New here--auditory seizures?

[Ravensong]

I am happy to have found this forum...I have a long history of epilepsy, with lots of problems and issues, and always find it easier to get along when there are people like me to talk to.

In 1981, I had a grand mal seizure, which led to an eventual diagnosis of complex partial epilepsy, although it was a very long road getting there. We figured I'd been having partial seizures all my life; they are just so very much like my dissociative symptoms, that they are hard to recognize.

When I miss my meds (forget or can't afford--I'm on Topamax), I often have visual hallucinations that my neurologist believes are seizures. They are dark shapes varying in size from a bug to a mouse, that move across my field of vision.

I also have had in the past (and just the last two nights had them again) auditory hallucinations, and am wondering if they could be seizures as well. The ones I had this week are identical to those I had before. They occurred in that state between sleep and wakefulness; the first was someone calling my name; the second was the sound of someone pounding on a door.

There's also an accompanying feeling of fear with these.

Hope to meet you all, and look forward to chatting with you!

Ravensong

[Nakamova]

Hi Ravensong, welcome to CWE!

Auditory and visual hallucinations, and sensations of fear can both be symptoms of simple partial seizures. Simple partial seizures are similar to migraine auras, and can take a wide variety of forms. They are usually brief, and can involve some sort of sensory disturbance. Unlike complex partial seizures, there's no loss of consciousness. You can read more about them here: http://www.epilepsy.com/Epilepsy/seizure_simplepartial

Best,
Nakamova