Anyone ever have this happen?

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mine is like a feeling in the pit of my stomach, kinda like I am going to be sick, and that hot rush of feeling when your almost in an accident. It is almost like I can feel a deep vibration or hum in the center of my body.
 
Not now, but it happen as a rider in the car caused by motion,
When I tried to explain it to a Dr He just wrote refer to Mental Health on my chart!
I guess I don't have the right Words for it !
Anyway it has been sooo Bad I've wanted to jump on to the Highwa ust to ake it Stop!
Xanax does help if I take it and close my eyes or read and not look at the road
When I drove it would happen and I would barely make it off the road to let it pass.
I was told it was Panic attacks but never believed they were as I had No other symptoms of panic.I have never gone to an Er with any of the Normal Panic Symptoms.
The fear gets bad
I have only been to the ER 3 times by ambulance as I was observed having a full blown seizure that lasted over 5 minutes.But doctors dismissed that as well
 
Fear and doom stink. A major way to wreck your day. Or week. Or month.

The sense of doom thing could be it - it's usually lumped in with auras, but it's a type of simple partial.

If the fear is really bad fear it could be a different kind of simple partial. Extreme emotions are one type of seizure with TLE.

My nighttime seizures include the fear seizures sometimes. I feel like a deer in headlights, frozen with fear. I could talk if asked to, but really I'm completely engulfed in the seizure so the thought of replying to someone never even crosses my mind. It's intense terror. Someone in here described it as how you would feel if you jumped off a building and you were half way down.

The vibration - I get it in my head. Kinda like a hummmmm or a buzzzzzzzz. Rarely also in my legs. It gets really bad if I take Sudafed while I'm on AEDs.
 
Yea it's a doom and or fear thing. Like your gonna drive off the cliff. I know when hubby is driving I can trust him but oh my God with a stranger , or like my 20 yr old daughter . It's worse . It's also made worse by the size car as spatial perspective in a small car is ssoo different that a large one.
Some drugs have made it worse none have made it better.
I might mutter single word during them but remain feeling too paralysis to speak.
I somehow always tell myself in the car I'm going to train my brain to endure it desensitize to it ect. It never works
 
Hi, Sandy,

I know this doesn't help, but if it's a seizure the feeling of fear isn't coming from the car, or the road, or the driver. It wouldn't matter where you are or who you are with. It could happen in the shower or a sidewalk or in your living room chair. A fear seizure isn't aimed at anything. It just is.

Before my diagnosis I didn't know what was happening to me. I thought that whatever I was doing or thinking of at the time was causing my feelings, and that I should be afraid. So I was afraid of a lot of everyday stuff and people.

Knowing it's a seizure doesn't help me during one of them. When the seizure is happening there is nothing in my head but terror. But knowing what it is does help me afterwards. I can logically think through what happened and know that I'm not really afraid of the stove, a co-worker, or my computer.
 
I have a question about a similar but slightly different phenomena I experience quite often. What happens is I'll be walking, say from one room to another in my house, when I suddenly find that I have stopped moving, and am staring at some point in the ceiling, or at the wall across the room, etc. I have no memory of when I stopped dead in my tracks and began staring. It's like a gap in time. I'm walking, when suddenly I find myself stopped in a stare. Anyone else have this?
 
katarn....that is a seizure, and yes I have that happen frequently too. Staring spells are a common seizure for me, whether sitting or standing....and I usually roll my thumbs together, and sometimes smack my lips. (I don't always remember all of it, my kids tell me, Mom you zoned out again)
 
I occasionally get totally drawn into the computer screen. It almost feels like I'm inside it. Usually that means a seizures is going to start soon.

The thing is that even I can know a seizure is going to happen, I either can't pull myself out of it or it's very hard to make myself want to, sort of like being hypnotized. It is a very euphoric feeling though.

Does that sound anything like what you go through when in the car DG?
 
I either can't pull myself out of it or it's very hard to make myself want to, sort of like being hypnotized. It is a very euphoric feeling though.

Does that sound anything like what you go through when in the car DG?

Yes exactly......I was telling myself, look away, but it was like I couldn't or if I did for a split second, I was right back to the fixation again.
Do you consider this a simple partial?
 
Eric,

That's IT. "Pulled into" is exactly the feeling. I didn't count what I was feeling because I didn't think it was a seizure. For me, it feels different than hypnotized. More sort of pulled in and frozen into something. I'm pulled into whatever I'm looking at in that moment, and it usually lasts under 5 seconds. It never occurs to me to turn away or shake it off. All of the sudden it's just done.

I didn't think it was a simple partial. I thought it was inattention. Hmmm..
 
I've never considered this to be a seizures either because I usually get this sensation around my head that I can only describe as tingly isn't happening.

I do seem to get this "drawn in" sensation more when my seizures are more frequent, like I said in another thread today I had 2 nocturnal seizures & when I get nocturnal seizures or have more than 1 in 24 hours then something is usually out of balance.

I"d like to ask Dr. Arvind if, from a medical viewpoint these are considered seizures. I do keep track of my seizures but haven't been marking down these drawn in episodes yet. Maybe I should start. I've had numerous ones today.

Endless, Do you feel euphoric as you're being pulled in? I do get this very nice sensation that I can't describe.

Also, when I say hypnotized I mean under it's spell or control. That word can mean different things to different people so I'll try to be more specific when describing such things.
 
I don't feel euphoric when I get that drawn in feeling. But I do get seizures that are intense emotion, like terror, euphoria, etc.

When you say "under control of" NOW I get it! That's it, too.
 
I've never thought of these as seizures but the more we describe them the more I think it sounds like we're describing seizures. Hmmmmm :ponder:
 
Eric, what is your level of consciousness like during these events? Can you still hear people talking to you and such?
 
Katarn,

When I get these I hear people and other things in the background, it just never occurs to me to listen and answer. Same as all my simple partials. I'm aware of what's going on around me, but it doesn't even occur to me to engage in it. I'm too sucked into whatever my brain is doing.

Yeah, Eric. How about you???? Do you answer people?

How about you, eric?
 
Wow. Then I get this exact same thing. I always thought it was normal. I always thought of it as "zoning out". It never occurred to me that no one else around me ever did this. And I do get the sense of euphoria as well.

And yeah, I love House! I decided to have a change of avatar because I felt like I may be hard to take seriously with Prison Mike as my avatar. :P
 
I'm still very aware of what's around me, at least I have the perception of being aware though my focus is deeply on the computer, drawn in like I said. I"m usually alone when it happens because for me it's the computer that seems to trigger these episodes. That fact makes me wonder if I'm photosensitive. If the phone were to ring or someone knock at the door I imagine I'd just get up & do what needs to be done. It would be easier to snap myself out of it when there's a reason to snap out of it. There's a part of me (or maybe it's my brain) that doesn't want get out once drawn in.
 
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