Posted by avid abulia on July 14, 2003, at 22:21:34
In reply to Re: epilepsy questions » avid abulia, posted by bookgurl99 on July 13, 2003, at 23:19:06
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> Um . . can I run my last' migraine' past you; since you have both, maybe you can tell me whether to think of it as a 'seizure' or a migraine or both?
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> Ok -- for two days previous, I was very hyper. My attention span was somewhat low, but my friends said I seemed like my 'old' (before last year's weirdness) self. I felt pretty good, normal brain speed, everything.
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> Then, I started feeling dizzy out of the blue. Came home, sat down at the computer, and had a sudden balance change -- felt almost as though I 'were' moving, or were going to fall, -- jerked in the chair I was sitting in, clinging to the side to make sure I wouldn't fall. My friend visiting looked at me strangely, but I felt ok and brushed it off.
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> Next day, got up early, felt ok, went to work. During work became nauseated, had trouble concentrating, tense neck but no real pain, colors looking really bright and blurry left eye vision. Left work early. Rested rest of day.
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> Whole week after, felt sleepy. Wanted to sleep all the time, but couldn't due to work. Have had little initiative out of work; want to rest. Friends have complained about my low attention span. Have felt a little slow, unusually dumb. Now, two weeks later, my brain still feels slow. I don't recall where I just set something down, etc. things I would normally recall. I had some symptoms like this last year, and after some time they resolved. I hope these do too.
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> I'm still having many visual weirdnesses -- optical migraines -- and times where I feel slightly better or worse. Today the keyboard I type on at work was 'pulsating' in my vision.
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> So whad'ya think? Could someone really have a cognition-impairing 'seizure' without losing consciousness? Or am I just having the mother of all migraine disorders?
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> p.s. i know you're not a dr. _and_ i'm gonna go to my dr. on tue and play dumb; i'm gonna say i keep having these funny migraines.
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I dunno... to me, it all sounds like migraine stuff. That doesn't seem much like anything *i've* experienced with epilepsy, but epilepsy, like migraine, is a complex phenomenon and everyone is different. i don't think it is usual to have that stuff that starts to happen a few days in advance with epilepsy, but it is pretty normal for migraine.
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