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Originally Posted by pegasus
It is likely that you have both, a lot of people have many different diagnosis. Temporal lobe siezures do cause dissociation but they don't cause alters or splitting. You can have epilepsy and DID. Looking at your history, you were diagnosed with DID 12 years ago, the seizures are a recent thing, they are two very different things. Hugs 
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They are two different things, however the simple partial seizures I have can explain my episodes of dissociation. It wouldn't necessarily explain my full blown blackouts but considering I don't know what happened during these blackouts and it was so long ago that I don't remember how I felt before and after makes it hard to determine if they were in fact seizures.
However, my last major blackout that lasted about 8 hours was about 5 years ago. Strange now I'm connecting the dots and see that 3 out of my last 4 major blackouts happened in May time frame which is when I had a major blackout during a traumatic event when I was 14. Last May I had a drop seizure. 3 years before that I had a blackout that lasted 8 hours and me in the hospital.
But with those I'm fairly certain those two were seizures. Although when I went to the hospital 4 years ago no doctors every said anything about seizures, I don't think. Than again I don't remember the hospital really. I kept coming out of it and have flashes of memory from that night but that's it. I was vomiting, laying on the floor, apparenly I just kept yelling "I'm going to die" and was vomiting the whole night. I'm assuming I wasn't responsive in the hospital because one flash I remember was a nurse coming in the room saying she was going to give me a cathadir to which I replied all groggily "No, I can pee in a cup" and next thing I know I'm being discharged from the hospital. With the worst migraine of my life lasting about 5 days. Why would they give me a cathadir unless I wasn't responsive? I was sitting on the couch and the next thing I know I'm in the bathroom vomiting, then I fall and hit my head on the counter and it's just flashes from there for the entire night. But they sent me home. Wish I could get the records but they said they have no records of me. I don't know what's going on with that.
But I just emailed the girl that was with me and asked her the details, hopefully that will shed some light on the topic. You would think if I was having back to back seizures that they would have known something was up so the psych docs always assumed it was a dissociative episode. But with so many different types of seizures and my symptoms during it's hard to tell.
I just want to not have epilepsy and not have DID. I feel for all of you who do have DID and when I'm under a large amount of stress I wish a part would come let me in and let me get away from the stress but that only lasts a few hours at most most of the time, before I'm back to reality with a lot of confusion and headache.