Hi Bunz,

Welcome to the forum! Years ago when I was a kid 10 yrs. old (49 now) I started having terrible migraine headaches and this lead to seizures for me. When you are seeing these colors in your eyes this is telling me it's the optical lobe of your brain where your eye sight is that's starting up the seizure. This could also be known as a simple partial (aura) seizure leading into either a complex partial or tonic clonic (grand mal) seizure.

Hot water used to trigger seizures for me until I had brain surgery to help reduce my seizures. My advice to you is to use cooler water when showering, and make an appt. with an Epileptologist at an Epilepsy Center which are at University Hospitals. An Epileptolgist specializes in epilepsy and will do detailed tests on you to find out if you are having seizures. Ask your friends to watch you and take note if you are wandering around during the seizure, smacking your lips, or pulling at your clothing if this is happening you may be having a complex partial seizure. I have this type of seizure and I will wander around not realizing what I'm doing until the seizure is over with and then I find myself in a different room but I don't remember anything.

My short term memory is terrrible but my long term memory is good just like you. My Dr. found out that the hippocampus of my brain had shrunk and gotten hard from yrs. of seizures and this is what caused the short term memory loss for me. Also to much use on cell phones can shrink the hippocampus as well as trigger seizures for people who are cell phone sensitive which means cell phones can trigger seizures even if another person is 100 ft. away from you texting. This is all do to the frequency the cell phone is in. I have this problem so I stick to using ham radio instead it's a lot cheaper and safer for me.

You should cut back on caffeine, starch foods and carbs. and stay away from anything with nutrasweet in it because that causes more electrical activity in the brain which can cause seizures. Start taking Vitamin B12 or B complex vitamins once a day until you get on the right seizure meds if needed. I wish you the best of luck and May God Bless You!

Sue