Deja-Vu, Flashbacks, and Anxiety. Help!

You are not the only one. I have searched this online quite a lot over the past year or so. This has been happening to me for 10 years. It only happens after a period (few days) of high stress. It is scary and zaps all your energy for a couple of days later. I am not going to see a doctor about this as I am sure it is stress related. Also after reading hundreds of peoples experiences put me at ease. Go to google and type in "simple partial seizures" it is very interesting. One thing that i have noticed is that it happens to all types of people. I am a single mum, very busy and highly stressed at times so put it down to that. But I have read online the messages from teenage girls, young men, middle aged women. I really feel for you and all the people who are experiencing it for the first time because it is frightening. However, for me, it doesn't hang around for more that a day or two. Even though you feel like you are going crazy, you're not :-)

I started to have day-dream like de-ja vu episodes a few years ago. I have a feeling it is stress related. The first time it happened, I wrote it off as near heat stroke or heat exhaustion, or food poisoning, as I ended up vomiting and the other solid voiding process down below.

I know I am a nervous worrying person, perhaps distracted and hyper at times, but, I've never had serious anxiety. I don't take medication. Much of my stress is the result of my own behaviour or response to life's adventures.

My de-ja vu's vary, but, they are more like a memory recall than a confusion that I've been there (physically or mentally) before. There is some feeling of de-ja vu, but it's more like I am reminded of a memory, rather than I actually feel the typical de-ja vu. The weirdest way I can describe it is like a taste you would taste in your mouth or nose, but it's in my brain. A mild feeling of anxiety-like feeling comes over me, and there is concern I will get dizzy or vomit or who knows what. I have learned to simply relax, and it often passes. Happened twice while cycling and a couple times while driving. I need to change my lifestyle habits. I don't drink much at all (usually no more than one or two beers a couple times a week, sometimes no drinks for days, weeks. I'm not a smoker. Other symptoms include ringing in my ears, or rumbling. Also get migrains that take away parts of vision, usually goes away. Have asked eye doctor, says it's stress. Once I felt like I was going to pass out, and a doctor said it was temporary low blood pressure.

Anyhow, just sharing my experience...

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I must add, my episodes only last for seconds or minutes. The feeling seems extreme and foreign at the time, so it raises concern (makes me worry..blech!)..but I've never experienced the feeling for more than a few minutes. I don't feel great afterwards though. Even if the main episode only lasts a short time, I don't feel so great for quite a while after. I don't feel confused or un-able to think straight. I just feel oddly reminded of thoughts and feelings that aren't in the moment.

I believe in part that my body is reacting to my often hyper, nervous and sometimes stressful way of behaving and reacting to things, and some times, it is out of sync. Just a theory.

Look at info on "temporal lobe epilepsy"!!!

Blacked out several times, around 2001, and was put on Prozac. When I cut back on dosage the dejavu problem occurs. It is TV or radio, that usually triggers it for me. Break out in sweat for a couple of minutes.

Doctors have been useless for me. Keep thinking it is depression or blood sugar. Just found out about TLE a few days ago.

I hope this helps someone!