Lag?

[Rae1889]

Today is an odd day. When ever i turn my head, everything lags. Like a half second before the visual changes. Almost like Im swimming,

Im not exactly dizzy, but thats the only way i can describe it. not a spinning sensation, more like a bobbing sensation. Im also not nauseas... Anyone else get this?

 

[Endless]

I get a type of dizzy that is like being in a boat before I have my sea legs. Everything moves like the sea, swaying and dipping (sort of). It's not like any of the other typical descriptions of dizzy.

The lag thing... water again. I've described it to my epi - it feels like my brain is under water, I'm thinking underwater, moving under water... He just looks at me like I'm nuts. I thought it was the IIH (my other neurological disease, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension), but now that you have written your post, I'm wondering if it's a side effect of the meds. I'm on Lamictal. What are you on again?

 

[Rae1889]

Not on anything at the moment. but it is exactly how you described it. Maybe its a pre-ictal or post-ictal feeling? or a seizure itself (if so this one has been 2 hours long)

 

[Aicila]

I always blamed it on drugs. Not on seizure meds because I was never on those until recently, but on others because I have a really low tolerance to any type of medications, even over the counter headache or allergy ones. Interesting...

 

[Nakamova]

I get a feeling like that from lamictal, but not all the time.

 

[Loopy Lou]

I get that sort of lag, underwater feeling sometimes as a partial, usually accompanied by a feeling that my head is expanding and is full of empty space. I can't understand what people are saying when it happens and find it difficult to talk or type. Usually only lasts up til about 30 seconds though. I've had the odd one that goes up to a minute or so, but that's not very often.

 

[Chel]

I get this feeling as if I'm suddenly 7 feet tall, but thought that came under Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. Also, because I have a vertebral artery stenosis, sometimes I lose my balance; I don't always know what comes from E and what comes from the stenosis. Lately, if I shut my eyes, I'm not quite where I expect to be when I open them. My head and my body are definitely not in synch! Don't know if I'm describing the same experience as you are.

 

[Endless]

Not on anything at the moment. but it is exactly how you described it. Maybe its a pre-ictal or post-ictal feeling? or a seizure itself (if so this one has been 2 hours long)

I think for me it is either the IIH or the meds. The IIH that I have has symptoms that are very much like a brain tumor. That's why they used to call it "psudotumor cerebri." I think brain damage of some sort, or a tumor, could also cause the under-water feeling.

For some it could also be related to seizures. I'd guess temporal lobe seizures? I dunno. When I have the Alice-in-wonderland thing time, distance, speed, size can warp. But things don't look blurry like underwater like they do for the IIH. So I'm clueless.

Our disorder (epilepsy) and our meds are so complex and so difficult to understand. It's hard to find cause-and-effect relationships, or explanations of why what's happening is happening. It drives me nuts sometimes. For some stuff there isn't even anything in the neurology/epilepsy textbooks about most stuff.