In a certain respect I’m so glad this is a thing. It’s never happened to me before- usually I have an immediate identifiable trigger. They’re always the same until recently. At first everyone said that’s what it was but it was so different and terrifying than anything else over the past decade since I had them I was convinced there was something wrong- like a mini stroke.
On the flip side, I have recently been scheduled to have an EEG bc seizures are common in the early days of Lupus, which Ive just been diagnosed with. Partials Seizure descriptions are damned near identical to what I’ve been struggling to describe for about a year now and a random hyper intensity in my frontal lobe could be from that or whatever.
I’m relieved they’re finally taking me seriously but now I’m the one that’s not so sure they’re not panic attacks as one of the lastest episode followed a sudden palpable spike in my anxiety while I was reading a chest x ray describing a newly acquired lung nodule.
Nothing happened at the time, I just felt my heart sink but a couple hours later suddenly a buncha weird stuff happened. I dunno if it’s cause anxiety is triggering the response but I feel perfectly fine until like 40 secs after it starts then less than two mins later it’s over and I’m in a sort of fog for a bit.
I dunno maybe it’s just wishful thinking on my part bc no one wants epilepsy. Here’s to hoping tho.