Posted by Zo on July 4, 2001, at 2:19:08
In reply to back to me (he he), posted by geekUK on July 3, 2001, at 14:27:08
> yeah i was on about getting brief, 2-3min max periods of derealisation when things feel like I am sunk back 100 miles into my skull and everything is distant (no visual sympt.)
Exactly. These states are so hard to describe. I posted somewhere abt. having a photosensitive-provoked one while driving (scary, but it passed) where my hands on the steering wheel were a thousand miles away.. .
> As A kid mainly I got strong attacks of tactile halucinations of a contradictory nature, the feeling that something was big and little and thin and fat, coupled with tingleing in arm and legs and tongue, occasional auditory halluc. as if speech was being played back really fast without be comprehendable.
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> consiousness is never lost.
> any ideas guys and gals
> MCThe ol' classic "Big and Small" of temporal lobe seizures. . and perhaps other kinds too, I don't know. I, too, had them when I was little, especially with fevers or when falling asleep, tho never the auditory part or tingling. Neurontin especially helps with TLE, which is great because most other anti-epileptics s**k.
(Say, just how strict is this Dr. Bob guy anyway.)Zo
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