Hi Corine,
What you are describing doesn't sound like an aura to me. It sounds like a simple partial seizure. Click below to read about simple partial seizures. Let us know if what is said might be what you are feeling. Take care keep a smile on your face!
Steve
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> Hello. I'm wondering if what I experience is a common thing for a lot of you. I get a warning before my seizures that is a feeling of my stomach coming up. Then my knees kind of press together. The final symptom is the back of my neck tightens. The back of my neck starts tightening at the bottom, then by the time it's at the top of my neck the full thing hits. Does this sound like a general warning some of you get? I go into my hand/arm violently shaking, my legs pull up and my body shakes. I have partial and occasional complex seizures.
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> Also, I'm scheduled to see an epileptologist in February. My family doctor had his nurse called me after reading the EEG results and referred me to a neurologist because she said I was having seizures. The nurse there asked my husband and me what my "spells" were like and if I get a headache after. She told us it was definitely seizures. On my first visit with the neurologist, she sent notes back to my family doctor stating it was anxiety. The next time we saw her, she called it complex partial seizures. After seeing her again, she said she didn't read the EEG - her colegue did. Since then she has been very vague and calling them "spells". So I made an appointment with an epileptologist to get a specialist's opinion. We are very disappointed with the neurologist. Does this sound like a common story to any of you? Corkie
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