When I ws pregnant ears ago and I was pregnant a LOT there for awhile, I had epilepsy but didn't know it? Many times just as I laid down I'd hear a very loud rifle shot go off.
Well Spiz you and I and Dayna seem to be traveling down the same path - a lot!YES I do hear my name when I'm totally alone in the house and it is heard slightly louder than normal, but very clear. I personally could skip this aura and not miss it one bit.Gretchen I don't know how this would abort a potentially worse sz coming on than a simple, but often it does.All I just typed? Is anecdotal information and should not ever be considered as the medical gospel but only experiences of my life. If I have an uncomfortable smell aura I now either get out my essence of violet or more usually smell coffee grounds. Usually it helps a lot, but sometimes is just doesn't. So we keep coffee grounds, not beans because their smell we've found isn't heavy enough, i a tightly sealed cannister I can bury my nose into to relieve a smell aura. Why? Because if you go into a specialty store only smelling perfumes, after 2-3 perfumes our smell discrimination between one brand to another falls apart but if you smell coffee grounds? It tends to clean up all the other smells. She then suggested I try smelling coffee grounds. That's an aura of hearing and I personally find it extremely unnerving.-A very smart ER nurse with a lot of years of experience in treating sz'ing people in her ER once put a cotton ball with essence of violet on it, which in itself was strong but not as distasteful as "basement" and it did seem to dissipate that phenomena I was uncomfortably experiencing. I will hear "I'm home" in a totally empty house, it's my husband's voice very clearly heard, and he is not home,he's at work. IOW if you have never smelled for instance "spring time in Paris"? You have no ability to do so in an alfactory hallucination.-I have other sense related hallucinations besides olfactory or smell. The reason for this is that the brain is malfunctioning and reviving the memory of these sensations. Sometimes I'm just bedeviled by the other whelming smell that yes, can have a taste for me like my epileptologist said.What my epileptologist told me is this:-All five senses can have "hallucinations" or memories of past experiences - such as smelling burning chicken feathers which was my worst and lasted several years.-You will not smell, feel, touch, taste, hear anything you haven't before.
Usually for me? It portends a sz is coming on.
I'll always have just one of the above and am usually relieved when it changes to another. I have asked people - do you smell burning chicken feathers? Actually I asked a group I was in with once before I had ever experienced "olfactory hallucinations", my doctor's terminology of this event, and after this group's response to that question? I am VERY careful who I ask if they smell an overwhelming smell of:-"basement" or musty mildew and dust-beer-burning chicken feathers (I was raised on a farm and during the time we slaughtered our chickens we dunked their bodies in hot vats of water to remove feathers, and it's a very strong smell)-and several other scents I've been assaulted with but can't remember them all now.For me? I'll have one of those for months. I love this topic! BECAUSE I am warned by overwhelmingly strong scents I'm about to have a sz worse than a partial, it is more of a warning or aura for me.