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Mental Health Support

whathehell

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2. I had two grand mal seizures as a child, at 12 and 13..

Reply to angstlessk (Original post)

Fri Apr 11, 2014, 09:00 PM

Apr 2014

This was over 50 years ago...You might be interested in knowing that although I was run

through a battery of tests, they never found any physical cause, and, in their words,

"assumed it was psychological". They put me on Dilantin and phenobarbital, nonetheless.

Is this what's happening with you?

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About 10 years ago I had two seizures... [View all] angstlessk Apr 2014 OP

I went to the hospital the next week and said I might be having angstlessk Apr 2014 #1

I had two grand mal seizures as a child, at 12 and 13.. whathehell Apr 2014 #2

I am not sure if they were grand mal seizures... angstlessk Apr 2014 #3

I'm glad for you that they did not repeat.. whathehell Apr 2014 #4

No headache here either, but it is called aural 'migraine'..maybe we both have/had the same thing? angstlessk Apr 2014 #5

My auras were strange, at least to me...The first felt like a sudden "flashback" of sorts whathehell Apr 2014 #6

Mine were 100% visual angstlessk Apr 2014 #7

Interesting.. whathehell Apr 2014 #8

did you see my thread about my daughter? mopinko Apr 2014 #9

Used to have anxiety, till one day I had an anxiety attack in front of my room mate angstlessk Apr 2014 #10

see a neurologist now. mopinko Apr 2014 #11