Images/thoughts bringing on auras?

[RunningGirl85]

Okay, I know, I am just full of questions! Here's another one, and I just want to see if I'm not the only one, or maybe I just have too much time on my hands and have been overthinking every little thing, or maybe I'm just losing my mind, but here goes.

I have noticed since I started on medicine (Keppra) I haven't really been getting auras like I was, but I've still been getting them (a couple of them were like the ones I'm accustomed to, but they seem different for the most part). So, this is going to sound weird to explain.... But certain things seem to bring about that fluttery/rising weird feeling in my stomach that I get as the beginning of an aura, but then it kind of just goes away instead of elevating to anything else (medicine working, maybe)... Like, certain words/things I see. For example, hair.... The razer in my shower is an example. For awhile, whenever I looked at it in the morning, I would get that weird feeling in my stomach. Or when I would see a commercial for anything hair related (including razers) Gosh this sounds crazy to explain, so I'm going to use an example that doesn't sound as weird.

This morning I woke up not feeling well, and I was feeling rather dizzy... Usually I feel that way in the couple of couple of hours after taking my medicine, but I hadn't taken it yet this morning. The music on my phone sounded oddly far away... I kinda freaked out, because that had never happened to me... took my medicine and laid down. I felt better, but then I was walkiing to an appointment, and there was a guy wearing a fire company shirt, and for some reason, every time I looked at it, my heart felt like it was beating faster, and I had that rising feeling in my stomach, and yes, maybe some familiarity for no good reason. Prior to this I had a short moment of deja vu while talking to someone. I also had a strange taste in my mouth. I was feeling lightheaded/dizzy/out of it at this point as well (when I saw the fire shirt), but I had taken my medicine an hour prior, so that seemed normal. Anyway, I sat down, and just felt weird. Walking back to my room, it is raining outside, but all of the colors seemed especially vivid (more so than usual). But anyway, that was probably unrelated. So now since this morning everytime I think about that shirt, or the word "fire," I start getting the same feeling in my stomach... But it never progresses.

I don't recall this ever happening before... I feel like I'm going crazy. Like, does anyone else ever feel like they get auras or anything triggered by looking at a particular object/item? Or is this just me? Does the idea of "fire" just make me anxious? lol. GAH. I need to get back to working again so I can stop having so much time to think about EVERY. LITTLE. THING...

 

[RunningGirl85]

I should also mention I woke up this morning feeling quite nauseous... And no, I'm not pregnant

 

[Krista2882]

Hmm... this is interesting. Has this happened before today with anything else? Like the hair thing? That was before today, right? Do the same things always bother you- like certain colors, certain sounds, certain textures?
I read about something called Sensory Perception Disorder (used to be known as Sensory Integration Disorder), where your brain doesn't know how to handle certain sounds, tastes, textures, lights, etc. People with this disorder are either hyper-sensitive or hypo-sensitive. It can cause a great deal of stress, and stress can be a trigger for seizures. This disorder usually manifests in childhood, and many adults who have it usually developed coping mechanisms over time to be able to handle it. So I dunno... if it's something that literally just started, then it's probably not that. But if you think back and you've had sensory problems since you were a kid, those things (like the color of the fireman's shirt, or the texture of hair) could just cause you a lot of stress, which could then cause you to have a seizure.

 

[RunningGirl85]

The hair thing was before today, though it seems to have gone away. None of this really started until recently... Which is why I can't help but wonder if I'm just over-thinking things and making links where they don't really exist. I was a psychology major in college, so I know it's easy for that to happen, hehe, and right now I am not working (had to leave deployment because of the seizure, and now I'm just sort of in waiting), and am here solely for medical purposes. Now I'll be psychoanalyzing myself! Ahhh!

But seriously, I think I was having partials today, so that might be what was happening... I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night, and I'm pretty sensitive to changes in my sleep schedule (SO incompatible with the military!) Thinking about it now isn't bothering me anymore, though it was really bothering me earlier while I was typing my original post... Maybe my medicine hadn't started working yet? Though I don't know why it was THAT shirt that bothered me (maybe it was just coincidence?) I did used to be afraid of fire, back when I was a KID, but not anymore, so who knows...

 

[Nakamova]

It may be tough to untangle what's going on: It could be seizures, Keppra side effects, both, neither...

Keppra can increase anxiety and make you hyperactive, so that's one possible explanation. About 5% of folks on Keppra experience nausea, so you could be one of the lucky 5%, or it could be seizure-related instead.

 

[RunningGirl85]

Hm, yeah, I was just dealing with the nausea again (though I wasn't having the other fun side effects besides feeling dizzy), so I AM wondering if it was Keppra related... or related to what I ate last night, but it's been so off and on today, who knows. I swear, it's all so off and on, so frustrating!

I felt great all of Saturday (like, not moody, emotional, nothing... probably because I slept ten hours on Friday night), and most of yesterday until the evening when I got really tired, and started feeling short flashes of weirdness (that's how I'm going to describe it), and then today has just been off and on. Bleh...

 

[acpollard2010]

i get the short flashes of weirdness and i think we all overanalize some bit.nausea i get that from keppra bad i hate it cause it leads to seizures.

 

[Hand of Blood]

i always get it where colours are very bright to me and everything seems very high in contrast! i would get de ja vu when looking at certin things but everytime i get that i lways imagion i had a sezure b4

maybe u worry about the fire shirt thing because it just hapened at that time and now when u think on it u just panic about that time?

hope u feel ok.

 

[RunningGirl85]

Hand of Blood, that sounds exactly like what was happening with me. Maybe I was having a partial when I first saw it (which would make sense if I was having other similar feelings earlier in the morning, since I tend to have several of them within a few hours/days of each other), which brought on anxiety later when I thought about it - and THAT might be a result of me KNOWING that I was having partials to begin with (I just kind of ignored them before for the most part unless they were lasting for a long time).