Aura

[beverleysblue]

I have an Aura feeling before i have a seizure. This gives me a slight warning to be able to get help. Does anyone know if you take medication does it take the Aura away? thks

[Chimbelina]

My thoughts on this are that seizures can evolve over time and so what might occur at one time in your life may present differently at other times. Medication can lesson the severity of the seizure experienced and so therefore it is possible that the aura before could similarly be diminished. Everyone is an individual and so it is a question of wait and see how your epilepsy evolves and how your medication affects you should you have a break though seizure.

[beverleysblue in reply to Chimbelina]

thankyou

[Hidden]

I agree with Chimbelina on this one. An aura can affect each individual in a totally different way. I do not get an Aura before a seizure and have no warning sign. Auras can be good and bad - if it's a warning sign for you, then be grateful you are able to get help before the seizure starts. Medication can only lessen the severity of the seizure and there are so many different types of epilepsy, that it's difficult to say what will affect one, won't affect another. Just give it time and take your medication as required.

[beverleysblue in reply to Hidden]

thankyou

[Hobbit44]

Hi, I too have aura's but then may not have a full seizure. I have been advised that my medications work to reduce the strength of my seizures and they are what is helping me to reduce the number of aura/seizures and so my advice would be to speak with your doctor/neurologist about a possible increase of your medication to reduce the aura's and thereby your seizures should also reduce. In summary, it is your epilepsy medication that treats the aura's and seizures - they are the same - an aura is a simple seizure. I am under special care in a neurological department and this is the explanation that I was given there. I hope this helps.

[beverleysblue in reply to Hobbit44]

thankyou

[Rosalia]

Hi,

I was diagnosed with epilepsy in december and i have been on carbamazepine.

I've only had one moment where i had an aura, and then i didn't actually have a seizure, i just felt quite laid back. However, before i was put on medication, i had auras followed by a seizure.

i am only on a low dose of carbamazepine, but the aura for me is still prevalent. I suppose the aura gives the body a warning to use the medication.

hope this is useful! x

[beverleysblue]

thankyou, makes me feel better about taking the medication.

[chimaribel]

I have had aura since I was a teenager, but never knew what it was it was until I was diagnosed as an adult. Only in retrospect do I realise what it was (hindsight is 20/20). Now that I am on Topiramate, I still experience aura. Sometimes it precedes a seizure, other times not; however, given that I experience complex partial seizures, I don't always know when I am having a seizure, so this is a difficult one for me to answer. Certainly, the aura I experience is not as strong/involved as it was before I began taking medication, but I also am much older and it may be a physical as well as a chemical change that may have caused that...