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Some type of sleep seizure?

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 01:53
Hello everyone I'm new to this site I'm a 14 year old girl and I was wondering if anybody has what I do or the same symptoms and I would like to know if any of you can help me out a little. Sorry if this is long. I'm laying down like any other night ready to go to sleep, then when I get in that state where I'm what I call "dozing off" into my sleep state, I get this almost sudden intense tingling feeling in my head (head only). I can shake this feeling off right before I fall into one of these episodes but it's hard to because when it happens my body wants to stiffen up. (Yes I am conscious and fully aware of what is happening) or you can say feel like I'm stuck in the middle of conscious and I'm about to become un-consciousness or faint. Anyhow, most of the time I do not shake it off because of my body not wanting to move. When it happens I feel that same tingling but even more intense to where it hurts. I can not move nor can I make any noise during these. But I do notice my head always tries to kind of "shake it off" because all the pain is in my head and I can stop my head from moving during this but if I do the tingling instantly stops and it is like my heart is in my ears and causes a terrible head ache. My head pounds. (Before I say anything else these episodes only last up to 10 seconds at the longest 15.) After it stops, it's a sudden feeling of relief except then is when I get very dizzy. I felt like I have been going in circles with my eyes crossed for a minute. It's intense to where I can almost not see. I know exactly how it felt and what has happened afterwards, with no memory loss at all. But I do feel instantly more drowsy than I hsve before it happened. Therefore, I can accidentally fall into one of these almost exactly 5 seconds after it has just happened. The second one is no worse than the first. The most I have had I believe is 4 continuously. I was about 11 years old. But it's almost like I was relaxed by it and I sort of liked it. BUT they were more frequent then and they were almost painless so I can understand why I did not wonder what is was then as much as I do now, though they have slowed down quite a bit. The last one I have had was exactly a week ago.(I almost had 2 but shook myself out of the second one and before that one I had one about 3 months ago). I am going to a neurologist soon but I would like to know others opinions on this too. :) (P.S. I do not know if I have any movement during this because when a friend was over the same thing happened to me right beside him and he did not knowing any difference than me laying there.)

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What you are posting could be

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2014-04-28 - 11:47
What you are posting could be seizures. I had them several times before I was diagnosed with epilepsy. There are many different kinds of seizures where we do not lose conciousness. I have focal motor seizures. They affect my right hand. In those my right hand tingles or gets numb. I can't move it but it did move by itself and it would rise up. I knew what was happening I saw heard and everything you posted so yes you can have a seizure without losing conciousness. I also would be writen up for day creaming in class. I was in the seizure had heard the question but I answered it when the seizure was over which could have been a few seconds or 30 - 45 seconds Tell the neurologist about these and any others you might remember.  The tests he will do if any will be an EEG and a MRI. The EEG is a brain wave tests showing where the electrical impulses are comming from. The MRI is basically a picture of the entire brain which could be looked at and they will see anything wrong with it's groth. They will see anything that could have caused a disorder such as a blow to the head which might have knocked you out. Those blows could cause a hemmorage to the brain and that hemmorage can cause scared brain tissue. I know that is what caused my epilepsy. The sooner you see the neurologist the better. I say that because I had gone a few years before I had a grand mal seizure. I hope this helps and you get the assistance you need Joe

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