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Hello everyone. I'm new here and scared to death. I apologize in advance if this gets too long.
I am 32 years old, married with 1 daughter. For the past year or so I have been having what I call 'dizzy spells.' I never thought much about them but after awhile I did notice they occured sometime around my period. Sometimes it's 2 weeks before, sometimes 3, sometimes a week or so after. The feelings were very hard to explain (without sounding insane). During these episodes I can smell/taste things that aren't there and old memories seem to resurface, de-ja-vu (sp) I guess. People talking to me, their voices sound muffled and as if the are a mile away talkign to me. If I try to talk, everythign comes out garbled and makes absolutely no sense. My heart races and I get sweaty palms, etc. These episodes last for about 30 seconds or so. At times, when feeling one of these coming on, I would grab a pen and try to write down the memories I am seeing in my head because I can never ever remember them after it's over. But I just can not seem to make myself write down anything. I just space out.
Now these have been going on for a year or so. It is usually a 3 day deal. The first day I just feel off, but nothing happens. The next day the episodes come and go all day, the next day, is just like a hangover and I need the day to recover to feel normal again.
This past Sunday I felt off and knew what would be in store for me on Monday.
Early Monday morning I had a grand mal seizure in my sleep. My shaking woke my husband who turned on the light to find me unresponsive, cold, shaking, and gasping for breath. By the time I arrived at the hospital I felt normal again just confused as could be and completely drained. Tests were ran, blood work, CT scan and everything was normal. The doctor sent me home with a diagnosis of bronchitis.
My husband immediately took me to our regular doctor who ordered more tests, a carotid doppler, echo, and EEG. Carotid doppler and Echo came back normal and the EEG is scheduled for Monday.
A friend of mine, mentioned to me that the dizzy spells I described sounded like seizures (I never realized). I got to researching and everything makes soooo much sense now! I'M NOT INSANE AFTER ALL! What a relief!!!
I have not been offically diagnosed yet but I am sure I suffer from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and complex partial seizures. And after reading about Catamenial Epilepsy, it does make sense as to why I only have these episodes once a month. I have been in a printing frenzy printing every document I can find to take to my doctor on Monday.
I am relieved to know it is not all in my head, but now I am scared beyond belief!!!!
I am 32 years old, married with 1 daughter. For the past year or so I have been having what I call 'dizzy spells.' I never thought much about them but after awhile I did notice they occured sometime around my period. Sometimes it's 2 weeks before, sometimes 3, sometimes a week or so after. The feelings were very hard to explain (without sounding insane). During these episodes I can smell/taste things that aren't there and old memories seem to resurface, de-ja-vu (sp) I guess. People talking to me, their voices sound muffled and as if the are a mile away talkign to me. If I try to talk, everythign comes out garbled and makes absolutely no sense. My heart races and I get sweaty palms, etc. These episodes last for about 30 seconds or so. At times, when feeling one of these coming on, I would grab a pen and try to write down the memories I am seeing in my head because I can never ever remember them after it's over. But I just can not seem to make myself write down anything. I just space out.
Now these have been going on for a year or so. It is usually a 3 day deal. The first day I just feel off, but nothing happens. The next day the episodes come and go all day, the next day, is just like a hangover and I need the day to recover to feel normal again.
This past Sunday I felt off and knew what would be in store for me on Monday.
Early Monday morning I had a grand mal seizure in my sleep. My shaking woke my husband who turned on the light to find me unresponsive, cold, shaking, and gasping for breath. By the time I arrived at the hospital I felt normal again just confused as could be and completely drained. Tests were ran, blood work, CT scan and everything was normal. The doctor sent me home with a diagnosis of bronchitis.
My husband immediately took me to our regular doctor who ordered more tests, a carotid doppler, echo, and EEG. Carotid doppler and Echo came back normal and the EEG is scheduled for Monday.
A friend of mine, mentioned to me that the dizzy spells I described sounded like seizures (I never realized). I got to researching and everything makes soooo much sense now! I'M NOT INSANE AFTER ALL! What a relief!!!
I have not been offically diagnosed yet but I am sure I suffer from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and complex partial seizures. And after reading about Catamenial Epilepsy, it does make sense as to why I only have these episodes once a month. I have been in a printing frenzy printing every document I can find to take to my doctor on Monday.
I am relieved to know it is not all in my head, but now I am scared beyond belief!!!!