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living with it

Tue, 12/07/2004 - 14:43

At first i thought that i was crazy, but i came to this site and i almost cried because everything is true.  But is it possible to have both absence and complex partial epilepsy?  Is it possible to have several types at once?

I just stare, and sometimes i almost drool.  but with me, i am sort of aware of everything that goes on.  i hear things, but i can't respond, like my whole being does'nt have the energy to respond, so i sort of can't move.  but on  a few occassions, i started to rock back and forth.  I thought that i was crazy because my doctors gave me an EEG, but nothing was abnormal.  But they said that it may have been that i just wasn't having a seizure at that time.  My head tips most times rolls to my left and my eyes roll up and to the left also.  If i'm standing, i do feel weak, but i haven't fell yet.  I mostly just stand there until it passes.  But the bad ones, fortunatley, have only happened while sitting.  But mostly i feel that i will have one soon, usually in the morning,  I feel wierd.  I can;t concentrate.  my thoughts are sometimes confused.  I rememeber one time all of a sudden my brain felt like every neruon was turned on and on fire.  It was like i was thinking of everything and nothing at the same time.  my thoughts were at hyper-drive, and then i had this irresistable urge to take off running as fast as i could.  i don't know what that was, but it was before my diagnosis.  i am so glad that i found this site, because i have longed to just talk to people who understand what i go through, and it is also very reassuring that i am not crazy. 

Comments

RE: RE: living with it

Submitted by ashkazz on Mon, 2004-11-29 - 22:26

honsetly it definitely sounds like a seizure.  Anyway, you should tell your doctor, especially because youl lost consciousness.  definitely do NOT wait until you have another!  Go see your doctor, pronto.  You very possibly have a seizure disorder.  i do know exactly how you feel, as do everyone here.  So, you are not alone nor crazy (as is the oft heard lament) Anytime.

Late,

ash

honsetly it definitely sounds like a seizure.  Anyway, you should tell your doctor, especially because youl lost consciousness.  definitely do NOT wait until you have another!  Go see your doctor, pronto.  You very possibly have a seizure disorder.  i do know exactly how you feel, as do everyone here.  So, you are not alone nor crazy (as is the oft heard lament) Anytime.

Late,

ash

RE: RE: living with it

Submitted by marine_vaillant on Tue, 2004-11-30 - 18:35
Please - tell your doctor about these spells. You trully aren't going crazy. I'm not going to say I understand how you feel, because no one has ever thought I was crazy. Epilepsy is something I've grown up with - I was diagnosed when I was 8. The only reactions I've gotten out of people was the "aww, I'm sorry I brought it up." But anyways- off topic. Please - go see your doctor. Though a seizure has a very little chance of hurting you, if you have a seizure while driving it could not only harm your life, but others as well. I hope everything goes well -Marine

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