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When i was about 5 i was at a neighbors house i accidently cut my hand wwhen i got home and seen the blood i had my first episode my parents say it was a grand mal seizure i was flashing in and out of consciousness and for lack of a better word i was thrashing about.When i was a kid whenever i seen my own blood from knicks scratches etc this would happen.it probably happened 4 or 5 times.I stopped having these problems for 15 yrs or so.At my brothers house helping with a roof i fell about 15 feet or so to the ground my head hit but the way i fell it didnt hit real hard.It wasnt long after that maybe a year or so after that my episodes came back.I wake up out of a sound sleep I dont know how to explain it but i have this feeling i kinda get a smell and i can tell its gonna happen.i kinda flash in and out of consciousness while im thrashing and sometimes i lose bladder control and i wet myself.my wife ,mother and two different co-workers have seen this happen and all tell me its a seizure.I went to a neurologist they do an MRI and a EEG looks at his results and tells me its not seizures.This is destroying my life now because of these episodes i have anxiety wondering when the next one will happen because these things scare the crap out of me and the anxiety seems to make the episodes worse it seems as though the anxiety and episodes feed of each other.I am constantly nauseus from anxiety over this whole deal what is going on with me does anyone have a similar story or advice.I am an extremely nervousperson i always think the worse and i know its all gotta be tangled in i am currently on 100mg of zoloft for the anxiety but it doesnt really help much i just wanna be normal again. Thank You.
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Yes bree i am having a stressfull time right now my second child was born about 3 months ago and about a month before she was born i was laid off.Before i was laid off we were going to get a newer vehicle because our current vehicle is kinda old then i got laid off now we are barely getting by my old vehicle is nickel and diming me things are pretty stressful.
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I would say you are having Psychogenic Seizures, they are psychological in nature but resemble epilepsy almost exactly. Are you having to deal with a lot of stressful situations in your life right now?
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