[PurpleFlyingMonkeys]

Just wondering where this may go, or what could be the cause. I keep having these flashes. Sometimes it lasts a couple seconds sometimes much much longer. People sit and talk to me, or i hear the tv, but it all seems a mile away. I know people expect a response but i just cant even figure out what theyre saying. It feels like im watching o movie with the volume so low, and my brain feels like it kind of shuts off. Nothing at all makes sense. Not even who i am. Everything just seems so... strange... everything, language, objects, life... i may not be making sense but it happened quite a bit yesterday... just hoping to get some insight...

[Perna]

I'd go see your doctor, make sure you aren't having something neurological going on? I know with TIA's (mini-strokes) that is sort of what it is like and can happen to anyone, any age, etc.:

http://www.webmd.com/stroke/tc/trans...topic-overview

[PurpleFlyingMonkeys]

I've got an appointment with my doctor for next Thursday to discuss getting an eeg and some other brain tests to determine if or why I had my seizure and if or why it may happen again, I had a CT scan done at the hospital on my third visit this month, they said everything looked fine. This is a feeling (above mentioned) I've experienced for quite some time, especially in the last 10 months, twice it was pretty strong the week leading up to my second seizure. My daughter was swimming in the pool and asking me a question. I could hear her talking kind of but I didn't even know how or that I was supposed to respond. It went away after a minute but a few days later it happened again, at the pool with my daughter. Then it happened in the moments leading up to my second seizure, which my t thinks could be related to my DID. At the same time, it seems to happen and to get worse when I'm having a bad day anxiety wise. And at the same time it can still happen (just not as often) when I feel like I'm having a good day. Yesterday it just kept happening, I had to go in bed and lay down for a while until I felt back to normal.

I do want to make sure it's not the above mentioned. Especially since I was on the Mirena (had it removed 3 weeks ago, it's an IUD) and am/was a rather heavy smoker. So blod clots kind of worry me and it shows they are the cause for the "mini strokes" but the ct scan came back fine, hopefully the rest will as well. This just seems connected to my anxiety and connected to my dissociation at the same time. But then again it happens when I'm not anxious or spacey as well. So I thought maybe the doctors are wrong, the old were right and maybe it's from the schizophrenia. It's such a jumbled mess. But I didn't think to bring it up to my regular doctor, I will be sure to next Thursday when I go in

[penguinsing]

May be getting a second opinion from another medical professional ??

That's sounds confusing and complicate. I hope you will get out of mystery soon.

[PurpleFlyingMonkeys]

Thanks penguinsing. I've had so many "second opinions", I really wish it would be figured out, something at least. I've been to about 15 different therapists (probably more if you count when I was just trying to find one and would only visit them for a day) about the same in psych doctors and more in regulart general practitioners. I've had so many tests done. I've been sent to Urologists, neurologists (who claimed I wouldn't have another seizure, which I did) pretty much all of the specialists. There's only one other neurologist I haven't seen here in town, so the ER referred me to him but he's $300 just for an initial visit. Sometimes I just wish House from the TV show was real and I could go in and see him, and wish there was a psych version of House too. No one ever seems to know. They all have their guesses but they just don't know for certain. The things they can't test they just assume that's what it is until something happens to prove it wrong in most cases. But hopefully these tests will at least rule out some scary things...

[brackenbeard]

Originally Posted by PurpleFlyingMonkeys

Just wondering where this may go, or what could be the cause. I keep having these flashes. Sometimes it lasts a couple seconds sometimes much much longer. People sit and talk to me, or i hear the tv, but it all seems a mile away. I know people expect a response but i just cant even figure out what theyre saying. It feels like im watching o movie with the volume so low, and my brain feels like it kind of shuts off. Nothing at all makes sense. Not even who i am. Everything just seems so... strange... everything, language, objects, life... i may not be making sense but it happened quite a bit yesterday... just hoping to get some insight...

have you been in your head more than usual? is stuff constantly running through your mind? i believe sometimes thinking can take us out of our situation and make us confused or disoriented.