Hi everyone! :hello: I am new to this site and am trying to get some clarification from others with auras and seizures. Let me tell you a little about my history. When I was about 9 or so, I had a grand mal seizure. Since then I have had problems with seizures through out my life. Two years after highschool I had surgery, a right temporal lobectomy. It worked for about three years and then I began to get the really bad stomach aches again. Ever since then I get these feelings of a really bad stomach ache or something similar to a sinus issue, maybe tightening in my face. I don't get the funny taste in my mouth but have other weird feelings. I feel my mouth filling up with an extreme amount of saliva and my tongue moving rapidly in my mouth. Let me say this is a very strange feeling. I do not loose consciousness, can usually talk the whole time and continue doing whatever I am doing. Sometimes it hits a lot stronger than others and I have to stop doing what I am doing at that time. After about a minute or so it stops and I feel like I have been run over by a freight train, completely exhausted and sometimes dazed. I have these episodes all the time but recently had another one at work. I work in a jail and the person I was working with knew I had this happen but never saw it. Monday he experienced this and as to be expected, he FREAKED out. I talked to my Dr. and explained what happened and he said "You had an aura not a seizure". I asked all kinds of questions about what he was saying. I have this feeling about once a month, sometimes once every other month. Now I find out they are just auras is confusing to me. He said they are auras, and can be called simple partial. Isn't that still a seizure and has anyone else experienced this? Please give me any information on this. Thank You in advance! :e: