Autonomic Seizures

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At the end of November , I stupidly accepted a piggy back after a few beers.... unfortunately I went straight over the top smacked my head on the floor. I don't remember what happened before the incident and I think I may have briefly blacked out. The following day I went to the hospital , had a skull xray - nothing broken but suspected a mild concussion. Had a very large bump on my head , and definately concust. I felt strange in the hospital and actually thinking about it I think it was similar to the episodes I am experiencing now.

At the start of January , I started feeling dizzy and getting palpitations. This quickly developed into a strange intense feeling in my stomach, sweating all over, heart racing, dizzy and feeling very peculiar indeed - sort of out of it. As time has gone on more symptoms have developed. I now have diarreah / stomach upset / shivering which sometimes happens before an episode / during or afterwards. I have also been experiencing xigzag lines in my vision , this is something I have had a while particularly when I look at a bright sky - but more recently I have had brief episodes of the zigzags in a darker room. I also have some strange images when I wake up and I often wake up with a start and then yesterday I had a weird sensation on my right arm - tingling/ shivers senstion looked down and my arm was covers in goosebumps but patches of goosebumps rather than all over my arm - this latest say 15 seconds and then went. The visual disturbances, stomach upsets and goosebumps I havent discussed with the GP as I hadnt tied them together. The GP had me referred me to have my heart checked out and this has been all clear, they presribed me with citalopram for anxiety but I have been taking the pills for 8 weeks and these episodes are worse now. I have been investigating and wondered if these sound like Autonomic Seizures which may have started due to the head injury ? 

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