Auras?

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I'm sooooo

glad for you, Flinnigan, that nothing happened. I'm also glad for me, that nothing's happened. At this point, I honestly believe that it was the fumes from the skillet that was the cause of the problem. Considering the fact that there were four other people in the house that smelled the same thing, and all had some form of a headache from it, then I think I'm OK.

I just think that the side effects for me will take longer to go away, and were stronger in the first place because of my E. And if you think about it, that really does make sense, I think....
 
Molly97 said:
Billy,
I have sensory seizures; more than likely simple partials coming through the five senses. I smell both bleach and ammonia. And my doc says that it's common for people to have smells from the past as auras. :twocents:
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Molly, strange, I smelt bleach yesterday, and for the life of me, I could not figure out where it was coming from, well, other than a warp to the past.
I also smell Cinnamon in my Grandmother's kitchen, well, when I was a little boy, she cooked, those smells still roam around me. The Bleach I can relate too.
I am so thankful I found this forum, I don't feel alone.

:) Billy.
 
Another Aura I have noticed, well, I'm not bringing spirituality or Religion into this, but I see like these Heavenly like images, lights and so forth, also like a push and pull, frozen in time feeling.

Billy.
 
I wish I didn't have Simple Partials (a.k.a. Auras) at all, especially when they come one after the other it is extremely nerve wracking and tiring. I find myself wishing i would just get the complex partial and be done with it.

A few weeks ago I experienced three days and nights of SP's, virtually non stop. It was as if my head was on the guillotine block just waiting for the blade to drop!! It was both exhausting and frightening.

I told my partner some time ago that I thought it would be o.k. if I just had simple partials instead of the complex partials, because I thought I could 'handle them' but now I have had to eat my words. I hate them :(
 
There are many here who went from tonic clonic to simple partials and say the same thing. I've had simple partials my whole life so I was kinda used to them. The last two years I had complex and found those to be more annoying especially waiting for them to happen. I could tell for days I was going to and when I finally had it I felt so much better. Those few days before were a little like PMS. Glad to be rid of them but I do miss the Deja Vu a little.
 
Cinnabar said:
I did experience Out of Body Experiences, time warps, and garbled speech. Auras?
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That's interesting Cinnabar. I experience my time warps and speech problems after a complex partial, along with amnesia, and sometimes after SP's I have the speech difficulty also.
 
roo, post ictal state once took it's toll above garbled speech after an Out of Body Experience. I couldn't speak for about five minutes no matter how hard I tried. In my research I came across an article which addressed this as not being uncommon. Of course, at the time - clueless, I was mortified. All the peculiar sensations and beliefs I had in the past now make sense since my diagnosis of Temoral Lobe Epilepsy.
 
Cinnabar

I think I am starting to fit some of the pieces together myself now Cinnabar, thanks to the wonderful people I have met here.

It has been very confusing for me due to my other neurological immune illness to sort the wheat from the chaff so to speak. But some things are now becoming clearer. Two of my children have now come out and said on seperate occasions that they had noticed my 'abscences' as far back at least twelve years ago. Others have put it closer to fifteen.

I have also had the total loss of speech thing - we thought at first it may have been a mini stroke. It followed a sudden fall. I've had two more of these sudden falls and I am now thinking that they may be 'drop attacks'. I will speak to my epileptologist about them when next I see him. I'm fairly sure I'm also having night time seizures as I have been audiotaping. I'm going to try and borrow a video recorder to see if I can catch something on video. Night time seizures would certainly make sense of the mess I've made of my bedhead and the bruises I sometimes find on my hand and wrist.

Sorry for the long story!
 
Not long at all Roo, It is amazing how things make sense after diagnoses and it blows me away when I fit a new piece into the puzzle.
 
roo, I also have nocturnal seizures. I dream that I am seizing, wake up to discover I had lost total bladder control. My neurologist said that was a post ictal state - release from the seizure. I've also had unexplained bruises. Tired of changing sheets!
 
Cinnabar said:
roo, I also have nocturnal seizures. I dream that I am seizing, wake up to discover I had lost total bladder control. My neurologist said that was a post ictal state - release from the seizure. I've also had unexplained bruises. Tired of changing sheets!
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I have urinated the bed while seizing, I can relate.

Billy :twocents:
 
Wow, i never knew about auras until about a year ago. I had always had those feelings but never understand them and was so happy to finally hear an explanation for something I thought was just me. It comes on very suddenly. I could be anywhere and I would just suddenly feel alone and just dirty or sick like I wanted to go take a shower. They're so weird but its nice to know that sometimes there is a warning.
 
cinnabar, billy

that hasn't happened to me......yet, thankfully.

Must be so distressing :(
 
roo, just in case don't invest in 350 thread count sheets!!!
 
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Have just felt them myself in the department store. But if I had the $ and no Nocturnals, I'd be buying them up! All in different colors and designs. Then I'd have to have to buy a large house with a huge linen closet. Look at where it would bring me to!
 
We can but dream...............upon our 200 thread count sheets :(

We'll just have to make do eh, Cinnabar?
 
Another Aura experience I had was one side of my brain went numb, I know it sounds strange, but it did, I took my meds real quick and it slowly stopped, I went into a fight or flight mode, it was scary.

About the sheets lol, I have changed soooo many, when i was a child, I would urinate the bed allot, and it was embarissing, I sometimes was so afraid to stay all night with friends and family.

Billy.
 
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