How do you feel pre seizure(s)

[Captkev]

Before i had my first grandmal, for about an entire month i had this nauseated feeling, feeling like something bad was coming. And now im afraid im starting to feel the same way. But Im not sure if its the same feeling, if its all my head or just plain nausea. Anyone care to contribute?

 

[Nakamova]

For some folks, the nausea IS part of the seizure itself (mostly in partial seizures). Nausea can also be an early pre-seizure warning symptom. Do you get any other kind of warning or aura, or is the nausea the only thing?

One way to try and figure out if this is "plain" nausea is to keep a journal and see if there's are any likely non-seizure causes for the nausea -- unusual foods or eating patterns, stress, and infection, etc...

 

[Endless]

:agree:

Look here for a bunch of different formats for seizure journals. You could pick the one you think would work best for you.

http://www.coping-with-epilepsy.com/forums/f23/seizure-journals-10776/

 

[Captkev]

Thanks and Ive been trying to keep a journal. I didn't know it was seizures i was having before, but after that last one I'm scared to death of another. The grand mal seizure I had the only thing i remember before is waking up with a migraine headache from Hades. But the other times Ive gotten nauseous the room and whole world seemed to spin then id wake up on the floor. No one ever saw me shake or anything, although a couple of people have said I was smacking my lips, and my lips turned blue. This nausea is something different entirely, its like a feeling in my gut that something bad is coming. Hard to explain but i thought Ive read about people having this feeling of something coming, but at the same time it could just be the fear of waking up in a hospital bed or not waking up at all.

 

[msuder0583]

pre-seizure i'm not sure....i can't really remember my auras. they just come on so fast and unexpected i don't really pay attention

 

[Rae1889]

I dont feel any different at all pre-seizure. Although I am totally out of it, I just dont notice. My spelling is off, my speech is slurred. It literally looks like I am totally tanked. This can last up to 2 hours. Then I'll end up having a TC. only a few times have I escaped with only a CP.

 

[elizzza811]

I usually notice a white coating on my tongue a week or so before my seizure that lasts, feel extremely irritable, almost agitated, and barely sleep. After a seizure I actually feel 'calm' in my disorientation and can finally sleep.

 

[valeriedl]

pre-seizure i'm not sure....i can't really remember my auras. they just come on so fast and unexpected i don't really pay attention

I'm alot like this too.

I usually don't know the seizure is coming on until I have it. Sometimes I just won't feel right, confused or a little dizzy, then bam- I'm having the seizure, I don't have this happen often though, only when it's a little seizure where I don't black out. But I'm mostly like msurder0583.

Alot of times my husband will ask me if I feel alright because I have that "look". I'm not sure what that "look" is but he's usually right. I will be feeling dizzy or confused but I don't realize it's happening unless he says something about it to me.

 

[msuder0583]

agreed.....i dunno. with me i don't really consider it an aura, i think its more of stage 1 in the seizure process. i just stare into space for about 5-10 seconds

 

[valeriedl]

agreed.....i dunno. with me i don't really consider it an aura, i think its more of stage 1 in the seizure process. i just stare into space for about 5-10 seconds

That's pretty much the way I feel about what is happening to me also.

 

[msuder0583]

I mean, I can't say to anyone who has epilepsy that they are lucky but for anyone who have auras consistantly consider yourself lucky. In fact I think I read that Chopin had euphoric auras which helped him in creating his compositions. What I wouldn't give for those