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Low Grade Fever
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Can a low grade fever be an aura? I've noticed I get these sometimes before I have a seizure

posted December 19, 2015
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Experiential aura

An experiential aura involves affective, mnemonic (memory) or perceptual subjective phenomena including depersonalization and hallucinatory events; these may appear alone or in combination. Experiential aura include the following types:

-Affective aura are characterized by phenomena such as fear, depression, joy and anger.
-Mnemonic aura are characterized by memory phenomena such as feelings of familiarity (déjà vu) and unfamiliarity (jamais vu).
-Hallucinatory aura are characterized by imagined complex sensory phenomena that may involve visual (e.g. formed images), auditory (e.g. hearing voices) or other sensory modalities, without change in awareness. The sensory phenomena may be accompanied by associated emotion or interpretation e.g. may be experienced as persecutory.
-Illusory aura are characterized by an alteration of actual perception involving visual, auditory, somatosensory, olfactory, and/or gustatory phenomena, without change in awareness.

posted December 23, 2015
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

no...but it can be a trigger

posted December 19, 2015
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So an Aura is defined as...

Aura is the term used to describe symptoms that may occur before a seizure. An aura may include:
Visual changes. Examples include:
Bright lights.
Zigzag lines.
Slowly spreading spots.
Distortions in the size or shape of objects.
Blind or dark spots in the field of vision.
Hearing voices or sounds (auditory hallucinations).
Strange smells (olfactory hallucinations).
Feelings of numbness or tingling on one side of your face or body.
Feeling separated from your body.
Anxiety or fear.
Nausea.

As for Triggers... it says...
To tell if something is a trigger:

Sometimes people think just because a situation happened once or twice, it’s a trigger to all their seizures. It’s important to realize that a trigger is something that occurs fairly consistently before seizures and more often than by chance.

So...just some information to help you. The best thing to do is make sure to track what the temperature, if you have a seizure after it and what kind of seizure you have if you do. I know that fevers are a trigger for me, If I have fever of anything in the 100 degree area I am almost guaranteed a seizure...

posted December 23, 2015
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I've never heard of that. But infections, sickness can be a trigger

posted December 20, 2015
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Don't know about a fever, but I always feel warm just before a seizure comes on!

posted December 24, 2015

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