Posted by Shamim on September 4, 2003, at 21:59:45
In reply to Re: visual hallucinations, posted by Shamim on September 4, 2003, at 21:29:30
sorry about the number of follow-ups by me to this post, but summarising the symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy i sent my friend the following list. any major misunderstandings that you can see?
1. Do you get a little warning before the spell telling you you are going to have it? E.g. anxious or nervous feelings, epigastric sensations (a butterfly sensation from your stomach or an unpleasant sensation that moves up into your throat), fear, and the indescribable feeling of a seizure coming on (the sensation of "it"). Other auras (warnings) may involve "special senses" include seeing, hearing, or tasting things that most people wouldn't see, hear, or taste. A sense of the room closing in or spreading out, a foreign noise, or a sharp, metallic taste. Other examples are feelings of derealization (feeling as if things aren't real) or depersonalization (out-of-body experiences), or maybe sudden changes in mood.
2. During the spell do you start by stopping, then staring and doing automatic things like chewing, lip smacking, mumbling and fumbling with or jerking the hands, then you feel confused?
To put it another way, as you may not be conscious of some of this, do you blank out momentarily and then come back again after the fit has passed? Maybe the blanks are so short you just seem to lose the ability to concentrate on things because loads of stuff is wiped out with every shock?
3. Do you sometimes lose consciousness, sometimes not remember what happened in the spell, fail to be able to react to the environment?
4. Do you feel confused briefly after the spell? Do you feel a general weakness, muscle weakness, and fatigue afterwards, maybe for up to a few days afterwards?
5. Does the spell last about 60-90 seconds, followed by brief confusion?
6. Are the spells repetitive and recurrent?
7. Do you have other hallucinations, as of odors, visceral sensations?
8. Do you exhibit impaired recall of verbal materials? Maybe impaired visual-spatial recall?
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