Do we worry and over analyze to much?

[Abynorml]

Spent all day at the airport yesterday, and had to wait 12 hours for a red eye, finally got nice in comfy in the dark and they turn some monitors on for the inflight movie, my eyes were closed and I think the lack of sleep plus the semi sleep state plus the flickering of the monitor might of provoked something, my arm shook real bad for a minute could feel the flickering in my head, then it stopped, but when I finally got off the plane I came down with uncontrollable shivers for about 10 minutes, it was chilly in Atlanta but not cold enough to provoke shivers. I don't know am I just over focused on this lately or should I be concerned?

 

[Wobblez]

Hi Abynorml, sorry to hear you struggled a bit on your flight. I know what you're talking about with the symptoms. I had 3 seizures in a row and had uncontrollable shivers between them all. That was interesting, I couldn't stop my teeth chattering. I think we can get too self-aware and notice things that may happen to other people but overall, if there are continuing constant symptoms, you do need to keep an eye on it.

Have you been diagnosed?

 

[Abynorml]

Ambien is making my phone look 3d I think. It's time for bed.

 

[Loopy Lou]

It's interesting that you both get the shivers after a seizure, I get that too. When I brought it up with my neurologist though he said he thought it was a shock reaction and he hadn't heard of many being like that after a seizure.

 

[huskymom]

don't you love hearing those words from your doctor? I think they all fall back on that line

 

[Abynorml]

I haven't had a label saying exactly what's going on with me, but the doc says its a seizure disorder, possibly JME, I'm a little scared to tell him about this episode, I'm honestly scared of losing my drivers license, stuff like this happens very very rarely, I was hoping but it wasn't a simple partial I experienced on the plane, but it kinda adds up. I lose my drivers license my life could be turned upside down, but if it was an uncontrolled seizure event I could end up hurting someone while driving, I usually only manifest myoclonics, but I have had at least one t/c, and other events a few years ago that could of been partials and a decade ago I had two drop like events.

 

[Abynorml]

Wobbles the event on the plane was short, but freaked me out, I also saw really complex pulsating patterns when I closed my eyes, that happened briefly like the shakes in the arm and then stopped, I tried to sleep the rest of the plane ride, time was weird my clock on my phone changed to eastern time so I couldn't tell how long I was freaking out, it wasn't till I got off the plane when I got the shivers, and I couldnt stop my teeth from chattering, it wasn't that cold, but I do have essential tremors so it's possible the shivers were related to that, I rarely shiver like that though. Essential tremors is another neurological disorder that causes people to shake, kinda like a milder form of Parkinson's but not as debilitating.

 

[Abynorml]

Well I'm gonna tell my doc I think I had a simple partial, good chance I might lose my license, but the thought of this ever happening with my nephew in the car or me hurting someone family whle driving makes me feel ill

 

[qtowngirl]

huskymom, I'm with the neuro on this one. Worse for sure when it's a T-C but can happen with partials and other smaller seizures as well. When I'm having a simple partial I get hot, face is beet red and flaming, but when I come out of it the blood slowly starts to drain and within a minute or less I'm freezing cold and ghost white. Not a pleasant 18 that's for sure.
And with T-C's we are pretty buggered upon wakening. The brain controls our entire system, and when it doesn't know how to think or where to properly put things everything is off until we can speak again, comprehend time, space, and identity. I always get really cold after a big one, body temperature is down and shivering.
This is entirely due to shock, esp. if we've fallen hard and banged our head off something, and temp. drop and shivers is how our body deals with what has just happened. Quite a major event we're put through.
The bad lack of sleep and being drained wouldn't have helped either. Hope you're feeling better today.