For some reason every once in a while I am
usually just sitting somewhere and out of
nowhere I get a very intense feeling of
deja-vu, but its a little different. It's
like deja-vu, except intense, and I feel
this almost like ripping kind of drain on
my body and I start to worry like ive done
that before and when I did it turned out
horribly...Which is what really bothers me
is because it can get so bad that I have
to get up and go walking around and
totally leave sometimes the house to go
outside before I can calm down. Is this
something to worry about or am I just
being a wuss here, I ask because ive had
deja vu before but its never literally
worried me, or had a physical affect, or
bothered me so much that I have to leave
and change scenery, or lasted for that
long because when this happens its usually
a good minute or two, even though it seems
like longer so im not real sure how long
it actually is.
Anything would really be appreciated,
thanks
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Sweetserede
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Location: FL
Posted: 09-29-03 17:44pm
I'm had a similiar feeling myself.
Especially when I take medication like
claritin. I'll walk by the medication
and think....Did I take this already
today? Then I take it and have a panic
attack, thinking i'm gonna od because I
could of swore I already took one earilier
in the day. It makes me pace and shake
while my heart races a bit. Takes me a
bit to calm myself down. I think i'm
just over reacting. Maybe it is normal.
I mean I don't see anything wrong with
changing scenery if yer stressed out about
something to calm yerself down. But if
it does happen too often then I would ask
a doctor and see what he/she says.
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anil84
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Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 1 Location: mumbai--india
Deja Vu Feeling---real Cause Posted: 10-20-04 07:40am
Divine soul.
If you ever had a feeling of deja-vu (a
fleeting experience that you have been in
similar surroundings before)--but did not
know the reason why this feeling
occured--then please visit the site http://www.Creator-creation.Com
/ and find out the answer ---and I bet
you will be surprised. ( truth is
stranger than fiction.)
this fleeting experience is known as
deja-vu syndrome in medicine--but the
medical scientists do not have a
convincing explanation for it. This
feeling (extra sensory perception) is
felt, not by the brain (matter)--but by
the self (spirit-consciousness)--an
eternal entity-- who plays its identical
role in this repetitive eternal world
drama every 5000 years--as do all other
souls (actors) of this world.
This amazing fact has been revealed to us
by the supreme soul himself.
-- for more information -- visit : http://www.Creator-creation.Com
/ and click on the link
'swastika'---the eternal world cycle.
I Thought I Was Alone!!!! Posted: 12-14-04 17:01pm
Ever since I was in elementary school I
have had extreme deja vu. However,
because the symptoms I was having (rapid
heart rate, heavy chest pains, turning
stomach, headaches, severe sweating,
passing out) they thought it was anxiety.
Which, I do have anxiety... But this is
not it...Its no where near this intense,
especially in a short period of time (30
sec). Eventually I stopped having them...
Until a few months ago (now 21 yrs old).
I will have these almost skit-like dreams
where 3 or 4 different 30-second scenerios
play out in my head that make no sense at
all when I wake up. Then a few weeks go
by and out of nowhere, and in a random
place, my chest starts to hurt really bad,
then I get sweaty and I know its coming
but I cant stop it. Then comes the
intense part where I turn pale and my
heart starts racing, I get dizzy, then I
have to sit down. I dont know that this
was my dream until the end because I
remember dreaming it and not understanding
it because its usually somewhere ive never
been. And I know exactly what people are
going to say or do. It has bothered me
since I was in 4th grade and no one
beleived how much it drains my body to
experience this. The doctors laughed at
me. I dont know how to help you, but I do
know that I have these episodes too and
allthough it sucks, im glad im not alone.
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ConsiderThis
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 11 Location: New Mexico
Posted: 12-17-04 08:06am
Hi,
i have that feeling when I overdraw my
bank account... But didn't know it was
going to happen. Like there will have
been a one time charge that I didn't allow
for... Or a check from 8 months ago will
finally come through, right after I
correct what I thought was my error (the
additional money).
The feeling tends to be spot on in terms
of my bank account.
So maybe the feeling in relation to your
meds or other things is spot on, too, only
you don't know the relationship yet...
One thing I know for sure is that some
meds that I have been on, like for
depression, have caused memory loss and
have lowered my b12 level...
I actually have cognitive dysfunction from
my b12 level being too low, too long.
