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Do you get seizures?
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28 Sep 2010, 6:48 pm

Scoots5012 wrote:
What do people do when they have so called "absence siezures". I've heard a little about them, but I don't want to say I have them unless someone else can corroberate what I have to say.

I have "episodes" that happen a lot at here at school where it seems like my brain totally shuts down for a short period of time, How long I can't say, but usually for a couple of seconds. Everything suddenly becomes really distant to me. I can still see and hear, but I'm not perceiving anything. I can see something, but not make out what it is. I can hear something, but not understand what is being said. That part is most agravating becasue I'll miss out on that part of the lecture and then be lost.

As a kid my parents told I would blank out a lot and they would do the old hand wave infront of my face to get me back to earth.

Does this sound familar to anyone.


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http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/seizures/absence.html

http://www.sportsconcussions.org/

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/adhd/adhd.htm (ADHD Inattentive)

Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)

http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/auditory.html
http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-5/auditory.htm



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28 Sep 2010, 7:41 pm

I've had seizure like symptoms since I was a child, never tonic-clonic but enough to get me sent to my doctor a half dozen times before I finished high school. Going to be seeing a neurologist in the next month, maybe ill finally find out what all these episodes have been about.

I get all the symptoms for simple partial and also a few not listed. The strange ones are: colors when I read (not like synesthesia), distortions in perception of time on the small scale (feels like everything is moving in slow motion for a few seconds), and lastly something that happens in my sleep, where before I wake up It feels as though waves of electricity are washing over my senses, rhythmically, until all I can perceive is the rhythm and a very loud static, then I wake up with a violent jolt and a gasp for air, startled, disoriented (sometimes with very odd and delusional thinking for brief periods of time), and completely exhausted. More than once I've woken up so disoriented that I couldn't for-the-life-of-me figure out how to turn off my alarm clock. I also wake up with headaches almost daily (I don't know if its related). Weird stuff :shrug:


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