Alternative Theories and/or Treatments of simple partial seizures

Post date: 2020-09-25 06:41:07

YANMD. I think both my daughter and I experience simple partial seizures. If not, what do you think they may be? In any case, what steps might you take to reduce our "episodes"? More below the fold.

I never told anyone about my "episodes" until my teenage daughter started to describe the same phenomena. I will try to describe them to the best of my ability, but sometimes I have a dissociative state in which I feel like I am having a premonition - I usually have a vision in my head of a person or event and there is particular song that accompanies it - and it make me nauseous to the point I have to stop what I am doing until it passes. It doesn't last for very long, 30 seconds or a minute. I feel very unsettled. I have had them for as long as I can remember but they are infrequent enough I've never bothered to be concerned about them. (Also - I didn't want to be looked sideways for saying I can see thing and have premonitions).

Now my teen daughter is describing the same thing to me. Googling it seems to suggest that they could be simple partial seizures (I am guessing psychic variety) - also possibly related to hormones (catamenial epilepsy). Under normal pre-covid time I would bring this up with her doctor, and I assume the doctor would say - "huh - that's weird - let me know if it impacts routine functioning." Well my daughter has been complaining about their frequency lately. (Four in one day to my four in one year). I am at the point that I am willing to take the first step and ask random internet strangers for advice.

My first question is what are the other possible explanations for these episodes if any? And then, what would you do to reduce or treat them? Things I am planning on doing:

- keeping a diary of them for her - and maybe myself but I am less concerned about me
- tracking food/sleep/menstrual cycle for patterns

Even if covid weren't a thing right now, I'd be hesitant to rush to a doctor for this (If you think otherwise, why is that?) I will bring it up the next she has her annual exam. In the meantime, do you have other suggestions? TIA

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