Soooo, i'd be curious if you have lines on
your fingernails????
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 11 Location: New Mexico
Posted: 12-18-04 13:07pm
Hi,
i'm ba-aack.
Please would you take a look at your
fingernails, and describe them to me? Do
they have lines on them???? How clearly
can you see your moons??
Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posted: 12-28-04 09:56am
Hello everyone, i'm new to this place, but
this topic caught my eye through google
because i'm suffering from the following:
around about october I was in ireland on a
mini holiday with my girlfriend. Things
were fine until my birthday. On the night
of my birthday, which was sunday, I woke
up to find that I had an intense feeling
of deja vu wherever I looked at anything
or did anything. This feeling lasted for
at least 30 minutes, reducing me to a
panic attack, extreme shivering and unable
to calm myself. It lasted 30 minutes
because I finally made myself go back to
sleep again. Whether this happened due to
the fact I was away from my family on my
18th birthday therefore felt homesick and
stressed (because I hate flying and I had
to fly home on tuesday) I don't know, but
I woke upin the morning and I was fine
again.
Until 2-3 weeks ago, when this feeling
happened again. This time on tuesday at
college. I was typing something into a
message board and I all of a sudden got
this feeling of deja vu. Usually when
this happens though I shrug it off and
continue with what i'm doing, but not this
time. I panicked, therefore making the
feeling more intense, until I finally
calmed myself down after a while. However
it happened again and once again I
panicked. Two days before all this I was
having problems with my girlfriend as she
wasn't texting me etc, and I was getting
the feeling she was avoiding me and that
made me worried. I don't know if thats
related to what happened. (bare with my
poor grammar here :p)
whatever the case, I couldn't shake it
off. The following day I was alright
(wednesday) but thursday right up to
sunday I wasn't. I was having an
increased feeling of fight or flight panic
attacks, with mild feelings of deja vu.
On saturday my girlfriend dumped me, which
made me even more depressed, until on
sunday I was so depressed that I felt deja
vu feelings alot when I was sitting at the
table eating tea talking to mum and my
sister. I calmed down gradually, but once
again it acted up because I talked to my
dad about what I was feeling. Then on the
night I was unable to get too sleep
because I was worrying about it and felt
deja vu feelings again. Then in the
middle of monday night I wasn't even able
to go back to sleep because I worried
about it and needed to talk to dad to calm
myself down. By this time I was wreck, I
felt I was going mad or that something
deadly was destroying my brain.
Finally on tuesday I calmed down again,
attempting to calm myself and realise that
i'm not showing any other symptoms to
suggest brain tumor or whatever. This
helped and I was able to sleep and work
again, though sometimes it would happen, I
was able to calm myself.
Unfortunately though recently it has acted
up again a little. My dreams have been
weird, sometimes even feeling that some
dreams are deja vu (which is ridicolous).
However, more worrying is that I have now
somehow made my mind believe that deja vu
is being made when I have dreamless sleep,
or when I wake up in the middle of the
night and can't remember what i've dreamt.
I then take the times of which I fell
asleep and woke up and put them as the
times in the day that I will have deja vu
feelings again. This is causing me to
panic again and I don't know how to sort
it. I know i'm being stupid but i'm
worried sick and if I continue I could
make myself physically or mentally ill.
What should I do? I'm really worried
about this. I managed to sort myself out
without the need of doctors etc, but now
this has acted up and i'm seeing myself
having to go to a doctor...
I don't know what to do, and i'm really
worried about myself. Please help.
Pardon my impatience here - but I have to
ask if anyone here has any answers to the
problem yet.
Has anyone seen a doctor about this?
I myself have read about a connection
between epilepsy and deja vu and i'm
interested now because my girlfriend just
started having this problem again and she
hasn't had it since she was about 12.
Sounds to me like it could be some sort of
stress-triggered epilepsy, which means she
needs to see a doctor - none of us want to
carry around an unconfirmed medical
diagnosis like that.
So have any of you been brave enough to go
and have it checked out?
Last edited by alancz on 04-06-05 00:51am; edited 1 time in total
Fair enough - you yourself did answer the
question. And that's great if you were
able to reduce your anxiety and that
worked for you.
Doesn't account for everyone though, and I
was wondering if anyone had sought a
professional opinion.
