Mmmmkay...

[MrE]

Well I had my hearing test the other morning and turns out it's fine if not damn near perfect...so whatever is going on with me is probably all in my head??? The best way I can describe it is like a "strange bubble pressure tunnel vision box"...just weird...I've come to the conclusion and accepted the fact that is in fact my brain playing tricks on me and doesn't have anything to do with my actual ears...not to mention the side effects of my medication (Depakote ER)...I workout often and wonder if I am over-exerting myself...I notice when I'm pumping hard and fast my senses start to become distorted (quit being a pervert)...I mean I am not over-doing it I believe but I've cut my sets in half for the time being...the reason why I mentioned this is because I am aware of certain unsettling effects one can experience from working out/exerting oneself in relation to the human/mind body connection...even if you are working out very lightly (but especially if you have a medical condition)...whatever the primary cause may be I do not believe it is related to my diet...I eat healthy and drink enough water daily...my sleep patterns however are kind of fucked...but that is because of the damn mania...I take Epsom salt baths to help calm myself down and relax...I also massage myself using various techniques (there you go again...pervert)...come to think of it I think I know what the "strange bubble pressure tunnel vision box" might be...I keep forgetting to adjust the pressure in my spaceship every time I leave Earth and come back...my bad...but I can't help it...having "E" makes me forget things...apparently...and maybe is the insidious culprit to my sensory deception (uoıʇdǝɔɹǝd)...no it is for a fact you say???



Well okay then let's put this mystery to a rest...*looks up phone number to planet "E"...oh wait wrong number I already am on planet "E"...okay then...let me just "E-T PHONE HOME"

 

[masterjen]

Before you consider the sensation you are experiencing is all in your head, get you ears checked by a medical specialist who deals with ears, either an otolaryngolist or otologist. Your issue of "being in a bubble" might be earwax, blocked eustachian tubes, or something of that nature.

 

[MrE]

Before you consider the sensation you are experiencing is all in your head, get you ears checked by a medical specialist who deals with ears, either an otolaryngolist or otologist. Your issue of "being in a bubble" might be earwax, blocked eustachian tubes, or something of that nature.

NOPE! That's not it either...I should of mentioned that I went to an ENT (sorry)...they did the hearing test there...they stuck their toys in my ears and they are crystal clear/clean...so yeah what else ya got?

 

[Meetz1064]

Did you

ever consider that it might be another type of seizure?

 

[MrE]

ever consider that it might be another type of seizure?

Lol so you're saying that I am in a constant 24/7 nonstop state of seizure? I don't know of any seizures that last forever...do you? :lol:

Let me reiterate what I meant...this experience is occurring all the time...maybe I am trapped in some sort of weird twilight zone?

 

[Endless]

It's important to tell your doctor about symptoms like your bubble pressure tunnel vision box. It could be one of many things, some of which your neurologist can help with.

Do you have headaches? Some migraine auras can feel like that. Some can last a long time.

Yes, it is possible to have a simple partial seizure that lasts days. It's called status epilepticus partialis continua. Although to have it last months or years would be unusual.

I can't remember which medication you are on? Some anti-seizure meds have some pretty strange side effects. Just because a side effect isn't common doesn't mean it can't happen to you.

There are other diseases that can mimic epilepsy and can cause things like warping of the senses. An example is Intracranial Hypertention, where the cerebral spinal fluid pressure in the head is too high. It presses on the nerves in the brain, ears, eyes, and makes for some pretty odd symptoms. A good neurologist would screen you for other diseases when he hears that you have the vision thing going on. Also consider having your eyes checked out, just in case.

Another possibility is postictal psychosis. This symptom is a direct result of electrical seizure activity in the brain. People rarely talk about it but it's fairly common in E patients. From time to time it's a hot topic in the forum, as it should be. About 8% of people with epilepsy experience it so the information should be right out there for people to understand, in order to help manage their health and their life.

