Can you provide more indepth information, please, Mllie?
----- Original Message -----
From: mylmy@bnin.net
To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [epilepsy] What Is Happening To Me?
Pat,
I found out that a TIA and some szs are very much alike and it
is hard to tell them apart.
Millie
> Well, Mike - how does my Neuro discover if i have this Jamais Vu???
>
> And another poster said absence petit mall seizures when I sit here at my
> computer and all of a sudden 'zone out'.
>
> Then another person said TIAs when I'm driving, which personally, is what
> my gut tells me...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Lambdin
> To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 9:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [epilepsy] What Is Happening To Me?
>
>
> Pat,
>
> What you are experiencing is Jamais Vu (you don't recognize things that
> should be familiar) - the opposite of Deja Vu. I've been having similar
> episodes for about 12 months - a new symptom after being diagnosed with
> epilepsy some 40 years ago. It has happened when driving, at home, at
> work, etc. Like yourself, there is never a feeling of panic because I
> instinctively know what is happening. "surreal" is a very good
> description of how one feels. My episodes last less than a minute. An
> increase in the amount of Keppra that I take has gotten these episodes
> under control.
> A normal EEG doesn't, necessarily, prove or disprove anything in regards
> to these events.
>
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> From: pat040394 <ltpat228@comcast.
> To: epilepsy@yahoogroup
> Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2009 8:38:29 AM
> Subject: [epilepsy] What Is Happening To Me?
>
> About 3 months ago I was driving at night en route to pick up my
> brother.
> I was on a familiar major highway for a little while then got off at
> the usual exit...when all of a sudden I didn't know where I was nor
> where I was headed. There were lots of bright lights from gas
> stations and restaurants and I didn't feel panicky - almost surreal
> as if I was watching a movie.
> I knew I was on that road for a reason and maybe 45 seconds later I
> remembered I was going to get my brother. I got him just fine yet on
> the ride home, I got off at another well known exit and soon as I
> entered the brightly lit street, poof, again my mind went blank.
>
> I was too embarrassed and mortified to tell any one and waited 10
> days and finally made an appt with
> my Neurologist who ordered an EEG which returned normal.
>
> Now 2 nights ago after spending an evening inside Chuck E Cheese's
> with my 8-1/2 year old grandson...soon after I pulled out on to the
> big road with all the lights, I flat out did not know why I was there
> nor where I was going.
> I will say I felt VERY disconcerted that my grandson was in the car
> and I'm zoning out! I kept my hand on his knee for comfort [he didn't
> know what was happening] - and within 25 seconds I managed to
> understand where I was by seeing familiar stores and got us home
> safely.
> During this 3rd episode I felt as if the road was heading
> upwards...you know, like I was slowly traveling up a hill? And I live
> in South Florida where there aren't even tall ant mounds - ha ha!
>
> I just don't get it!
>
> No headaches, no recent new meds at all with these incidences.
>
> I have perused the Internet and see where I definitely relate to
> deja vu, not so much with these episodes, yet my entire life in
> general, ever since I was a young child.
> Baffling.
>
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