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Bearo
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 2 Location: London, UK
Weird Posted: 04-06-05 06:07am
This is quite strange since starting to
suffer from anxiety i've noticed more deja
vu. I didn't really think anything of it
but I bet there's a relation somewhere,
the brains a funny thing.
One thing I sometimes do which you might
want to try is say something really weird
that you wouldn't normally - like monkey
cheese motorbike - something random, it
usually stops it for me :)
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ktoleary
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Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Irvine, CA
Deja-vu And Seizures Posted: 04-08-05 18:51pm
These episodes you are all describing are
most likely seizures. They are probably
what are called "partial seizures", which
are usually associated with temporal lobe
epilepsy. In general they are "simple"
partial seizures if you do not lose
consciousness, and "complex" if you do. I
had these incidences of deja-vu, along
with nausea and fear, for years before I
figured out what they were (about 4years
ago) and I only did because I was a
neuroscience graduate student at the time
and I read about it in a text book. I'm
not sure about the connection with
anxiety, but in many cases a lack of sleep
(or good sleep) makes it more likely that
you will have a seizure. Also, people
who have epilepsy are much more likely to
also suffer from depression than the
general population.
Bottom line--go see a neurologist!
I hope this helps all of you.
Good luck,
katie
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ernesto
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Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Miami
Re: Any Answers Yet? Posted: 04-12-05 11:40am
alancz
wrote:
pardon my impatience here -
but I have to ask if anyone here has any
answers to the problem yet.
Has anyone seen a doctor about this?
i have, he gave me soe xanax and it
worked, but then he wouldn't renew my
prescription. Anyway i'm better now
thanks to xanax and www.Healt305.8m.Com
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alicenwunderland
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Deja Vu Posted: 10-31-05 20:49pm
I know that most of the posts on this
subject are somewhat old, however I felt
moved to post this information that I have
found as I came to this website first
looking for information.
I want to say that I am a normal happy 29
year old female, that I have 'mild'
everyday 'tolerable' stress in my life and
that I have no anxiety or panic disorders.
That being said...However.... I sometimes
find myself experiencing intense feelings
of deja vu. (or deja senti see below)
it usually lasts for about 30 seconds and
sometimes leaves me feeling a little
nauseous. I have tried to explain these
feelings to my doctor, friends and my poor
husband.. Nobody seems to truly
understand & they dismiss it as
stress. Which is acceptable to me as
this does not adversely effect my life.
I was a little curious though and decided
to research it. I am glad to hear that
other people have similar experiences. I
guess it's all part of being human.
Three types of deja vu
by arthur funkhouser, ph.D., bern,
switzerland
(atf@alum.Mit.Edu)
the term 'deja vu' has been around
quite a while, now, and, in the last few
years has become practically a
buzz-word, being often found in
books, newspaper accounts and magazine
articles concerned with a wide variety
of topics (i have amassed quite a
collection, should anyone wish to see
them). The problem is, though, that while
many see fit to employ it in their
writing and conversation, just exactly
what is meant by the words 'deja vu' is
pretty vague. Many, based on their
own experience, believe it must refer to
what they encountered and/or felt,
while others, having never had such
experiences, have a very foggy notion of
what is meant, if at all. As such, it
has become a sort of catch-all label
for any number of hard-to-explain,
sometimes upsetting occurrences of
unexpected recognition, in which the
person involved has trouble identifying an
antecedent for the events and/or
places which seem so strangely and
intensely familiar.
In addition, the term 'deja vu' has
become encrusted, over the years, with a
number of unfortunate associations,
ranging from reincarnation to
temporal lobe epilepsy, which hinder
further research. These 'explanations'
along
with others such as delayed
intra-hemisphere transmission over the
corpus callosum as well as an astonishing
array
of psychoanalytical theories lead
people to believe that all that one needs
to know about such experiences is
already known and that there is
nothing of interest still to be done.
I believe the time has come,
therefore, for our terminology, especially
in educated discourse, to become more
differentiated (in fact, if I had my
way, we would get rid of 'deja vu'
altogether as over-worked and entitled to
a
well-deserved rest). To this end, I
would like to draw attention to three
forms of 'deja' experience, defining each
as we go along, and plea that these
be used when discussing the experiences
they refer to. Upon reflection,
readers may come up with other,
better terms for these experiences or
propose terms for other, related
experiences which are not the same as
the ones described in the following.
