anxiety attachs or something else

Hi

I need help perhaps someone out there has had what i am expierencing an can tell me what I am expieriencing...

It is very hard to describe, one doctor tells me its preseziure another tells me its anxiety....It has been going on for 10 years and I am getting very tired of it....Here is what is happening.....

I feel like I am getting jolts....I can be sleeping, wide awake, or whatever and all of a sudden i get a jolt in my stomach, always with a feeling of something might go wrong....it is hard to describe.  I might get a bad headache after and will sleep for hours on end if i take my medicine to get rid of them....   I have had two seziures in my life and i have been on seziure mediciens

for the past 10 years, the medicine makes me jitter all the time.....

I hate all this and need to find out what these jolts are, no matter what the doctors have said they have not gone away....

Anyway out there ever had the same feelings.

Looking for help please

Hi tbone and welcome.

If you are having seizures you don't want to ignore that and assume it's anxiety. On the other hand, if it's anxiety and you simply treat the assumed seizures your sensations probably won't stop. You're already on seizure medication, so perhaps you could talk with your doctor to make sure that you're still taking the most appropriate medication. It's been ten years. Maybe they've come out with something newer and better. Maybe the medication had been preventing true seizures and your "jolts" are would be seizures or even a side effect.

At the same time regardless of what's causing the "jolts" they may be causing you more anxiety. That is -- anxiety can cause more anxiety; just as a medical ailment can cause anxiety. So, you're already addressing the possibility of seizures. I would suggest then that you start to treat the anxiety. Look into counseling and/or consider adding medication to help with the anxiety. It can only help. Even if the cause is NOT just anxiety alone, you'll still benefit by dealing with the anxiety of "not knowing".

Thank you both - I have been to three seizure doctors and they all tell me the same thing...THere is no way to control the seizures, the say the main reason for seizures are stress and lack of sleep.....Since its been 10 years and my first reason for going to my regular doctor was for the feeling of the jolts, didnt have the seizures until 3 years later...
It is so very frustrating, I appreciate your help....I will keep you informed..
Thank you