Is it a seizure or migraine?

[ln1]

So...yesterday, I started going into deja vu. It didn't feel like the intense deja vu I experienced as a child when I was having an absence seizure, but it was intense enough for me to know something wasn't quite right and that I needed to get to a safe place.

Soon after, I had a dull headache in the middle of my forehead. I was really sleepy for the rest of the day. This morning, I still have the headache, but it's still dull and now on the left side of my head only.

I've been diagnosed with migraines and when I get them, they are always on my left side, but they've never been mild like this. I've also had various seizures that were clearly seizures.

Yesterday's episode has me a bit stumped.

I don't want to mention every little thing to my neurologist, especially if it's just migraine related, but I also don't want to keep silent if it's something she needs to know.

Anyone have any personal experience with what I described?

 

[Porkette]

Hi ln1,

Years ago I started having migraine headaches and then the seizures started up. Sometimes the headache would last for a day or 2 and it would be enough just to notice and I was tired. My neuro told me that there is a connection between migraines leading to seizures. You may want to let your neuro know what's happening if it continues. Also keep track of the migraines on a calendar to see if there's a pattern with them. I wish you the best of luck and May God Bless You!

Sue

 

[masterjen]

In!- I know we all want to understand everything that happens to us, but I wouldn't worry too much about trying to figure out what this incident was. Just note it in your medical journal where you keep track of your seizures and migraines. If it becomes a recurring event of this pattern, then you will have a record of the frequency to discuss with your doctor.

 

[valeriedl]

A good bit of the time I don't have a simple partial seizure before I have a complex partial, I'll just go strait into it. Many times too I'll forget things that happened shortly before the seizure so I may have had a simple partial but just don't remember having it. If I'm alone then I usually don't know that I've had a seizure at all because I've blacked out.

If I have a headache, which I get after many seizures, and/or I'm very tired sometime during the day then I think that I could have had a seizure, just didn't know.

In my seizure journal I try to write down as much as I know about what happened before, during and after the seizure. I write these ones down as a 'possible seizure' and write down why I think it could have been, like the headache and being tired.

I feel it's important that my neuro knows all these things that way if he thinks he needs to make changes to my meds or VNS then he'll know.

 

[ln1]

Thanks! You've all been helpful.
I've gotten quite a bit of sleep, which has helped a lot.

On a related note...have any of you used Imitrex for migraines? My doctor wrote me a prescription for it several months ago, but I haven't used it yet. I'm sure I'm overthinking it, but sometimes I don't realize I'm having a migraine as opposed to just a headache until the headache becomes intense and I start experiencing eye sensitivity.

My doc says to use it at the onset of the migraine, but if I don't take it as soon as it starts, is it typically not effective? Anyone have experience with that? Thank you.

 

[seagull]

I never know if sz head ache or migraine,I had awful migraine this week for me I finished when migraine spent two days in bed agony and vomiting.if fire in house I not be able do much.
I had couple head aches lately that never went onto migraine but sure they epilepsy medication related

 

[Howll]

If you had the Deja Vu aura I'm guessing it was a seizure. I don't think deja Vu is ever an aura related to migraines.

 

[seagull]

I don't think the Deja vu. is related but you can get strange things before migraine somethings just happen and not related just keep eye on it