Intense Deja Vu, followed by lightheadedness and strange feeling

Guest over a year ago

You and I seem to have the same issue. I have not had a pacemaker implanted but I have an implantable heart monitor that shows sinus pauses of 5-12 seconds when I get these flashes and occasional blackouts.

Would you mind explaining a little more about what your doctors have found?

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Guest over a year ago

I’ve been having these awful episodes off and on for 30 years. They went away for a short time but now their back. I start feeling the dejavu I’ll feel the adrenaline start in my stomach it travels up through to my chest and then I feel very lightheaded to the point I feel I will pass out and I’ll start sweating profusely. My head feels really spacey and heavy afterwards and tired. I’ve never passed out. I’ve been experiencing this for 3 days straight now anywhere from 4-8 episodes. I feel like I’m going crazy thoughts going through my head all jumbled up. It’s awful I’m really scared this time because I’ve never had them last more than a day. Its very depressing I just wish I knew WHY??? Thankful I found this site.

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Guest over a year ago

Please update when you can. I’m 57, female. Have hade these episodes for 30 years. More when I was younger then then they stopped. Came back in Jan 2016 and didnt get another one until 11/23/27 2 days ago and have been having them everyday since 4 or more a day. It’s so scary. I want them to stop thank you for this thread it makes me feel a bit better that I’m not alone

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Guest over a year ago

i am so glad to hear I'm not alone. i had a few as a child but not again until 3-4 years ago. I have no triggers.I am a 64 year old woman. I don't get them too often but when I do I get several throughout the day.I got one this morning just after I got up. Extreme deja vu followed by cold then burning sensation in my chest, arms and sometimes my thighs . Sometime my heart feels weird too.Feeling slight nausea all day today. I have had a nagging headache all day. I've had at least 7-8 today and I feel so tired..This is the first time it's done that to me.Thanks everyone for sharing. It really is unnerving!

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Guest over a year ago

My daughter has this and the neurologist think she’s having seizures. Still get diagnosed right now.

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rarest dinner over a year ago

I hope they're not too overwhelming for your daughter, and don't come too frequently. When I first got them at 16 years of age they were a bit full on, but for the 34 years following they have either reduced, or my ability to deal with them has increased. For me, living with them has not been debilitating in any way.

Regarding them being seizures, I had a very minor episode last night while on the PC and although I felt the 'deja vu' feeling, during the episode I knew that I had never experienced this before.

So much as I'd like to think that we all have super powers of prediction and insights to the future, I'm pretty sure they are just small seizures.

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Guest over a year ago

I was excited to find this page recently and find out there are others out there experiencing symptoms similar to mine. I'm a generally healthy 40 year old male in decent shape, exercising at least 6x per week. For about 22 years I have experienced the intense deja vu feeling, sensing that I have seen everything around me previously in a dream, accompanied by lightheadedness. They started shortly after I stopped playing college baseball (couldn't hit the breaking ball) so I thought at first it was a psychological issue related to the disappointment of giving up the game but later decided it probably wasn't. On two occasions, both in the shower, I lost consciousness. Thankfully that hasn't happened in many years now. Afterwards I often feel disoriented and can't think straight for several minutes. I don't have the nausea or weird smells like some on here. My episodes are very irregular, sometimes a month or more in between but then this week I have had 10. They happen in all different situations, sitting at my desk, during exercise, standing still, even when laying down.

My doctors continue to focus on cardiac issues but I'm not sure. I passed a treadmill stress test with no issues, two tilt table tests have both been positive, and I wore two different heart monitors for a period of time but didn't have any episodes while they were on. The cardiologist recently put me on Northera which is designed to raise my blood pressure. It has done that, I'm now around 130 or 140 over 90 instead of between 100 and 120 over 80 or lower, but I'm still having episodes. I can ramp up the Northera dosage but worry about other effects from pushing my blood pressure too high.

If my situation sounds similar to anyone out there, I'm open to suggestions. I have noted some of the other diagnoses on here and plan to talk to my doctor again at my physical in two weeks. Thanks for your help!

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Guest over a year ago

I believe we have temporal lobe epilepsy, mild but debilitating. I had never passed out in my 56 years, but did so twice in the last 3 months.

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Guest over a year ago

This is crazy to see so many people describing exactly what I've been trying to explain to people for about 6 years. I'm a 17 year old female, and mine started when I was 11. What you're describing is exactly what I tried telling numerous doctors. I was referred over and over again, had an ECG, EEG both normal and after being put on some beta blockers they sent me away. I was diagnosed with migraines. Just migraines. The doctors thought I was suffering with really bad headaches. They stopped for a few years, only happening once every few months and then in the last year they started again. I've been put on beta blockers again, had several blood tests and due for an MRI. They still think it's migraines but I requested one because I find them so scary and I'm not convinced on typical migraines. And especially as when I try to describe them everyone thinks I'm a bit mad. (The beta blockers don't work either)

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Guest over a year ago

PS. My name for these episodes are flashy backy things, I don't know why but that's what I call them!

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Guest over a year ago

When I went to the ER they diagnosed it as migraines which I
KNOW it was not. Most of the times I never had a headache associated with these episodes. They basically told me they just has to put down a diagnosis and didn't know what else to put Grrr.....

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Guest over a year ago

BrownCow here. My neuro said he can disgnose these as seizures or migraines. He knows they aren't migraines so Im being treated as if they are seizures

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Guest over a year ago

I know exactly what you mean I'm only 32 years old and I'm post surgically induced menopause and I have had the exact same feeling! it's hard for me to explain but it's deja vu with lightheadedness and Adrenaline Rush with a sense of fear and nobody can explain to me what's going on. Any luck in your end?

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Guest over a year ago

I've had these episodes for years: very vivid recollection of (what I believe are) dreams. The episodes last only a matter of seconds, but they are very disturbing to me. I've been tested for epilepsy and other neurological disorders and the tests came up negative. I think that they occur, not when I'm stressed necessarily, but rather when I'm overly fatigued, haven't slept well. They seem to just come "out of the blue." I can't explain them except that maybe they're something like panic attacks (which I personally have never experienced), because I try to calm myself, breathe deeply, relax, realize that these episodes aren't harmful ("this isn't going to kill me" is the mantra I employ), and soon the disturbed feeling passes. I've explained it to me family doctor and he, like many general medicine doctors, shrugs his shoulders and says, "hmmm." So, que sera, sera, I guess.

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Guest over a year ago

Someday someone will figure this out. I can’t imagine what others are experiencing who don’t think to google this. It’s obviously a prevalent condition amongst a lot of people !

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