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[petero]

I'm wondering if phases I have are associated with small seizure episodes

specifically a sudden 'tired' feeling when I'll still have an awareness of what's around, but like ...
well, I've always figured it was daydreaming, a bit like being weightless in water, like sliding down a fuzzy sock encircling my body...

but since having been diagnosed, I'm trying to figure out what may be other seizure types I experience, that I have been experiencing, that I'm not even aware of

but this 'daydream' type I can bring myself out of, but it's almost a painful sort of thing - it's like a wave passing through my body, a sonic-boom clap that is silent, trying to move while completely underwater, being weightless with having nothing to push off from while trying to reach something

this feeling type can persist through external stimuli, external noises, changes and things because they begin to exist outside of this 'sock' thing
and while this goes on it's like I have peripheral perception, eyes crossed-like and non-focused, no focus on surroundings...
at times the "static electricity" sensation can go in waves through my body

overall this entire experience is very soothing - the emergent experience is not soothing

and it's not like a sleepy feeling, it's different
during this time my mind will stay very active, creative and abstract but I probably look slumpy or unaware from an observer's viewpoint

I don't want to hypochondrize myself into making a diary of every time I pass gas thinking it's a seizure ("10:45 a.m. seizure event: very soothing feeling accompanied by aura of strange smell.."), or of every time I'm tired - these sensations feel like neither, especially the first

but I am trying to figure out what is what
and it had been beginning to occur to me that these types of things may actually be petit seizures

 

[Nakamova]

Those could be Simple Partials (rather than petit mals/Absence seizures). The waves of sensation you describe can be a characteristic of temporal lobe epilepsy.

I don't want to hypochondrize myself into making a diary of every time I pass gas thinking it's a seizure ("10:45 a.m. seizure event: very soothing feeling accompanied by aura of strange smell..")

:roflmao:

 

[msuder0583]

I know exactly what you are talking about. I just sort of shrugged them off and consider it something normal (maybe something caused by the meds?) I figured I only had tonic clonic seizures but now I assume that these are simple partials. But I can completely relate to you. Only you describe them much better than what I would be able to.

 

[petero]

:roflmao:

:banana:

 

[petero]

I know exactly what you are talking about. I just sort of shrugged them off and consider it something normal (maybe something caused by the meds?) I figured I only had tonic clonic seizures but now I assume that these are simple partials. But I can completely relate to you. Only you describe them much better than what I would be able to.

ya these things I have considered normal for maybe decades, since I was a kid I'd had things like this - and just recently I figured "wow I've got epilepsy, maybe these other things are related"

and the problem, if any, is - I really enjoy these types of seizures - as an artist I do a lot of abstract cramming at times during these
and I began thinking that maybe being artistic was my mind's way of compensating for, or utilizing these events as I was growing up to the point they just figured in with what I consider "normal"

 

[msuder0583]

Well they are definitely good for that. I can't draw or paint worth a crap, personally. Good writer, but they don't help much with that. In fact I believe that certain composers and artists in the past used them to their advaa\ntage as well. I just like them sometimes because of the euphoric effect, since I don't do drugs. lol. However, sometimes it can be kind of scary because I will have some when I am driving and the so-called static through my body, then I forget where I am for 30-45 seconds. But for the most part, they are ok.