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Epilepsy/Seizure Caused Hallucinations?
Wed, 09/10/2008 - 14:58Comments
Re: Epilepsy/Seizure Caused Hallucinations?
Submitted by deirdre2 on Sun, 2008-11-16 - 20:35
Your ccomment about "wanting to make things right" struck a chord with me. I'm wondering if your sensations and hallucinations are from the Keppra, and not the seizure. Keppra made me feel very "responsible" to the point that I spent all night dreaming about fixing and counting and sorting things and organizing people. Once I talked to my doctor about these obsessional thoughts, he added Elavil at bedtime, which helps me stay asleep and also lets me dream normally. I even talked to myself in a dream once when I started to obsess, and said "Stop it. You don't have to do this!" and I did.
Best wishes for a calm spirit,
Ramona
Your ccomment about "wanting to make things right" struck a chord with me. I'm wondering if your sensations and hallucinations are from the Keppra, and not the seizure. Keppra made me feel very "responsible" to the point that I spent all night dreaming about fixing and counting and sorting things and organizing people. Once I talked to my doctor about these obsessional thoughts, he added Elavil at bedtime, which helps me stay asleep and also lets me dream normally. I even talked to myself in a dream once when I started to obsess, and said "Stop it. You don't have to do this!" and I did.
Best wishes for a calm spirit,
Ramona
Re: Epilepsy/Seizure Caused Hallucinations?
Submitted by uberzwitter on Mon, 2008-10-20 - 19:46
I haven't had this- but will say that a seizure can last much longer than the typical time frame. My first seizure ever was a simple partials (I have complex partials that generalize now) I was in the hospital four days before they gave me an EEG, a diagnosis, and an anti-convulsant. The entire time my head and arm was jerking and I was having 4 or 5 major convulsions a day. I have had complex partials where I am definetly acted stoned that have lasted hours when I was on lower doses. If I went by the timing standards I would have been at the emergency room sooo many times over, but then again I have clusters. Point being, everyone is different and I think the 30 sec. to 2 min. is a general standard of what an everyday seizure is. That doesn't mean that people don't have more serious ones, don't go into status, things like that. Whatever seizure type causes hallucinations, well you had a much stronger type of it. Same as how someone can have a simple partials sz that lasts a minute and I had one for four days. Can it happen again? I don't know, how this happened in the first place? Is this the first time? Were you not on any AED's? For me that was 5 years ago and since being put on meds I have had bad seizures but never again something like that. I don't want to imagine being on nothing though...