Simple Partial or just losing my mind?

[MVATC]

Hey everyone,
I've been dealing with Tonic-Clonics for the last 9 months now, annoying but manageable, but now I've been having a new problem the last 2 months or so. It's hard enough to explain when talking with someone, so typing may bring this to a whole new level of difficult. Here goes. Lately, I've been having a hard time communicating with the people around me. Every so often, about 12-15 times a day, I lose my ability to concentrate on what someone is talking to me about. We can be having a conversation and then suddenly it sounds like they are just repeating a sentence of words that make no sense to what we are talking about. Example, I work with sports teams and one of the coaches came to me to talk about a player and we started discussing the athletes desire to play. Mid way through the first few sentences, all I could make out he was saying was the same sentence I constantly hear everyone else saying. It reminds me of when you have a song stuck in your head and everything you do just reminds you of the song. The tune never goes away and you are constantly singing it to yourself. The same thing is going on, but there is no music, its just the same few sentences stringed together. Eventually, 15-20 seconds later, all symptoms go away and I feel completely normal again like nothing happened. It seems to come out of nowhere. The same thing happens when I'm watching TV or listening to music and now even when I'm reading. Sometimes the sentences that I am reading just turn into those few sentences that I'm constantly remembering. Really really weird. Any ideas?

[Rae1889]

what is those few sentences your always remembering? is it always the same sentence, or just the last thing you remeber the person saying. It sounds like a Deja Vu simple partial to me

[MVATC]

The sentences are gibberish, but the always have the same rhythm and cadence. I've tried saying what I'm I'm hearing at the same time and the sentences make no sense whatsoever, but they are always the same.

[Rae1889]

so its like your hearing a talk show radio program, or a tv show or conversation going on in another room so you can't make out what is said?

that seems more like a type of aura/simple partial as well.

[occb]

My partner experiences that with listening and reading, but he doesn't normally hear/read the same gibberish over and over again. His favourite was when Darth Vader showed up on a list of organic foods

It sounds like it could be a simple partial seizure.

[Inaara]

His favourite was when Darth Vader showed up on a list of organic foods

Tell your partner that Darth Vader is only an organic food source if you are a mynock...and the Death Star would probably be more filling.

But yeh, like most folks, sounds like it resembles a simple partial or aura. Some of my simple partials sound like talk radio where I can't *quite* make out what's being said, though I do on very rare occasions get one where it sounds like a radio playing music I can't quite make out.

[petero]

Every so often, about 12-15 times a day, I lose my ability to concentrate on what someone is talking to me about. We can be having a conversation and then suddenly it sounds like they are just repeating a sentence of words that make no sense to what we are talking about.

I've been trying to consider these types of phenomena too, what they mean, what they are... maybe not necessarily the same as you're experiencing...

but consider the fact that epilepsy utilizes/triggers the brainwaves in ways that exceed normal
that's known

also, you may be processing information much faster than is normal and realizing the redundancy and inefficency of communication - and that your brain is processing much faster than that

[KelVarQ]

hmmmm? Sounds like imprints in the brain. I have that with noises now but usually during the early morning hours when I'm coming out of sleep. I will tell my husband to stop snoring when he's wide awake and watching T.V. but I can literally hear the snoring. A couple weeks ago my daughter came in the room with the clicking toy and I told her to please stop (annoying clicking noise) and she left the room...a few minutes or maybe 1/2 hour later I heard it again and opened my eyes to tell my daughter to leave the room and she wasn't there...I could still hear it (but it was lower) so I assumed she was in the closet hiding (she's 4) and I opened the closet door expecting to see her and she wasn't there and I could still hear it. Soon after it stopped. I don't think I was seizing...I just think it left an imprint in the brain for longer than it should have. However, I'm no doctor and it did freak me out but luckily it doesn't happen all the time since the last thing I want is to start to question whether or not I'm hearing things that aren't really there. The brain is amazing and can be quite scary at times.