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How exactly do aura's feel

Mon, 05/15/2006 - 11:30
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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Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by jessicabrooklynn25 on Sun, 2006-05-21 - 20:21
I recently had my first two siezures 2 days in a row. Each time I saw a kind of ball of wierd metallic energy in my vision that seemed to follow where I looked. Within 10 seconds I was unconscious and blue convulsing and foaming at the mouth with my eyes rolled back in my head (says a witness) I had no idea what had happened when I came to that I argued with them about what had happened. I thought I just felt sick and ran to the bathroom but my now ex-boyfriend said that 5 minutes of me convulsing and being unconscious had passed before I even was able to stand to walk. I spent the next two nights in the emergency room only to be discharged with little said other then that I needed to see a nuerologist. There was no odor, but each day that I had one I spent the whole day before them laying in bed with no energy. I now know that if I see that strange ball then I better said down so I down fall down.

Re: Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by Dirk J on Mon, 2006-05-22 - 21:09
The aura's that i have are ringing in my ears or stairing off at things. Thats how its been as far back as i can remember. i'm 23 and they started at 15. The first one had i was sleeping, my father heard me hitting the walls in my bedroom.I remember waking up going down the steps into the ambulance then passing back out.

Re: Re: How exactly do aura's feel

Submitted by anniemarie on Mon, 2007-04-09 - 04:45
Jessica, You get something simular to what i use to get except I would see this straight red line and it would start in my right eye and when it went past my nose I would pass out and that is all i would remember, I have grand-mals and when I got older They left and now i dont get a warning sign like that and would just go down.

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