Fighting off seizures

I think I fought off a siezure once by concentrating hard and visually locking on to concrete things like numbers and letters. And I think I have postponed the onset of one with that strategy.

Hi bunnae, As I used to get plenty of warning of more intense seizures coming on the next day, with warnings the night before my cluster seizure day, I've tried all kind of tricks to stop the impending seizures. Since my cluster seizures previously hit about once a month, I even tried to find a way to induce them on the best day possible just to get them over with for that month. I never did find any technique that worked beyond simple seizures in limited environments; otherwise seemingly successes were no better than chance random occurrences. I did find ways to induce minor visceral sensations that were weak sensations similar to the very intense visceral sensations of moderate aura. Then, disagreeable such sensations were much more easily induced than agreeable such sensations (i.e., it's easier to induce "sensations of great fear" than sensations of "heavenly ecstasy," but both can be accomplished with long enough and careful schedules of reinforcement). My very limited seizure control success might just be from co-morbid Asperger's, rather than pseudo-Asperger's from imitative side-effects of temporal lobe epilepsy and/or Geschwind Syndrome. Recently, (but I already lost track of it) I read a sloppy research paper that I regard as overly "free will" biased, that claims that focal seizures (such as warning aura) that spread through paths close to "volitional" parts of the human brain, can be stopped in it's path by "willingly overloading" that "volitional" part of the brain with intense activity. It seems a bit optimistic to me, then what do they really mean? With the warning aura, yell loud obscenities at the moon? Hit my thumb with a hammer for the distractionary pain? Stick my nose in a skunk for the distractionary smell? Think real hard about a very difficult crossword puzzle clue? Take a strong swig of caffeine or a stiff drink, or just strongly think about it? The closest I've came, is to take a strong dose of Keppra with a warning aura, but I don't think that's what they meant. They also cited a few too many cases of success (with no failures), but the different powers of thought being able to stop the aura spreading to a bigger seizure just didn't work for me, even with many experiments with and without additional physical actions. From a previous posting, a more scientific article cited was in: I also tried variations with sensory stimulation to stop secondary tonic-clonics from strong periodic clusters of seizures. Some reports of success from others with stimulation involve very counter-intuitive results, esp. a 1989 article in Epilepsia, 30(2):168-174 "Sensory Stimulation for Inhibition of Epileptic Seizures": http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119430454/PDFSTART The posting, with other similar subject postings, was here at: http://www.epilepsy.com/discussion/983031 This path only works when you're not signed on here, otherwise it defaults to the home page of epilepsy.com frequently. I hope this helps

When I feel a ting/aura coming on, I do everything in my power to think of something completely different than the oncoming seizure.  When I have tried to run away from Auras in the past, my problem is that all I had in my mind at that time was, indeed, the seizure.  I try and think of other things, for example, football, the beach, family...ANYTHING BUT THIS POTENTIAL SEIZURE.  It works for me EVERY TIME WHEN IM ALONE!  When I am around people and feel one, I do my best to get away on my own to calm it down.  The more I have to concentrate, the more severe the seizure is getting.  Give it a try!  I was born with, diagnosed, undergone surgery and am still an epileptic, but I will continue to fight  God Bless Everyone.