Since french scientists and thinkers
were the first to investigate these
phenomena, it seems fitting to retain
french names for these intriguing
experiences.
1. Deja vecu (already experienced or
lived through)
a fairly well-known quote from david
copperfield by charles dickens can be used
to introduce what is meant by
deja vecu,
we have all some experience of a
feeling, that comes over us occasionally,
of what we are saying and doing
having been said and done
before, in a remote time - of our having
been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the
same faces, objects, and
circumstances - of our knowing perfectly
what will be said next, as if we suddenly
remember it! (chapter 39)
this describes the feeling that many
people know as deja vu (if they know a
name for it). A number of surveys
have shown that about one third of
the general population have had such or
similar experiences. Moreover,
surveys have indicated that such
experiences tend to occur more frequently
and possibly more intensely when the
respondents were young, say between
ages 15 to 25. In addition, such
experiences are frequently, if not always,
connected with very banal events.
They are so striking, though, that they
are often clearly remembered for years
following their occurrence.
Anyone having had such experiences
knows that they normally involve more
sense modalities than just sight. As in
the dickens quotation, they can
easily involve hearing, tasting, touch
and/or proprioceptive perceptions as well.
This is why referring to such
experiences as simply deja vu is
inadequate.
Another feature of deja vecu that
most would agree with is the amazing
detail involved. When you are in the
midst
of such an occurrence, you are
conscious that everything conforms with
your 'memory' of it. This is why
explanations which suggest that the
person has read about or experienced
something similar in the past cannot be
valid. Moreover, this is why
explanations based on reincarnation and
past lives can also be ruled out. A
typical
deja vecu experience can easily
involve clothing or even a pc, but styles
of clothing change practically every year
and it is rather unlikely that
someone had a pc on his or her desk in a
previous life!
If incidences of deja vecu can be
taken as being real, our notions of
causality may have to be revised in some
ways. It does not seem to be
difficult, though, for modern physicists
to entertain notions of time loops,
tachyons
(particles that can travel backwards
in time) and multiple universes. That our
unconscious would then be able to
avail itself of such anomalies and
present us with precognitive knowledge via
visions and dreams, is then not so
farfetched as it might seem at first
glance.
2. Deja senti ('already felt')
I would like to turn now to a
phenomena that is often confused with deja
vecu. To introduce it, I would like to
quote from an 1889 paper by Dr. John
hughlings jackson, one of the foremost
pioneers of modern neurology. In
the words of one of his patients, a
medical doctor suffering from what has
come to be known as temporal lobe or
psychomotor epilepsy, he wrote:
what is occupying the attention
is what has occupied it before, and indeed
has been familiar, but has been
for a time forgotten, and now is
recovered with a slight sense of
satisfaction as if it had been sought for.
...
At the same time, or ... More
accurately in immediate sequence, I am
dimly aware that the recollection is
fictitious and my state
abnormal. The recollection is always
started by another person's voice, or by
my
own verbalized thought, or by
what I am reading and mentally verbalize;
and I think that during the
abnormal state I generally
verbalize some such phrase of simple
recognition as 'oh yes - I see', 'of
course -
I remember', &c., but a
minute or two later I can recollect
neither the words nor the verbalized
thought
which gave rise to the
recollection. I only find strongly that
they resemble what I have felt before
under
similar abnormal conditions.
This state, which sometimes appears
in the aura of temporal lobe epilepsy
attacks, jackson termed 'reminiscence'
and I believe could be best termed
deja senti. Three features are evident
from this description, however, that
distinguish it from deja vecu: a. It
is primarily or even exclusively a mental
happening; b. There are no precognitive
aspects in which the person feels he
or she knows in advance what will be said
or done; and c. It seldom or never
remains in the afflicted person's
memory afterwards.
A book has recently appeared which
has temporal lobe epilepsy as its main
focus. In it, the author mentions deja
vu as being a symptom of psychomotor
epilepsy, a contention that also persists
in most medical and psychiatric
textbooks and which would seem to be
based on this and other remarks by Dr.
Jackson. The book quotes a
neuropsychologist named paul spiers
who told students at a lecture that if
they had had deja vu experiences, they
were epileptics! This sort of
nonsense continues at least in part
because, up till now, our terms have been
so
poorly defined and this has hampered
making adequate surveys which distinguish
between the various deja
phenomena.
