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about a year and some change ago, I began experience weird symptoms. At first I thought it was depression and anxiety, then after meeting with a psych doc for 6 months and not getting relief and describing my symptoms to her she said its time to go see a neuro. My symptoms are I get an overwhelming sensation in my throat that is sometimes accompanied by a painful emotion felt in the temples. The weird sensation in my throat feels like an emotional feeling like im welling up to cry but i dont and cant. My hands also start to shake and just have a general feeling of something isnt right. My eyes also clench like when something stings from pain. my eyes always do this the same time that overwhelming sensation in my throat happens. I have been working with an amazing group of neuros and they are convinced they are auras or simple partial seizures. So they put me on lamictal and have worked my way up to 400mg and they seemed to have calmed down but i still get them and some days are better than others. There are no specific triggers that I know of, they just seem to happen at any given time. Does anyone experience this and does this sound like a simple partial seizure? PLEASE HELP fellow neurotalk peeps!!!
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I don't have an answer for you. I am having some unusual neuro things going on too. I just wanted you to know that I get it and that I am sending you cyber hugs of support.
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Hi,

It appears you feel good about your neuro team.

Have you talked to the neurologists about the continued episodes?
If Lamictal has helped, it's possible an adjustment in dose may also help, or your neurologist might want to try a different medication?

You have described experiences similar to experiences I have heard others experience/describe, they are also diagnosed with simple partial seizure activity.

This territory is always a bit difficult to clearly diagnose. People have some difficulty in clearly describing their experiences and each person has some different, though possibly similar, types of experiences. It can be difficult or impossible to clearly catch this activity on EEGs, etc. (You know all of this.)

You are asking: "PLEASE HELP."

Are you in distress with these experiences, even though they are less intense with the Lamictal?

Do you feel you are misdiagnosed?

Would a second opinion from a neurologist feel helpful to you?

I hope you find the answers you are looking for and achieve relief asap.

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Hi pk,

I've had simple partial sz. for many yrs. and what you are describing sounds like this is what may be happening. I start to see colors in my eyes and get a nervous feeling in my stomach and once in awhile I will smell weird odors like natural gas and deviled eggs. I learned that the minute I start to have a simple partial sz. to tighten up all the muscle in my body and make my hands into tight fists if you do this fast enough it will stop the sz.

You should have your family Dr. refer you to see a Epilepleptologist who is a Dr. that specializes in epilepsy. They know how to treat epilepsy with the least amount of meds, pinpoint the cause of the sz. and help a person become sz. free in many cases.

In the meantime cut back on carbs, starch foods, and nutra sweet these can often trigger sz. for many people. Try taking vitamin B12 1000 mcg. once a day I have found the vitamin B12 helps reduce my sz. and calms the nerves.
I wish you the best of luck and May God Bless You!

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Hi Pk,

Have you had an EEG done? There are different kinds but one needs to start somewhere.

For Kanna,

Should you get a diagnosis of epilepsy, www.epilepsynw.org lists support groups. Think the Seattle adults meet at Harborview once a month or so.
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I don't have an answer for you. I am having some unusual neuro things going on too. I just wanted you to know that I get it and that I am sending you cyber hugs of support.
Thanks Kanna I appreciate the hugs;-)))
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Hi Pk,

Have you had an EEG done? There are different kinds but one needs to start somewhere.

For Kanna,

Should you get a diagnosis of epilepsy, www.epilepsynw.org lists support groups. Think the Seattle adults meet at Harborview once a month or so.
Yes I was in the hospital 2 months ago and had a video monitoring EEG and they couldn't find anything and my doc said it not uncommon for them to find any abnormal activity w simple partials
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Hi pk,

I've had simple partial sz. for many yrs. and what you are describing sounds like this is what may be happening. I start to see colors in my eyes and get a nervous feeling in my stomach and once in awhile I will smell weird odors like natural gas and deviled eggs. I learned that the minute I start to have a simple partial sz. to tighten up all the muscle in my body and make my hands into tight fists if you do this fast enough it will stop the sz.

