So to shorten things up. .
Diagnosis: Simple partial Seizures
Symptoms: Trigger, deja vu, memories, intense stomach upset, nausea, afterwards no memory of trigger or deja vu memory, grogginess, headache, slight confusion but completely aware of my surroundings
EEG: normal
MRI: normal
Treatment: low dosage of Keppra
Meet back with my neuro in 3mo to check up on me.
Diagnosis: Simple partial Seizures
Symptoms: Trigger, deja vu, memories, intense stomach upset, nausea, afterwards no memory of trigger or deja vu memory, grogginess, headache, slight confusion but completely aware of my surroundings
EEG: normal
MRI: normal
Treatment: low dosage of Keppra
Meet back with my neuro in 3mo to check up on me.
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Hi Brown Cow,
So glad to hear you were able to move forward with this, I hope the treatment works for you. I've been lucky to never have more than 2 episodes in a day and that only happened once or twice. Mostly they are weeks or months apart.
Thanks for your update.
So glad to hear you were able to move forward with this, I hope the treatment works for you. I've been lucky to never have more than 2 episodes in a day and that only happened once or twice. Mostly they are weeks or months apart.
Thanks for your update.
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Oooh, I just looked up Simple partial seizures and found they mention four versions... Motor, Sensory, Autonomic and Psychic. I'm pretty sure that Psychic is our affliction. Here's the description from Johns Hopkins Medicine:
Psychic – A simple partial seizure with psychic symptoms affects parts of the brain that trigger emotions or previous experiences: it may cause feelings of fear, anxiety, déjà vu (the feeling that something has been experienced before), etc.
Psychic – A simple partial seizure with psychic symptoms affects parts of the brain that trigger emotions or previous experiences: it may cause feelings of fear, anxiety, déjà vu (the feeling that something has been experienced before), etc.
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This has been happening to me for the last ~10 years (I'm only 26), brought on by weird sensory-related scenarios: waiting for a traffic light, a street lamp being on in the day time, or someone going on the loudspeaker at a grocery store. Recently, it's been happening to me at my desk at work (3 times yesterday) which has rarely happened before. I never thought to Google it since I had NO IDEA what was going on or how to describe the sensation - it's comforting to know others share this experience. Usually it starts with an intense deja-vu sensation, like a flashback that feels like I'm remembering a dream that has not actually happened, or I don't remember happening. Then vision is blurry, I feel lightheaded and very strange with a wave of nausea. It is almost like an out of body experience. Always happens within less than a minute, and after 5 minutes of deep breaths and sipping water I am back to normal. These occurrences happen in waves - for weeks it may never happen and then 4x in one day. Why are human brains so weird?! Probably going to see a neurologist to confirm all is well.
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Welcome to the club of wierd :)
Over the years I've tried to get a hold of the 'dream' that I am remembering when it happens as it always feels like the same theme. However, it is fleeting and I am yet to remember anything once the sensation passes. I'd be interested if anyone has been able to write anything down while in the moment or if they are able to remember afterwards.
Over the years I've tried to get a hold of the 'dream' that I am remembering when it happens as it always feels like the same theme. However, it is fleeting and I am yet to remember anything once the sensation passes. I'd be interested if anyone has been able to write anything down while in the moment or if they are able to remember afterwards.
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I have had all of the same symptoms. I personally have hypoglycemia also. My instance seems to be related to people's suggestions of C1 and C2 bones in my neck being displaced and psychic simple partial seizures. I was in an accident years ago that left me with chronic neck pain so it seems likely that is part of the cause for me as well as the psychic simple partial seizures. (I have not been diagnosed with either FYI) Touching on someone's suggestions that there is a psychic phenomenon involved - I have always felt this way over the years but one time I was actually watching a live interview of Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers. I knew what he was going to say before he said it and I was actually reciting it word for word at the same time he was - even before he did. Every single time I have had an episode I replay the same exact word for word situation in my head... I do not know if it really happened or not but it is my mom and my sister talking to me like I was a kid and I just did something wrong... I always want to write it down after work but it goes blank before I get a chance.
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Oh. It is so good to hear both of you!!!! So good! I thought - well I was chalking it up to a particular kid of panic attack. But when I explain it to people I get blank stares. You both describe very very similar experiences to what happens with me. I'm so relieved to not be alone.
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Regarding the displacement of bones in the neck, I have also read this before. However, this is my experience on that topic...
I have a good friend who is a chiropractor and have been adjusted every week or two for 15 years or more. As a result, spinally, I'm in pretty good nick. During this time, nothing really changed for me as far as the episodes go. So for me at least, I don't think the deja vu is related to my neck.
I have a good friend who is a chiropractor and have been adjusted every week or two for 15 years or more. As a result, spinally, I'm in pretty good nick. During this time, nothing really changed for me as far as the episodes go. So for me at least, I don't think the deja vu is related to my neck.
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I have the same issue! It seems like I'm remembering a dream, a recall a strong smell of peanuts (or sometimes something else)and then a series on nonsense memories go through my head but paralize me simultaneously. My arms get hot and tingly, i feel dizzy and nautious, pannicked and out of control. My mind is racing through 'memories' while i feel slow motion in body. I used to have these episodes maybe 10 or more years ago, I'm on anxiety medication and haven't experienced it for a while and had basically forgot about it. Tonight it has happened 6x in an hour and a half. It exhausts you physically abd mentally after maybe 2 minutes that feels like forever. I have to sit completely still, concentrate on having the sensation pass; simultaneously trying to figure out where the deja-vous of it all came from. Its quite stressful..i can't turn it off.
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It’s very uncomfortable. I went to a Club Med and spent almost the entire time in a state of reliving a dream state. It’s unfathomable but it’s a real condition that we all experience. Thank God for this forum.
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I had this happen over a year ago, then I blacked out. Long story short...I now have a pacemaker. The sinus node in my heart wasn't functioning properly and I had "pauses" in my heartbeat of 5 or more seconds. The longest one before the pacemaker was 13 seconds.
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I blacked out twice and my employers thought I had a substance abuse problem. How do you explain this to someone???
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Mine was a problem with the sinus node in my heart...I now have a pacemaker and no more problems...all of these comments sound like what I experienced...deja vu, extreme nausea, sweating..
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