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How exactly do aura's feel

Mon, 05/15/2006 - 11:30
Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults
How 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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Submitted by tdmunson on Fri, 2007-02-23 - 15:29
Toni Munson Aura's are very scary. I have them before I have a seizure. I start to feel Numb from the tip of my head to my toes. Then it's like I am in a dream world and I can't come out. Everything is going on around me and I hear everything but I can't respond. This is my seizure. The Aura is the warning before the rest of the seizure. The rest of the day I feel terrible like something really bad has happened. Thanks.

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Submitted by Emeria on Mon, 2007-02-26 - 12:53
my epilepsy is pretty well controlled right now, but I do still have simple partials. For me its hard to really accurately describe other than to just say a feeling of doom and weirdness creeps up me. When it feels like it hits my head, I often get strange sensory perceptions, mostly visual. Like... space and dimension won't seem to be real, or the room will bounce and shake a little bit as if I were in a boat. I usually can't or won't speak, except to blurt out "I need to go lie down now". I sometimes get the strong deja vu or jamais vu feelings, which is very strongly accompanied by heavy anxienty. Mostly.. in a nutshell.. everything in my world will all the sudden feel so terribly wrong and distorted. And then... its over. Or in the worst case, a grand mal follows, and I lose all my memory of the entire event.

Re: How exactly do aura's fe

Submitted by jazzyj425 on Tue, 2011-03-15 - 14:57

This is the first time i have heard someone put their aura explanation in a way that makes any sense for me as well. The word jumais vu is exactly what i feel when my aura takes place. This may sound somewhat strange but i will explain what happens to me as best i can. As my aura begins I will become anxious, and thoughts will start running through my mind that seem to contain specific words that I certainly know the meaning to and  then remember from the last aura. Everytime a thought with one of these words passes in my head, it's like blood rushes to my head and I start feeling closer to having a seizure. Now if i try to remember after the seizure what these words were i just draw a blank.

If I could just make that connection before hand and do like some of these other epileptics I could sit or lay down and put myself in a situation where i will not harm myself or others. I seem to keep trying to just somehow stop it from happening. Like i could make it just go away before it happens. If there is a way anyone got through this and made this connection so when the aura begins they are able to put themselves in a less harmful situation, please tell me how you accomplished this if possible. 

This is the first time i have heard someone put their aura explanation in a way that makes any sense for me as well. The word jumais vu is exactly what i feel when my aura takes place. This may sound somewhat strange but i will explain what happens to me as best i can. As my aura begins I will become anxious, and thoughts will start running through my mind that seem to contain specific words that I certainly know the meaning to and  then remember from the last aura. Everytime a thought with one of these words passes in my head, it's like blood rushes to my head and I start feeling closer to having a seizure. Now if i try to remember after the seizure what these words were i just draw a blank.

If I could just make that connection before hand and do like some of these other epileptics I could sit or lay down and put myself in a situation where i will not harm myself or others. I seem to keep trying to just somehow stop it from happening. Like i could make it just go away before it happens. If there is a way anyone got through this and made this connection so when the aura begins they are able to put themselves in a less harmful situation, please tell me how you accomplished this if possible. 

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