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How exactly do aura's feel
Mon, 05/15/2006 - 11:30How exactly do aura's feel? Can you have aura's and not have an actual seizure? I think I had some this weekend. I went off into like a "spacy" feeling. Like I was tingling and I couldn't make myself snap out of it for a few seconds. I have had a headache since I has these feelings. I have had E a long time, but I am new to all the terminology and so forth. Thanks.
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Re: Re: Re: After reading the replies, I
Submitted by christinetntn on Fri, 2007-08-10 - 09:15
Scott, Just like you said to Sara - I have the same feelings.
They started about a year ago. I was in a very stressful job and just chalked it up to my brain doing some sort of stress relief exercise. I have since changed jobs and life is great...I have very little stress, but my "movie moments" as I call them, keep happening.
I have a very strong sense of deja vu and I feel like I'm in a movie. I guess its like someone watch me...I am the center of all the action. Everything happening around me is scripted. I also get goosebumps or tingling on my scalp. When they are really strong, I also get anxious and nauseous.
I get these moments 3-4 times a day and they last about just a minute or so. I hate that you get them too, but I'm glad I'm not completely crazy!!!
Christine
Re: After reading the replies, I
Submitted by faerietygers on Mon, 2006-09-11 - 18:00
I used to have those all the time too, LIke I've done this before and then I would shiver. I had absence seizures and at the worst was having about 10-20 a day, and a lot of deja vu. Now I have controlled seizures, but I kind of miss the deja vu, made me feel mysterious haha. I am totally spacey, and I so glad someone else feels the same way I do. When you are around people that don't know what it is like, how do you describe, I am feeling spacey? I told my bosses this week that I was afraid I was going to have a seizure because I have been having trouble remembering things and putting words together when I am speaking. i think they think I am full of it. I can't concentrate either. Or well.
Re: Re: After reading the replies, I
Submitted by ScottR on Sun, 2006-12-31 - 00:43
Sara if I did not know it was you making the above statements I would swear I was talking. Everything you said is exactly how I feel. From the deja-vu, to making it go away by aknowlodging that it is a simple partial, to the tightening of the back of the neck, and even the feeling that when someone is watching me that it is from a long distance. The only other thing that I will also have occur is a tingling on my scalp. Thanks, it is certainly nice to know that someone else has the same warning signs that I do. Take care Scott Rogers.