These are pretty good summaries:
http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/progress_psychosis.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265810/

A possible association between epilepsy and psychosis was first recognized in antiquity but gained attention in the middle of the nineteenth century with the writings of Benedict Morel80 and Jules Falret.81 Hill,82 in 1953, made the first modern report of a schizophrenia-like syndrome in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
Interictal psychosis




Psychosis in epilepsy can occur during interictal and postictal periods. The prevalence of interictal psychosis (IIP) in epilepsy ranges from 0% to 16%, with a mean of 7–8%.83,84 Compared to schizophrenia, IIP may be associated with a greater incidence of:85,86

• empathic persecutory delusions
• auditory hallucinations
• appropriate affect
• suicidality
• lack of autistic traits

As compared to patients with only epilepsy, those with IIP have:86

• later age of onset of epilepsy
• more complex partial seizures
• more auras
• less generalized epilepsy

Some have found that seizure onset is typically 18 to 21 years before the onset of psychosis,87,88 but other evidence suggests that both sets of symptoms begin at the same time.89 Some studies show that TLE of dominant laterality is positively correlated with IIP,90,91 but other studies demonstrate a positive correlation with bitemporal foci85 or no correlation with laterality.92
Postictal psychosis




Postictal psychosis (PIP) is characterized by fluctuating combinations of symptoms:89,93

• delirium
• persecutory and other delusions
• auditory, visual, and other hallucinations
• affective changes

Postictal psychosis generally follows a lucid interval that lasts from 2 to 72 hours. Postictal confusion, on the other hand, is typically maximal immediately or shortly after a seizure or cluster of seizures.93
Some studies have found that bilateral seizure foci and clustering of seizures are significantly associated with episodes of PIP.84,93 Other studies have found that generalized seizures93 and complex partial seizures89,94 were associated with PIP.
Drug withdrawal can be temporally associated with PIP and IIP, probably by increasing seizure frequency in most cases.86,93,94
Can recurrent PIP evolve into chronic IIP? Logsdail and Toone89 found minimal evidence of progression from PIP to IIP in their patients. Alper et al., however, found that about 15% of patients with PIP went on to develop an interictal psychosis (K. Alper, personal communication).

 

[MrE]

It's important to tell your doctor about symptoms like your bubble pressure tunnel vision box. It could be one of many things, some of which your neurologist can help with.

Do you have headaches? Some migraine auras can feel like that. Some can last a long time.

Yes, it is possible to have a simple partial seizure that lasts days. It's called status epilepticus partialis continua. Although to have it last months or years would be unusual.

I can't remember which medication you are on? Some anti-seizure meds have some pretty strange side effects. Just because a side effect isn't common doesn't mean it can't happen to you.

There are other diseases that can mimic epilepsy and can cause things like warping of the senses. An example is Intracranial Hypertention, where the cerebral spinal fluid pressure in the head is too high. It presses on the nerves in the brain, ears, eyes, and makes for some pretty odd symptoms. A good neurologist would screen you for other diseases when he hears that you have the vision thing going on. Also consider having your eyes checked out, just in case.

Another possibility is postictal psychosis. This symptom is a direct result of electrical seizure activity in the brain. People rarely talk about it but it's fairly common in E patients. From time to time it's a hot topic in the forum, as it should be. About 8% of people with epilepsy experience it so the information should be right out there for people to understand, in order to help manage their health and their life.

These are pretty good summaries:
http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/progress_psychosis.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265810/

Wow Endless thanks for all of this information!

