I am happy to have found this forum...I have a long history of epilepsy, with lots of problems and issues, and always find it easier to get along when there are people like me to talk to.
In 1981, I had a grand mal seizure, which led to an eventual diagnosis of complex partial epilepsy, although it was a very long road getting there. We figured I'd been having partial seizures all my life; they are just so very much like my dissociative symptoms, that they are hard to recognize.
When I miss my meds (forget or can't afford--I'm on Topamax), I often have visual hallucinations that my neurologist believes are seizures. They are dark shapes varying in size from a bug to a mouse, that move across my field of vision.
I also have had in the past (and just the last two nights had them again) auditory hallucinations, and am wondering if they could be seizures as well. The ones I had this week are identical to those I had before. They occurred in that state between sleep and wakefulness; the first was someone calling my name; the second was the sound of someone pounding on a door.
There's also an accompanying feeling of fear with these.
Hope to meet you all, and look forward to chatting with you!
Ravensong
In 1981, I had a grand mal seizure, which led to an eventual diagnosis of complex partial epilepsy, although it was a very long road getting there. We figured I'd been having partial seizures all my life; they are just so very much like my dissociative symptoms, that they are hard to recognize.
When I miss my meds (forget or can't afford--I'm on Topamax), I often have visual hallucinations that my neurologist believes are seizures. They are dark shapes varying in size from a bug to a mouse, that move across my field of vision.
I also have had in the past (and just the last two nights had them again) auditory hallucinations, and am wondering if they could be seizures as well. The ones I had this week are identical to those I had before. They occurred in that state between sleep and wakefulness; the first was someone calling my name; the second was the sound of someone pounding on a door.
There's also an accompanying feeling of fear with these.
Hope to meet you all, and look forward to chatting with you!
Ravensong