I have been having what the docs called when I was 18 petite mal seizures due to stress. Now I have no clue. All I know is when I was 18 I started to have black out periods of just staring off into space. Then afterwards a really bad headache. And asthma attacks. Then it stopped being that. It started to be where I was consious. My vision would shake from side to side. Like a violent earthquake inside of my head. I could feel my brain actually moving. Not a good feeling for sure. Then the big headache afterwards. Its been happening like this ever since. I went to an appointment I had for my daughter with her pediatrician. I had one right there in the office. The doc looked at me kinda wierd at first then asked me what was wrong. I told him. He said it saounded like a petite mal seizure due to stress. But was not understanding why I was having it because usually children have this. I still have it till this day, and I am 29 now, but more and more frequently. And its scaring me. From time to time my cheeks, eyelids, upper arm muscles, calf muscles, and thighs have twitches. They dont hurt. Just annoying. But I have been starting to get dizzy and nausious. I work at a gas station and have to be alert. Its kinda hard to do that with this going on. Most of the time it lasts about a minute but it make me feel extremely tired and a bad headache. Hard to work like that. But sometimes it will last hours. Thats really scary. I have actually had to call someone in to come in for me so I could go home. Its getting worse and I am getting more scared. I have had an EEG but never showed up on it. I know I need to see a neurologist. And I am going soon. But just an idea as to what to expect and maybe what the heck this really is. Any body know? Any body got any ideas? Please help. Thank you.

I really have no idea, but I believe certain tics can be like or classified as some kind of seizure or seizure like activity as well. With tics, its considered both genetic and environmental in some or all cases. So for example.. some people have a trigger with stress, or perhaps caffine.. maybe the fumes of gas could be triggering it for you IF and I say IF (because I am not one to be giving diagnosies here, I'm not a doctor) you were to have a tic.

For some people with tics, they have found that they can be controled (but don't disappear competely) through medication management. Its seems to have been found that sometimes tics manifest more when people are deficiant in things such as magnesium or B12... haveing blood tests done could tell if you are deficiant in anything, and in some cases I've heard, even the blood work doesn't tell all, sometimes they have to look innercellularly, which all doc's may not check.

Otherwise, if it is a seizure, you may have to do a much longer EEG, you may need have one that is done as a hospital stay where you are continuously monitored until you have a couple of these episodes, but I don't know enough about these pediatric seizures to know if they actually show up on an EEG or not... it would be a good question to ask your Neurologist, becuase if that's the case you may indeed be having seizures, but it may not be something that shows up with an EEG... I just don't know. Good luck to you and God Bless! Get this figured out soon, okay!? And then let us know what comes of it.

Thank you pearl for your response. Just wish someone out there has had the same thing I am going through. Someone who might know what this really is. If only. Again thank you.

Dani