3. Deja visite ('already visited')
there is another phenomena which is
also often confused with deja vecu. It
seems to occur more rarely and is an
experience in which a person visits a
new locality and nevertheless feels it to
be familiar. He or she seems to know
their way around. C. G. Jung
published an interesting account of it in
his paper on synchronicity. To
distinguish it
from deja vecu, it is important to
ask whether it was purely the place and
location of inanimate buildings and/or
objects that were familiar, or did
the situation that the person was in also
play a role. Deja viste has to do with
geography, with the three spatial
dimensions of height, width and depth,
while deja vecu has to do more with
temporal occurrences and processes.
Deja visite can be explained in
several ways. It may be that the person
once read a detailed account of the place
and has subsequently forgotten it.
This happened to nathaniel hawthorne on a
visit he made to the ruins of a
castle in england. He 'recognized'
the place but didn't know how or why.
Only later was he able to trace it to a
piece written two hundred years
earlier by alexander pope about it. The
incident ofdeja visite described by sir
walter scott in his book, guy
mannering, is also based on this
hypothesis. Reincarnation might also
offer a way of
explaining some instances of deja
visite. A third possibility are so-called
'out-of-the-body' experiences in which a
person is apparently able to travel
abroad, leaving his or her body behind.
It is possible that mixed versions of
these three forms of 'deja' experience may
occur. There are also several other
phenomena which resemble these in
various ways, but space does not permit
going into them here. Those wishing
to know more and explore the various
aspects of deja phenomena more deeply are
referred to the excellent
overview in the book by neppe.
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pinksalter
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 124
Dp Posted: 11-02-05 21:21pm
Hi there,
just thought what your explaining sounds
like depersonalisation, if you look it up
on the web you can see if it matches your
symptoms. I get this all the time and it
is supposed to go away when your anxiety
disappears, I live in hope this will
happen soon!
Debs
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dmb24
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 1
Posted: 11-16-05 23:41pm
I had similar symptoms to those mentioned:
deja vu (lasting maybe 30 sec. And then
all of a sudden I couldn't remember it),
extreme feelings of fear washing over me,
turning pale, nausea, heart racing...My
doctor initially referred me to a
psychiatrist and I was diagnosed with
panic disorder. I went back for a second
opinion because I just knew that this
wasn't the problem. I was then referred
to a neurologist who, after many tests,
diagnosed me with simple partial seizures.
My suggestion is go see a doctor and be
persistent. You know your body best.
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Amanda30
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Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Posts: 2
Deja Vu Posted: 12-09-05 00:05am
I stumbled onto this forum while searching
for information on extreme deja vus. I
have experienced what a few people have
posted. On two separate occassions I
have had "all day" episodes of intense
feelings of deja vu. The other day I
woke up and I sort of felt like my whole
morning was a deja vu - but just the
normal type. Then, at work, I got into a
conversation with a woman about her house
being robbed a few weeks ago. When she
starting telling me what was taken I
immediately knew what she was going to
say. I became nauseaus, and a wave of
heat covered the core of my body and my
heart began pounding heavily. It only
lasted 15 seconds until I could feel
myself coming out of it, but while it was
happening it was like I could see snap
shots of a dream, and I knew what she was
going to say, but I could not "grasp" what
my "dream" was and I could not understand
what the pictures were, or I couldn't hold
on to them long enough in my mind to
process them. This continued happening
all day long - about 20 times. I began
writing down words that matched with what
I was seeing when it was happening, but
when I looked at the words I wrote down
afterwards they didn't seem to "fit" what
the images were even though I couldn't
really remember what the images were.
All of the episodes were started while I
was in conversation with someone and were
triggered by what the person said and for
the most part, I can't remember what the
person said. Anyhow. . . I read that
someone posted that they may be stress
related or panic attacks or mini-seizures.
I am usually pretty busy, but this time
of year for me is my least stressful time
and I get plenty of sleep. I have had a
panic attack before - about 10 years ago
and it was very different than the intense
deja vu feeling. During the intense deja
vu feeling, it is almost like I am suppose
to remember a dream, but I cannot remember
it. I tried to induce the feeling so
that I could work on what it was, but I
couldn't and after the last one of the
day, I knew it was going to be over
because I felt differently. Now, if this
is what someone feels who has gone to the
doctor and found out they were having
mini-seizures, please let me know. I
don't know much about mild seizures but it
doesn't sound pleasant and I could
somewhat control the attack if I tried - I
would make myself think about something
else and not let my mind dwell on the
snapshot in my head. Any posting would
be great. It was very comforting reading
that someone else has had these types of
feelings.
