Or talk to several different doctors to collect diff opinions...

Hi,
i've no medical background, so I can't say for sure that they are linked. However, I have had seizures, as well as what I now know were anxiety/panic attacks. All of a sudden I would feel sort of out of it, in a panic, my heart would race and would feel frazzled. Like you, the panic I felt and other symptoms, felt similar to that of an aura before a seizure. And as you suggested, knowing that only made the anxiety worse.
I've read that migraines and epilepsy are linked, so it wouldn't come as a surprise if anxiety and epilepsy were linked. I know for me, several years ago I suffered from post partum depression and that brought on a seizure. Anxiety (and depression) are stress causing which for me is always something that contributes to a seizure developing.
As was sugggested by someone else, talk to your doctor. From what you describe it sounds a lot like what I have gone through and i'm certain that both my seizures and anxiety provoke the other.
Kathy

Hi, I have seizures and I have had panic attacks that were soooo scary, I felt like I was going to die and now I haven't had one in a while...I believe it was one of the side effects from my seizure med and at that time I was on topamax, which was a nightmare drug for me...Your neurologist doesn't always know the answer and sometimes you have to do your own homework, because for me they stopped when I went off the topamax and when I was getting them was when I was on that drug........I hope this helps, susan

Fear or anxiety is very common in simple-partial seizures so don't rule out the possibility that your "anxiety attacks" are really a form of seizure activity. Sometimes simple-partials precede complex-partial and/or secondarly generalized (tonic-clonic) seizures. If you commonly have an aura (which is really a simple-partial seizure) before having a complex-partial or tonic-clonic/grand mal seizure, it makes sense that these "anxiety attacks" would feel like you are about to have a "grand mal."

~aiwl

Anxiety seems very common among people with e. I often have anxiety attacks and they feel like the beginning of my auras. That makes it worse because I just sit there and wait for the lights to start. I have been working on relaxation techniques wich help a little, I really don't want to go on more meds if I don't have to. I wonder if they are linked as well. When I was 13 I went off of meds and was seizure free till I was 18. I had a couple fits and went back on. I am hoping it is the meds and having kids that makes me anxious and not my e getting worse or something. I haven't seen a neuro since I was very young, but I am going to demand getting some work done again next week. Regular docs don't ever answer my questions and never check anything out wich could also bring on anxiety at least for me imho.

i too started having seizures last year? this is my third one today. the same time that year i started noticing i was having anxiety and panic attacks every morning? and this morning i felt the siezure come on. i had a panic feeling and felt my face and head twitching? and when i woke up finally my byofriend told me i had another one? so i'm trying also to figure out if the anxiety is causing me to have the siezures? i haven't even had children yet and hope this won't stop me? i don't want to be on medication forever?