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Jul 3, 2012, 05:03 PM
I was sent for tests due to having fits. The conclusion was that it could be 'temporal/frontal lobe epilepsy but it is not common in kids' and was dismissed. I was fourteen at the time. I am now almost eighteen and they have only gotten worse.
The way I know they are going to happen is that a few days, sometimes weeks before I get slurred speech/lisping, mixing up of words (speaking only for everything to come out in the wrong order) and memory problems.
When the fits themselves start they are jerking movements of my entire body, and sometimes I will be unable to do certain things like lift my head or move my arms/legs. Sometimes I blink repeatedly. I am still awake to an extent during these episodes because I can still hear, but cannot respond. When it is over I do get a feeling like waking up, sort of like snapping out of a daydream. I also tend to get random feelings of de ja vu quite a lot, and a similar feeling I can't describe. Could this still be epilepsy?
I have also had episodes during the night where I have woken up for some reason to find I can't move at all. There's nothing I can do and usually I suppose I must fall back to sleep, although once the episode ended whilst I was still awake and I saw a flash in front of my closed eyes and heard a strange sound a bit like static electricity.
Another episode I tend to have is suddenly becoming very tired, and then the next thing I know finding I've fallen asleep and am unable to remember anything I did before sleeping. I rarely even remember lying down.
I also suffer from infrequent bedwetting which is obviously frustrating, and nothing I am aware of seems to bring it on or stop it, except the fact it seems to come around the same time as all these symptoms.
The way I know they are going to happen is that a few days, sometimes weeks before I get slurred speech/lisping, mixing up of words (speaking only for everything to come out in the wrong order) and memory problems.
When the fits themselves start they are jerking movements of my entire body, and sometimes I will be unable to do certain things like lift my head or move my arms/legs. Sometimes I blink repeatedly. I am still awake to an extent during these episodes because I can still hear, but cannot respond. When it is over I do get a feeling like waking up, sort of like snapping out of a daydream. I also tend to get random feelings of de ja vu quite a lot, and a similar feeling I can't describe. Could this still be epilepsy?
I have also had episodes during the night where I have woken up for some reason to find I can't move at all. There's nothing I can do and usually I suppose I must fall back to sleep, although once the episode ended whilst I was still awake and I saw a flash in front of my closed eyes and heard a strange sound a bit like static electricity.
Another episode I tend to have is suddenly becoming very tired, and then the next thing I know finding I've fallen asleep and am unable to remember anything I did before sleeping. I rarely even remember lying down.
I also suffer from infrequent bedwetting which is obviously frustrating, and nothing I am aware of seems to bring it on or stop it, except the fact it seems to come around the same time as all these symptoms.