Re: [epilepsy] **Help Me Understand**

 

Hey, Libby. :)
 
Welcome to our family! I hope you'll find the help, comfort, and camaraderie you're looking for here.
 
My auras involve several sensations, including an intense heartburn-like feeling in my chest, followed by light and sound sensitivity, anxiety/panic, and (on occasion, if it progresses this far) a hallucination of yellow, glittery spots before the GM starts. I have only had about 2 dozen GMs since infancy (I'm 43), but there have been literally thousands of auras, often in clusters, until July, when I started Keppra. Since then, save for a stupid decision to take Zicam for the monster cold/flu my darling husband gave me (from which I am finally recovering after 2 1/2 weeks), there has been no sz activity of any kind. :)
 
LIZ in RI (Lifelong hydrocephalus, epilepsy--finally completely controlled!! More recently dx'ed autoimmune issues linked to yeast overgrowth--being worked on) :)

--- On Fri, 1/1/10, lib.chouinard <candlchouinard@cox.net> wrote:

From: lib.chouinard <candlchouinard@cox.net>
Subject: [epilepsy] **Help Me Understand**
To: epilepsy@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 7:17 PM

 

Hi everyone!

My name is Libby. My aunt is the one who wrote in asking questions about me. I first want to thank you for helping her and the invites to join.
I was diagnosed with complex partial epilepsy and have petit mal seizures. I was hit on the head in the swimming pool at the age of 12. I was contolled right away with topamax for 13 years. I started having seizures again after my 2nd child was born (I did not come of med.s while pregnant). I have seen a neurologist and now a epileptologist. In the last 6-7 years I have been on almost all of the med.s available. I went in for a right temporal lobectomy 2yrs ago with no improvement.
I do have auras. They seem to be a feeling of being scared? I am realizing I may be having a panic or anxiety attack??? I am currently on Lamictal.
I am curious to what others feel when they have an aura?
Thank You again for the chance to join a support group like this.

Libby

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