Posted by Mitch on August 11, 2001, at 0:07:00
In reply to ATTN! MITCH!!! PLEASE READ THIS!!!, posted by Twisterella on August 10, 2001, at 12:45:37
> hi- i read some of your posts from june about your deja vu feelsing and i beleive you may have alos posted about dream flashbacks??
> well i know what you are going through- your symptoms sound like mine
> - it started back in november- this is what happens to me:
> 1. my head feels funny and i get flashes of familar "memories" in my minds eye-
> except i cant quite place what they are , they just feel familiar,
> like maybe fragments of an old dream, i get freaked out and while all of this happens
> (in the course of about 20 seconds) my heart races, my stomach hurts, kind of like nausea, but more like a pain,
> and i sweat alot, after my head throbbs so bad for like 20 min., well i went to my shrink, then a neuro,
> i got blood work done, mri, 3 eegs (2 were 24 hour) and a cat scan- my neuro said i looked fine, well after that these "spells"
> (thats what I always have called them) went away, and if they came back, i could stop them myself from coming, but recently i have been getting them really bad in my sleep,Jenny,
What you need to do (and what I *should* do at some point) is get a sleep study (polysomnogram) with an EEG analyzed by a neuro. I know you mentioned several EEG's that were evidently negative. My Mom had nocturnal (nighttime) generalized (grand mal) seizures that she had no recollection of. You are evidently conscious during these episodes. So you possibly could be having partial seizures. Another possibility is you are experincing phenomena related to *auras* that often precede migraine headaches. I wouldn't consider any of my symptoms "dream flashbacks", more like derealization feelings. What did your pdoc think of all of this?
Mitch
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