You should have your family Dr. refer you to see a Epilepleptologist who is a Dr. that specializes in epilepsy. They know how to treat epilepsy with the least amount of meds, pinpoint the cause of the sz. and help a person become sz. free in many cases.

In the meantime cut back on carbs, starch foods, and nutra sweet these can often trigger sz. for many people. Try taking vitamin B12 1000 mcg. once a day I have found the vitamin B12 helps reduce my sz. and calms the nerves.
I wish you the best of luck and May God Bless You!

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Well they are an amazing team I have and they said they want to exhaust all options before sending me to a seizure specialist or the mayo or Cleveland clinic
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Hi,

It appears you feel good about your neuro team.

Have you talked to the neurologists about the continued episodes?
If Lamictal has helped, it's possible an adjustment in dose may also help, or your neurologist might want to try a different medication?

You have described experiences similar to experiences I have heard others experience/describe, they are also diagnosed with simple partial seizure activity.

This territory is always a bit difficult to clearly diagnose. People have some difficulty in clearly describing their experiences and each person has some different, though possibly similar, types of experiences. It can be difficult or impossible to clearly catch this activity on EEGs, etc. (You know all of this.)

You are asking: "PLEASE HELP."

Are you in distress with these experiences, even though they are less intense with the Lamictal?

Do you feel you are misdiagnosed?

Would a second opinion from a neurologist feel helpful to you?

I hope you find the answers you are looking for and achieve relief asap.

Warmly,
DejaVu
Yes the neurology team is awesome and the lamictal has helped and we just went up to 400mg and it seems every time we move up the symptoms come back very faintly then disappear so I'm hoping they do again:-/ I was reaching out for help Bc it seems no one experiences the same symptoms and it's very stressful going through this everyday and it's worse when you see improvement and then Bammm! Here it comes again:-/. Right now they are convinced it's simple partial seizures but not completely 100% confident. I don't get déjà Vu, no weird smells, etc...just a really weird emotional pain that starts in my throat and moves up to temples and I get this stinging sensation where my eyes cringe buttttt my eyes don't physically sting if that makes sense? And my hands tremble but then I can have a continuous type aura feeling in my throat that's faint and last hours:-/ no fun my friend no fun
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about a year and some change ago, I began experience weird symptoms. At first I thought it was depression and anxiety, then after meeting with a psych doc for 6 months and not getting relief and describing my symptoms to her she said its time to go see a neuro. My symptoms are I get an overwhelming sensation in my throat that is sometimes accompanied by a painful emotion felt in the temples. The weird sensation in my throat feels like an emotional feeling like im welling up to cry but i dont and cant. My hands also start to shake and just have a general feeling of something isnt right. My eyes also clench like when something stings from pain. my eyes always do this the same time that overwhelming sensation in my throat happens. I have been working with an amazing group of neuros and they are convinced they are auras or simple partial seizures. So they put me on lamictal and have worked my way up to 400mg and they seemed to have calmed down but i still get them and some days are better than others. There are no specific triggers that I know of, they just seem to happen at any given time. Does anyone experience this and does this sound like a simple partial seizure? PLEASE HELP fellow neurotalk peeps!!!

I have simple partials too! From what I understand they are different for each of us. I get an overwhelming feeling of fear and then a feeling that I might pass out but I don't. I just know something is wrong. I have a visual occlusion in my right eye and sometimes even start to loose vision for a few seconds. I get goosebumps and arms tingle and get numb from the elbow down. Then when it passes I get really cold and sleepy. An eeg caught it before I was medicated. I too was given Lamictal which seems to control them fairly well. A video monitored EEG study did not show anything either but like you said they are hard to catch. My neurologist says there are many people like me who only have simple partials but it's nice to finally meet someone! If you have any questions just let me know. Best of luck. I know they are scary.
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