Is this a seizure

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I've only ever had partial and complex partial seizures. The last few days I've had what I thought was an anxiety attack or a burst of high blood pressure. Just silly little things have been setting it off. They feel a little like my normal seizures but no aura and no loss of consciousness. I'm having pressure in my chest that moves up to my head and as soon as it's over a brutal headache. The headache feels very much like a post ictal one. Anyone ever experience this?
 
sometimes I am aware, I hear others telling me everything is ok, to relax, but I see into a tunnel, can't respond and or move. I feel what is going on, I know I have punched myself. obviously I have knocked my self out before. This is really what scares me, I bounce everywhere,and contort the body and then my back is out for a few days. I usually know during the day that the evening is going to be a big one! Just today I was eating dinner and blurrted something out and jerked a bit, and played it off, but I know my brother saw it. I did get my epilepsy advocacy magazine to strategically leave around the house.
 
I get stomach pain, vertigo and lovely head pressure most days. I don't know if its pre or post ictal but i am guessing you are having my kind of auras. It just depends though because anxiety can be the culprit too--i differentiate anxiety from seizure "stuff" by my state of mind. Were you calm?
 
yeah I was calm at the time having dinner. I would say I was not in a comfortable state. My brothers new girlfriend was having dinner and I am not sure she is too keen on me. I realize that I sometimes it is not reality and it is in my head. This line is clouded too much for my liking. I do not get headaches, well I assumed it was because I hit myself, but maybe not always. I normally do not get headaches but as a child they were always right above my kneck around the ears.
 
Does anyone know about PBK eye or lasik surgery doing having anything to do with causing seizures? I had this done a few years ago,and thinking about how tramatic it was.. I am going to do a bit of research.
Tramatic at the time, but the results as far as vision is great.
 
Thanks No Shame,

I have not been calm, but they're such silly things upsetting me. I'll try to keep an eye on what's going on right before. I even had one in my sleep last night. I was dreaming of my crazy mother so again still stress even though I was sleeping. I've increased my medication so It could be quite possible that it's a new aura or that I'm just more aware. Thanks again.
 
Yeah when i was an AED, i couldnt tell if i felt more or less anxious then before! I know when i started Keppra at 500mg i cried for 2 weeks (was very sad), and then again, when i increased to 1000 mg, i cried for 1 week. But these crying spells seem to come and go before meds so...! Also, i noticed my seizures got worse--like i went to a nightclub and couldnt look at the strobe lights, when b4 i could w/o problem. And i had several occasions (in the 1st 3 wks of medication) that the ground seemed to tilt up towards me at 45 degrees. I am not looking forward to those side effx again, but ahem...i will do what's best for me and plunge through it!
 
boy we should list what it is that just sets us off. those little things
 
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