elizzza811
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I have a pit-in-my-stomach hunch that I'm still having seizures, some of which might be autonomic simple partials in nature. But every time I mention these symptoms to my neurologist, she doesn't even seem phased.
- Often times I find myself 'welling up' with anger and rage. My rage response is often sudden and unprovoked, or at least not in line with the trigger.
- Sometimes I'll suddenly start pouring sweat for no reason. (Since I'm middle-aged, these too easily get blamed on peri-menopause, even though these attacks have been going on for 2 decades.)
- On a few occasions while I was outside gardening this past summer I started salivating enough for it to drip out of my mouth. This has never happened before this past summer.
- Unprovoked sexual arousal. (I didn't tell my neurologist about this one, too embarrassed.)
- Often times my digestion will suddenly come to a screeching halt and I will bloat up so badly that it hurts to bend at the waist, even to sit. Sometimes this will even happen hours after a meal or on days I haven't even eaten. It's always sudden.
- Salty taste along my gumline - always there, but severity fluctuates.
- This rythmic gritting, grinding, and clenching of my teeth - always there, just its severity seems to fluctuate.
*** The rage, bloat, sexual arousal, salty taste, and an increase in this gritting/grinding/clenching of my teeth often occur simultaneously.
I've read up on abdominal epilepsy, and it does exist. So why aren't any of these potentially autonomic symptoms being taken seriously? Heck, GI symptoms were probably my number 1 complaint prior to my epilepsy diagnosis, and I was put through 2 consecutive colonoscopies over a 2-year period in an effort to explain these gastro symptoms - nothing.
Has anyone here been diagnosed with autonomic simple partials or abdominal epilepsy? How were these diagnosed? Seems all my neuro wants to do is to send me to a shrink, and it's getting old.
- Often times I find myself 'welling up' with anger and rage. My rage response is often sudden and unprovoked, or at least not in line with the trigger.
- Sometimes I'll suddenly start pouring sweat for no reason. (Since I'm middle-aged, these too easily get blamed on peri-menopause, even though these attacks have been going on for 2 decades.)
- On a few occasions while I was outside gardening this past summer I started salivating enough for it to drip out of my mouth. This has never happened before this past summer.
- Unprovoked sexual arousal. (I didn't tell my neurologist about this one, too embarrassed.)
- Often times my digestion will suddenly come to a screeching halt and I will bloat up so badly that it hurts to bend at the waist, even to sit. Sometimes this will even happen hours after a meal or on days I haven't even eaten. It's always sudden.
- Salty taste along my gumline - always there, but severity fluctuates.
- This rythmic gritting, grinding, and clenching of my teeth - always there, just its severity seems to fluctuate.
*** The rage, bloat, sexual arousal, salty taste, and an increase in this gritting/grinding/clenching of my teeth often occur simultaneously.
I've read up on abdominal epilepsy, and it does exist. So why aren't any of these potentially autonomic symptoms being taken seriously? Heck, GI symptoms were probably my number 1 complaint prior to my epilepsy diagnosis, and I was put through 2 consecutive colonoscopies over a 2-year period in an effort to explain these gastro symptoms - nothing.
Has anyone here been diagnosed with autonomic simple partials or abdominal epilepsy? How were these diagnosed? Seems all my neuro wants to do is to send me to a shrink, and it's getting old.
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