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Feeling strong dizziness all of a sudden

Epilepsy & Seizures | Last Active: Apr 19, 2023 | Replies (27)

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@santosha

Hi @salpal01
Interesting what you have shared. Does everything spin around you when you get an aura? If I understand well you have focal seizures as well? Do they come from the temporal lobe? Perhaps you have already shared that with us, but I can not remember now. Sorry, my memory!
My aura experiences are quite different from the dizziness I have been feeling lately. This dizziness happens when I am in movement, especially when my head moves. My doctor did some maneuvers with the head and body yesterday, identifying some nystagmus (rapid, involuntary eye movements) during those procedures, which led to this BPPV diagnosis.
I can have auras while I am seated quietly in front of my computer reading something. When I was younger, there was a specific smell in my nose and a specific taste in my mouth, symptoms that I do not have anymore. But what tells me that a seizure is starting is the feeling of deja vu. I can have auras while in movement, like walking. But I do not get the sensation of dizziness or that I will faint.
Does anybody else have similar experiences to @salpal01? Please do share.
Santosha

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Hi
when my seizures first started I used to get feelings of deja vu all the time. when I had auras years ago my head would feel like it was 'full of cotton wool'then I felt like I would faint.
I do have temporal lobe seizures and I always woke up with a migraine or tension headache after having a seizure but lately that doesn't seem to be happening. My seizures use to be quite violent in the 90's but since being put on Keppra life is so much better. I'm not sure if I'm having that many seizures these days so my doctor wants me to get a seizure watch.
My memory is not too good either so I have been keeping diaries for the last 10 years