Krista2882
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Hello,
I was reflecting on some things recently...
I had a 4-day EEG about 4 years ago, and they were able to tell me definitively that my seizures (simple partial) come from my frontal lobe (they didn't say, but I'm assuming left side because only the right side of my body is affected). I think my doctor suspected that already because they are motor seizures.
BUT I'm beginning to think that I get simple partials that come from my temporal lobe from time to time. Is that possible? I know a seizure can generalize to the whole brain (which is what happened to me after about 9 years of simple partials, prompting my doctors to put me on meds), but is it also possible that even though I get most of my seizures in my frontal lobe, I get some in my Temporal lobe sometimes? Because I've experienced a lot of those "weirder" types of things that I think are usually temporal lobe (but correct me if I'm wrong):
-Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (something looking like it's closer or farther away than it really is)
-having a strange feeling that I'm watching myself do things in the third person (not like I actually see myself from outside of my body or anything, but I sort of feel like a spectator in my own body or something)
-occasional deja-vu
-hearing voices that aren't there (this happened a few times when I was a kid and was just waking up from sleep, and a few times a few years ago when I was woken up from a totally unrelated dream by what sounded like someone screaming in my ear- of course no one was actually there but it scared the crap out of me so bad I was shaking for like a half hour and I wouldn't move. lol)
That's all I can remember right now. I never noticed if those coincide with my motor seizures because they're usually just short blips and only last for a tiny moment, so I've never really thought much of them other than, "that was weird."
I was reflecting on some things recently...
I had a 4-day EEG about 4 years ago, and they were able to tell me definitively that my seizures (simple partial) come from my frontal lobe (they didn't say, but I'm assuming left side because only the right side of my body is affected). I think my doctor suspected that already because they are motor seizures.
BUT I'm beginning to think that I get simple partials that come from my temporal lobe from time to time. Is that possible? I know a seizure can generalize to the whole brain (which is what happened to me after about 9 years of simple partials, prompting my doctors to put me on meds), but is it also possible that even though I get most of my seizures in my frontal lobe, I get some in my Temporal lobe sometimes? Because I've experienced a lot of those "weirder" types of things that I think are usually temporal lobe (but correct me if I'm wrong):
-Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (something looking like it's closer or farther away than it really is)
-having a strange feeling that I'm watching myself do things in the third person (not like I actually see myself from outside of my body or anything, but I sort of feel like a spectator in my own body or something)
-occasional deja-vu
-hearing voices that aren't there (this happened a few times when I was a kid and was just waking up from sleep, and a few times a few years ago when I was woken up from a totally unrelated dream by what sounded like someone screaming in my ear- of course no one was actually there but it scared the crap out of me so bad I was shaking for like a half hour and I wouldn't move. lol)
That's all I can remember right now. I never noticed if those coincide with my motor seizures because they're usually just short blips and only last for a tiny moment, so I've never really thought much of them other than, "that was weird."
