Does this sound like a type of seizure?

[sarahkay03]

I was diagnosed with partial seizures last August. Over the past five months, the seizures have become more frequent and more 'obvious', for lack of a better term. In other words, they are getting worse. In the past few months, I have been on different doses and combinations of Keppra, Lamictal, Vimpat, and Topamax to try and control the activity. Right now I am on 2000mg of Keppra/day.

About a month ago (at the time I was on 75mg Topamax and 500mg Keppra), I noticed a very strange thing happening. At first it happened sporadically, and now a few weeks later it's happening to me almost every day, sometimes several times a day. It's hard to describe, but here goes:

I keep seeing people in public, recognizing them as someone I know well, either approaching them or staring at them, and then after about 10 seconds realizing the person is actually a stranger. For example, today at the gym this woman walked by me, and I thought it was my son's preschool teacher. After staring for a minute I realized it wasn't. She actually didn't look much like her at all. However, a minute later I looked back at the same woman and thought it again. It's the weirdest feeling. It makes me feel like I'm going nuts!

I guess I'm curious if anyone else has experienced anything like this? Is this a type of seizure? I don't think it's a medication side effect, because I've been taking different ones while it has been happening. Also, I've heard of face blindness, where people don't recognize a person they know, but this is the exact opposite. I keep thinking I recognize everyone

Also might be worth mentioning that I started having seizures out of nowhere. I had an MRI in July and it was clean. I do frequently worry, though, that there's some reason they missed for me beginning to have seizures out of the blue.

Thanks!

 

[Fedup]

sarahkay03

You are welcome to C.W.E. but just because your seizures start out of the blue does no mean that anything was missed, most MRI and EEG can come back normal and honestly I do not think you are having a different kind of seizure. Epilepsy is a complicated and unknown subject at the moment, so anything can happen.

 

[jyearta]

I have déjà uv (I learned at this forum-- that is a simple partial seizure.

My go like this....Everything (people, place, conservation, etc.) seems like it has happened before. Sometimes I will think this person is going to say this or that and that is exactly what comes out of their mouth.

Then I will stop and stare, I will smack my lips, I will know who is talking, what they are saying, and I will know where I'm at. However I can not respond to anyone. this will last a few seconds and as I come out of it I will overcome with fear.

I have TLE of the right side.

 

[Nakamova]

It does sound like deja vu, which can be a a form of simple partial seizure. Seizures of this type tend to originate in the temporal lobe.

 

[sarahkay03]

Thanks. I definitely experience deja vu frequently---the type described by jyearta, where I can basically fill in the blanks of a conversation before it happens. Such a strange experience! I hadn't thought that this might be related to the same phenomena, but it does make sense.

 

[jyearta]

It sounds like your meds. need to be increased, or possible changed.

You said your déjà uv are getting worse. You need to call your Dr. and get these under control. There are so many meds. and we all react diff. to the diff. meds