Does this sound like deja vu?

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Aside from the complex partial seizures that I experience severaltimes a month I also have something that I assume is deja vu. These seizures come in clusters of several a day for 2 or 3 days. When one starts the first feeling I get is "here we go again". After that I know something is happening but I have no control over it. I usually end up walking around and eventually my mind clears up and I can start doing what I was doing before it started' Sound familiar to anyone?
 
I get the clusters usually when I experience the deja vu. For me itself more of something just seeming familiar ... like looking at something or hearing something. Then I get kinda confused and wonder if I've really experienced/seen this or if it's an episode of deja vu. Sometimes itself accompanied by other things such as some anxiety/rising stomach in my feeling. If its a stronger feeling of deja vu I might have to stop what I'm doing or have a difficult time with speech, but if I'm having shorter episodes it will usually be a short sensation. Hope that helps :)

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when I have moments of deja-vu, I usually get really scared. I know that I have done it before, I just don't remember how it ended. It freaks me out and I have to get up a move around also. Just so that i can focus on something else. No matter how hard I try, I can't remember what it was that made me feel like I've seen, done, heard or smelled this/that before but when? I only know, I don't like it and don't wanna know how it ends again.....for the second time!
A few seconds/minutes (not sure) go by and I don't even remember what the deja-vu was (seeing, doing, hearing, smelling). I shrug my shoulders laugh/cry to myself and keep on movin. : )

It helps to have someone to talk to sometimes when it happens or after.

Here's a Hug, just in case : )
 
maryltime,

I have the same problem with not even remembering what the deja vu was when it's done. I started writing them down, which is the only way I can remember and explain how I felt.
 
journal

I think the idea of keeping a journal is great. I'll have to keep easily accesible or I'llput off using it and then I'll forget before i write it down. I'll let you know if it helps.
 
RunningGirl85 said:
I get the clusters usually when I experience the deja vu. For me itself more of something just seeming familiar ... like looking at something or hearing something. Then I get kinda confused and wonder if I've really experienced/seen this or if it's an episode of deja vu. Sometimes itself accompanied by other things such as some anxiety/rising stomach in my feeling. If its a stronger feeling of deja vu I might have to stop what I'm doing or have a difficult time with speech, but if I'm having shorter episodes it will usually be a short sensation. Hope that helps :)

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what you're describing sounds EXACTLY what i feel when i have mine, the rising feeling of anxiety. Has anyone seen you have one of those seizures? My partner says make clicking noises with my tongue and my eyes roll back when i have one of the bigger ones... it never feels like i'm doing that when i have partials.
 
RunningGirl85 said:
maryltime,

I have the same problem with not even remembering what the deja vu was when it's done. I started writing them down, which is the only way I can remember and explain how I felt.
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My psychiatrist advised me not to write anything down anymore. He said, that it hightens my events or even makes me anxious. He thinks its anxiety and not seizure activity. The neuro dr doesnt know what to think, I think, but yet he's prescribed 3 meds so far. The only one that helped me is the one that I can't afford which was the lyrica. Im stuck in the middle. Im tired of trying to explain what happens to me. Im tired of them treating me like Im some kind of "Nut". Im tired of it all!!!!!
I just pray that it never gets past what Im experiencing or perhaps if I have the grandmal just once, all of this will end and I wont have any more aura's, dejavu, or any other seizure, partial or whatever activity.. Funny, each time I say that, a symptom (issue) become more intense or I experience something freakin new! This is the only place I can freely talk about what is going on without being judged or thought of as crazy.....so far that is. And if someone thinks Im crazy on here, they haven't said it thus far!.
 
My déjà uv go like this...
Everything be it people , place conservations Everything..seems as if it has happen before.
I know to get to a safe place, knowing a seiZure is coming and it does.

Cazzy, I never put it the panics feeling together with the déjà uv but that ismhowmI feel too.
 
it do trigger bad panic attacks..i going try journel never thought of that b4
 
CrunchyFrog said:
what you're describing sounds EXACTLY what i feel when i have mine, the rising feeling of anxiety. Has anyone seen you have one of those seizures? My partner says make clicking noises with my tongue and my eyes roll back when i have one of the bigger ones... it never feels like i'm doing that when i have partials.
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Hm... I'm boy sure anyone has SEEN when ive had the anxiety-heavy seizures (though i may just not be remembering) but I've been on the phone and spoken to people during those times. I speed up talking and have a hard time saying things correctly.

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This not deja vu, but this is what happens to me in my changing seizure patterns.

My best friend just saw one the other day. We were having lunch with three couples and one of the women was asking a gardening question and she said when I answered I just started talking slow (I knew it, but I could do nothing) and then totally lost my thoughts for a second or two and said nothing and then continued. It was if I was suspended in thought or frozen, but totally unable to pull myself out of it.
 
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I amseeing apsychiatrist next week because I'vehadsomeepisodesthat resemble t/c but they're not because I'm conscious during them. My neurologist said to seea therapist totalk about these possible stress related ep[sodes. I'm going to ask him about the journal idea because Ithought it sounded like a good idea.
 
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