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What do you feel?

Sat, 12/24/2005 - 12:21
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: What do you feel?

Submitted by bonnetjt on Wed, 2007-09-19 - 02:31
I have only had two seizures that I know of, but have also blacked out a couple of times and puked immediately. Anyway, I had one seizure when I was watching tv, and I had one when I was watching a movie, it almost felt like an Alfred Hitchcock movie when they happened, like the scenes where the camera focus's in and out at the same time, its real bizarre and then all of a sudden my cheek on the the right side of my face started to shake like crazy. I am almost positive that I prevented an additional seizure by walking out of a room during a film strip presentation because I felt oncoming symptoms. Another weird thing is that I have serious Deja vu a couple times a year, I heard Deja Vu and seizures are related.

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