Is Deja Vu anything anyone else experiences with peri?
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good evening.! I have had this phenomenon all my life but never knew what it was. First times were when i first started my monthly. (about 11 ) Off and on but mostly just every once in a long while i’d experience this. Over the years more but still just not often. I noticed it got bad and way more frequent last 5-10 yrs. Right around peri time. I realized all my life it was triggered by hormones. But very unpleasant anyway. For me it was like id be having a conversation or just sitting watching tv or at work etc and it would be like id get a sweeping bizarre feeling like ive had this exact conversation or experience already. I hear th same music in my head each time and i feel lil weak and confused for like lesa than a minute. Usually had to put my head down but im not dizzy just have to have the experience and let it pass. afterward im sleepy and strangely relaxed. Only thing i can come up with researching tons is catamenial epilepsy??? I dont have that. But the “aura” ppl explain sound alot like deja vu. Once inpassed out, well a few times only out of all these episodes. They never found anything. I was in a bookstore and felt it and kinda bent down so not to feel so unstable and fell over and wet myself. Spilled my purse out and came to real quick and felt fine. I think a seizure would make you disoriented for a few min. This was so short and i was back up that nobody ever saw it. lol
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concernedc39869 shawnalb
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shawnalb concernedc39869
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Tell me more. Have you asked Dr about it?
Azzumi shawnalb
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I had to reply to your message it is such a coincidence. Was telling my boyfriend the other day how I was diagnosed with temperal lobe epilepsy about the same time my period started age 11 and I now believe it was hormone related.
Started for me at about age 9 with a very strong sense of deja vu so strong I would feel as though I almost blacked out and would have to sit down. If someone one was talking to me was as if I'd heard it before and the feeling was incredibly intense. I would even visit a house or place I'd never been to before and have this overwhelming feeling I'd already been there. After each episode I would get very tired and have to rest but not for long then I was OK till it happened again. It started to happen up to 4 or 5 times a day and that's when I finally went to a neurologist and they diagnosed me with temperol lobe epilepsy. I continued to have episodes until I was about 20 so about 12 years then they almost vanished. Iv felt it a couple of times over the years but luckily it never returned.
Look up temperol lobe epilepsy.. I truly believe its hormone related.
shawnalb Azzumi
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were you allowed to drive? i never was diagnosed. when you have anxiety like i always have listed on your chart they
dismiss everything. be watching as you hit 40’s that’s when it may flare again.
Azzumi shawnalb
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As I was so young when I was diagnosed driving wasn't really a problem. I didn't have my own car till my 20s and by then the episodes had almost gone. I had a shocking time with pms when I was younger and have gone through hell during peri the past couple of years. I'm 49 now and no period for about 18 months. I'm on bio identicals as iv had a real struggle with serious mood issues but thankfully no sign of the temperol lobe returning.
I will look up what you said as it's all so interesting and has to be hormone related. The thing with temperal lobe epilepsy is its so hard to explain to people what actually happens. I was lucky my mum was with me during my episodes a lot of the time and she knew very quickly something was wrong.
The one thing iv learnt through this peri menopause hell is that our hormones are a lot more powerful than we give them credit for. They shape who we are..
shawnalb Azzumi
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