couple of minutes & result in me having to curl up.  They will continue over and over again that day until I finally take a nap or go to sleep.  Often times they come on when I'm eating or drinking something.  It's awful.  I get this feeling like I'm outside my reality looking in on "normal" reality which looks quite unfamiliar to me.  I usually only see singular objects from my "normal" reality & when I try to focus these objects, I get a nagging, fuzzy feeling that I've just been somewhere, just had a substantial experience that I can't quite put my finger on.  At that point (of trying hard to remember or pinpoint this feeling), my blood "runs cold", I get nauseous & a really horrible "icky" feeling  in my stomach (but not physical).  It makes my skin crawl & I feel very frightened and overwhelmed & have to curl up and ovoid stimulation, less it occur again immediately.  I wonder if I'm remembering a dream or an experience from childhood, or from a time when hospitalized & sedated...It's so sublime.  I hate it.  Again, I never had these experiences before taking Lamictal.  It's so strange.
• I have yet to come upon anyone else with such extended auras or simple or complex partial seizures such as the ones before my generalized seizures...

Hello,

I suffer from a migraine daily, and 40% of the time a migraine is followed by a seizure. My whole life has been comsumed by seizures lately, and I think it's because I am in school. I am getting my Associates, and if school is the cause of my increased seizures, I doubt I will make it to my planned goal. However, let me share my symptoms with you, because not only am I still confused, but so is my Dr, and everyone around me. I will wake up in the morning numb. My brain is literally numb. Within an hour my head will start to burn either on the right side or in the back part. Through the day the burning will migrate, after the burning progresses to a point, the migraine will start. This intense pressure will start at the back of my skull. Then by night time I will be having a seizure if not 2 or 3. Once I have the seizure the pressure and the burning is gone for a while. It's like the seizure gets rid of the burning and the pressure. It's odd. Now, I am experiencing blackouts while walking in the store, I am falling all over the place, my vision goes in and out, I have facial tics that weren't always there, my right eye feels like it's going to twitch out of its socket some times. And I get so stupid at times people look at me like I am on drugs. I lose days at a time on my memory because of all of this. My school isn't effected YET thank goodness. I am in search of a new Neuro. Funny thing is, there are none in my area! If anyone  has symptoms even remotely close to these it would be good to know that I am not alone or going crazy.