Why do I keep getting these random "seizure moments"?!
Question: Why do I keep getting these random "seizure moments"?
This is a really weird phenomenon that has been happening with me and before a year ago, I've never had a seizure in my life. I will do my best to explain.
I find that it usually happens when I stretch. It doesn't happen too often but when I put my hands up to the sky, lean back and yawn sometimes I get the "got up too fast" feeling. This is almost always followed by strong disorientation and sometimes even involuntary body twitches in my arms and legs. In the most extreme cases, I've actually fallen to the ground and had a full blown seizure. None of my seizures have lasted any longer than 10 seconds but when they finish, it feels like all the sensations in my body have been "reset". Like I will be completely numb for 2-3 seconds and then all of a sudden all the feeling from my toes to my neck is back. It's the weirdest most unexplainable feeling ever.
I'd say it's happened to me about 20 times in the last six months and strangely, I was alone every time and nobody was there to witness. The strange body feeling usually subsides within a minute and after that I usually just shrug it off. I used to think it was because of sleep deprivation but after getting adequate amount of sleep each night, I find that to no longer be the case. I've also lowered my caffeine intake and it seems to have lowered the frequency of my micro seizures but I still get them.
The only suspectable cause I can think of is the chronic pain which starts from my upper part of my left shoulder blade and continues on throughout to the top back side of my left neck muscles. It seems to happen especially after I stretch out my tense neck muscles.
Any experts in this field know if this or anything else could be the possible cause of my 10 second seizures?
I find that it usually happens when I stretch. It doesn't happen too often but when I put my hands up to the sky, lean back and yawn sometimes I get the "got up too fast" feeling. This is almost always followed by strong disorientation and sometimes even involuntary body twitches in my arms and legs. In the most extreme cases, I've actually fallen to the ground and had a full blown seizure. None of my seizures have lasted any longer than 10 seconds but when they finish, it feels like all the sensations in my body have been "reset". Like I will be completely numb for 2-3 seconds and then all of a sudden all the feeling from my toes to my neck is back. It's the weirdest most unexplainable feeling ever.
I'd say it's happened to me about 20 times in the last six months and strangely, I was alone every time and nobody was there to witness. The strange body feeling usually subsides within a minute and after that I usually just shrug it off. I used to think it was because of sleep deprivation but after getting adequate amount of sleep each night, I find that to no longer be the case. I've also lowered my caffeine intake and it seems to have lowered the frequency of my micro seizures but I still get them.
The only suspectable cause I can think of is the chronic pain which starts from my upper part of my left shoulder blade and continues on throughout to the top back side of my left neck muscles. It seems to happen especially after I stretch out my tense neck muscles.
Any experts in this field know if this or anything else could be the possible cause of my 10 second seizures?
Answers:
My best friend used to experience common problems. She went to a neurologist and it turns out that it was epilepsy. Next time you visit the doctor you should ask him about epilepsy or look it up yourself.
Or it could possibly be turrets syndrome although this seems a bit severe for turrets syndrome. But go ahead and look it up anyway.
Hope this helps:]