I take Depakote ER 1,000mg a day...I have a 3x4cm Arachnoid Cyst in my right temporal lobe...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnoid_cyst

but are you saying that I experience Temporal Lobe Epilepsy because my diagnosis is Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (with partial complex symptoms I believe)...staring spells/disorientation...loss of awareness and I go into these "altered states" where I'm like leaving my body and going into some other dimension or surrounded by an intense wave of energy...music enhances this effect but I'm a musician so yeah that's no mystery...ever since I was a kid I have felt connected to certain things...like certain sounds and frequencies...they "activate" something within me that causes me to feel like I'm going crazy or hallucinating...but I know I am not and it is very real...after all reality is interpreted by the individual viewer...it is not a generalized concept...I can also pick up on things...like predict or feel when something just isn't right...hear faint talking or whispering...I see the same numbers over and over again...on clocks mostly...but this is a phenomenon other people experience too...check this out...

http://www.crystalinks.com/11.11.html


I am a spiritual person myself and I do believe strange things can happen to the body and mind if the spirit is not grounded...after all some people with epilepsy are considered to be "shamans" in other cultures...I also believe that when the spirit is connected to higher/deeper level of itself wonderful and beautiful things can happen...for example I experience things I cannot begin to describe...like a shower of light and this warm sensation that everything is okay...call it what you will or explain it as you want scientifically...I never question it but always go with it...it keeps me strong and focused on the things that really matter to me in life...my passions

however...I do feel the complete opposite sometimes (but I know it is a test to see if I will break)...like an endless void of nothing...a black hole...there is nothing there...not even nothing...nothing makes sense...it's just a huge mess of random endless nothingness...the senses are not even there so how I am aware of it? It's like there is some other sense that exists outside of nothing? After all what really is consciousness? and does everything exist simply because we are aware of it? Like right now you are aware and awake and conscious (but what is all that...really???)...but if you weren't...does that mean that nothing exists or that you simply are not aware of it???...meh I think I give myself headaches sometimes and yes I do experience headaches often...

I am also "bipolar"...or so they say...but my wife is studying the brain and psychology in school and believes that it could be something else...she even thought I was schizophrenic one time...from a physiological standpoint...(but she is also spiritual like me and believes that science and spirituality are simply different ways of looking at the same thing)...but my condition seems to warp and evolve...nobody can pinpoint it...maybe it's just me being myself? I am a mutation and people can't understand or accept that...except my wife

I get "vibrations" in my forehead a lot...which spiritually would be interpreted as my "third eye" opening up...like right now...I can feel a strong pulsing vibration right between my eyebrows...and feel like I'm in a higher state of awareness...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini_syndrome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_eye



I know this for a fact because I prayed for my wife to come to me and one day she had a vision of me before we even met...she heard my voice calling out to her...literally (I chose to believe)

 

[Endless]

MrE,

That is simply amazing. Thank you so much for sharing. I really like your links, too. There's a lot to think about. I've been wondering for some time about the relationship between quantum physics and epilepsy, which they talk about in an indirect way in one of the sub-links.

I believe, like your wife does, that science and spirituality are trying to describe the same things, just from a different angle. Psychic phenomena is very common among people with temporal lobe epilepsy. Science says it's just a symptom or a problem, spirituality says it is a special gift that brings us closer to the greatest of mysteries. It's an improved brain, one with a direct line to aspects of the universe that not every brain has.

These links are to some more info on psychic seizures. The first one is more reputable, but I find the second far more interesting.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7354/
http://neurotheology.50megs.com/whats_new_9.html

 

[MrE]

MrE,

That is simply amazing. Thank you so much for sharing. I really like your links, too. There's a lot to think about. I've been wondering for some time about the relationship between quantum physics and epilepsy, which they talk about in an indirect way in one of the sub-links.

I believe, like your wife does, that science and spirituality are trying to describe the same things, just from a different angle. Psychic phenomena is very common among people with temporal lobe epilepsy. Science says it's just a symptom or a problem, spirituality says it is a special gift that brings us closer to the greatest of mysteries. It's an improved brain, one with a direct line to aspects of the universe that not every brain has.

These links are to some more info on psychic seizures. The first one is more reputable, but I find the second far more interesting.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7354/
http://neurotheology.50megs.com/whats_new_9.html

Yeah interesting stuff...indeed the universe is a mysterious place...we all believe what we want to believe and that's what makes it interesting