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What do you feel?
Sat, 12/24/2005 - 12:21Topic: Family & Friends
I am very sorry to ask, and I apologise if this is too personal. I would just like to ask what do you actually feel during a seizure. How do you know when you have a seizure - I hear that epileptics can smell rotten eggs, or burnt rubber. Are you concious during a seizure, and do you realise that you are having one.
Thank you, from Amrou
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Re: Re: What do you feel?
Submitted by honeybear on Mon, 2006-01-02 - 13:40
Hi
I will try and explain what happens to me before and after a seizure I appologise if it is a bit confussing.
In most cases I get a warning before I am going to have a tonic clonic seizure, but sometimes I get an aura on its own I think this is a simple partal seizure.
During the aura I will feel disconnected from things. I kind of know that there are things and people around me but I can not connect with them. I get a strange heat sensation rising up inside. I also start to feel very tired. People tell me that I go very flushed in the face.
I usually know that I have had a seizure beucase I have bitten my cheek or toung. I am confussed take me a while to een figure out my name. I am also tired and I have a very bad headache and fell sick and sometimes I am sick.
I hope that this makes sence
take care
from Honeybear
Re: Re: Re: What do you feel?
Submitted by joed43 on Mon, 2006-01-02 - 20:36
Hi from Joe Dupuis
I've also felt the inner heat in my neck then it rises up to my head. I've tasted metal in my mouth and was told my face appeared flushed.
Then I'm drained of all energy and must rest.
Sometimes I feel deja vu,sometimes I've noticed doublevision.
Mine are known as temporal lobe seizures
Re: What do you feel?
Submitted by icca1980 on Sat, 2005-12-31 - 19:45
The type of seizures I have is called psycho-motor ones. Before I have a seizure, I have a aura, just like the last person said. I used to have so many, (auras), that thats why I never tell anyone when I'm having a warning sign. I would experience a aura, than not have a blackout seizure. But never have a seizure without first having a aura. I have about 20 second notice to get to safety. The smell of auras aren't eggs at all. To be honest with you, I honest to god can't explain what it smells like. everyone in my family already asked me a million times and I really can't explain it. its just an abnormal smell. I can easily tell when I had a blackout seizure. Because when I wake up and come back to reality, I have at least 1 bruise on my body somewhere.