Amanda
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TeopDas
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1
Deja Senti Posted: 01-24-06 11:35am
It was so great to come across this and to
read of others who have similar
experiances. Especially when I try to
describe it to my pshyciatrist and get a
'duh?' expression. Now I not only
understand more about what causes it, but
that it is something explainable.
I get a sensation before the initial
deja senti begins, a feeling that it's
building up, on it's way. Then i'm hit
with the most intense set of deja
vu\senti. I use to get quick flashes of
images or...Something. My memory of them
is limited almost entirely to when it's
occuring and unreachable after the
'experiance' has past. I would try to
record what I was thinking while it was
happening, but as they came so fast I was
left with indescript words like; chair,
flying, mad at someone, fast, etc. And
then the moment would pass, I would be
unable to associate my list of thoughts to
any memory. During these episodes, I also
felt an intense feeling of...? It's hard
to expain, it was definately a physical
feeling, not pain, but
horribly...Uncomfortable, that doesn't
seem like the right word. A lot of times
they would be intense to the point that I
felt nauseated.
I'm now on a medication called lamicatal
to treat my bi-polar disorder, which is
also used to treat epilepsy, and epilepsy
connected to deja senti. When I take my
medication regularly, I don't have
experiances but for once in a blue moon.
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jv1478
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 1 Location: New Jersey
Deja Vu & Anxiety? Posted: 06-22-06 18:49pm
I am so relieved that there are other
people out there that are going through
this. Like many of you, i've been to the
doctors and have gotten that look like
your out of your mind. After reading
about temporal lobe seizures being linked
to this strange and very intense feeling
of deja vu, I went to my doctors and he
order up and eeg for me. I went,
everything came back normal and i'm still
getting these episodes because I don't
know what to call them. I can feel them
coming on and they usually last for about
a minute or so, but once it's over, i'm
just completely drained and all I want to
do is sleep. In the interim, my doctor
prescribed xanax, but it doesn't seem to
be doing anything. If any doctor is
reading this, if you could comment on what
you think or if you have any advice, i'm
sure we'd all appreciate it. It's a
scary feeling, but i'm relieved to know
that there are other people out there
going through this and knowing that i'm
not alone.
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benzogirl
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 3
Dp/dr Posted: 06-27-06 20:35pm
I have jamais vu many times, it's called
depersonalization and derealization.
I feel like I am not really here, and
sometimes I can look at people and feel
like they arent familiar, or when I look
outside, I feel like a veil separes me
from the world. I feel like drugged.
It's called derealization too.
I have a live journal, and if you want to
come to my dp/dr community :
i'm a 39-year-old male who has been
experiencing deja vu seizures for 22
years, since I was in a car accident my
senior year of high school. I had a head
injury (bruised brain) and was in a coma
for 13 days and my left side was paralyzed
when I awakened.
Through physical and occcupation therapy I
was able to recover my faculties and
continue with my life, but have had these
intense deja vu feelings regularly
(sometimes once or twice a month,
sometimes once every couple of months)
ever since.
My neurologist had me on dilantin when I
lived in north carolina, and when I moved
to iowa I was switched to tegretol.
However, the side-effects of the
medications were awful so I quit taking
any medications. The deja vu episodes
have not been become more frequent or
intense without the medicine, so i'm
resolved to experiencing them the rest of
my life.
These feelings are usually triggered by
music, and usually occur when I am tired
or under stress. I have experienced them
while driving, while interviewing subjects
for the articles I write, when taking
college exams, etc. I lose my attention
at the time, become a bit sickly, and am
very tired afterwards (like after an
orgasm). The people around me when these
occur cannot tell that anything is
happening, except that I am very
distracted for 20-30 seconds.
Last year I was interviewing someone for a
news story, which was being taped, and
caught on record losing my attention. I
couldn't remember what question I was
about to ask, and had to apologize to the
interview subject while I recovered.
Occasionally I will grab a pen and paper
and write down what triggers these
episodes, but since what I write down
makes no sense afterwards I usually don't
bother to do that anymore.
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