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Does anyone else feel like you know when your seizure is coming?
Fri, 01/25/2008 - 16:03Hey, I'm new...I've had epilepsy since I was about 11...I'm almost 18 now. Anyways, sometimes, most days when I'm about to have a seizure, throughout the day, I have these weird "feelings". I can't really describe it, but I think there is a word for it, like a warning signal I guess. I don't know if anyone knows what I'm talking about. But the feeling is really weird, like all of a sudden, I get the chills, and my body feels cold, and I get this weird feeling, almost like a da sha vuu, like I remember "thinking" this thought before, but then I forget it. I don't know...it's very weird, and I know I'm probably not making any sense. Anyways, I know I'm not having a seizure then because I am fully conscious and don't make any movements. But I might have a few of those moments through out the day leading up to my seziure.
Anyways, I was just wondering if anyone else got thos feelings, since I suspect it's related to my epilepsy. Or maybe you want to share any other ways you know you're seziure is coming on.
I have complex partial seizures by the way.
I had my first seizure when i
Submitted by Lisa12345 on Sun, 2018-06-24 - 08:53
I had my first seizure when i was 12, now I'm 24. I can always tell I'm going to have a seizure because hear very loud static/white noise, i feel this impending sense of doom like I'm not in control but there's nothing i can do to stop it. And then it happens. Sometimes the static white noise lasts seconds, once it lasted over 5 minutes and i had time to make a cup of tea before having a triple seizure, the worst I've had. So i can definitely tell when it'll happen. Sometimes I'm conscious when it happens but my vision goes and sometimes I'm unconscious. But when i come round again I'm so exhausted, it's paralysing sometimes. But mine rarely happen now as I'm on steady medication.I'm trying to find out if anyone has the same pre-seizure occurrences before they have a seizure.I have generalised epilepsy but i can never remember the type of seizures i have!