From the begining of my adult onset seizures, my doctor asked if I had any auras. While not knowing what an aura felt like, I said “no.” Yet, all my seizures were grand mal,and all immediately upon waking in the morning, within a day of the full moon.
Only recently have I begun to have seizures during the day, and I have discovered they are preceded by a feiling of dizziness. Yet I have begun to have what I believe are auras. I experience the deja vu feeling, and also a warm feeling rising up from my gut. I feel everyday acts like washing my hands in cold water or shaving will begin these feelings, and I can avert them from continuing or becoming a seizure through sitting down and deep breathing.
For what it is worth, my doctor says this could help us to find a therapudic level of medication by using the presence, or lack there of, as an indicator of how effective the levels are.

Thanks for the comments.

Ahhh…finally some talk about aura’s! Over the years of dealing with Epilepsy I’ve had various kinds of seizures; from Grand Mal, Complex Partial, to my daily staring ones. I guess the doctors would call me one of the lucky ones as well, since I have aura’s.

Like my seizures, I have had aura’s of various kinds as well. Only rather than the deja’ vu’, I have the jama’ vu’ or the (I’ve been here before, but nothing seems normal or everything seems strange kind). Also, I have the kind where words and numbers begin to make no sense at all or are seemingly impossible to read. The last, and most typical kind I get are the ones that are visual which begin with a bright white dot that flashes in the center of my vision, almost or maybe even exactly to the rate of my heart beat, and all that is in my visual sight seems to slightly twist as if being thrown into a tunnel.

The first two are the most rare, and I get them only once in a while, though the last one comes daily. If the bright dot flashing in front of me gets brighter and flashes faster, the tunnel vision more twisty, I know I’m just seconds away from a staring seizure!

You mentioned that when you get an aura that you know a seizure is coming. However, over the years of dealing with aura’s, I have tried experimenting with these signals and trying to get my seizures to stop. I have noticed that sometimes, my experiments have worked, and rather than going from aura to seizure, I am able to go from aura back to normal! This doesn’t always work, though sometimes it does, and I will always try.

The second I get that bright dot flashing in front of me, and things seem to flip in a twisty tunnel that directs my vision I immediately move my sight around and about from place to place, in depth and in reach. Along with moving my sight about, I try to calm the fear in my mentality and place my thoughts on ANYTHING other than that dot. Something maybe I have done, a place I have been, or something I would like to do. Doing these things together, on occasion, has stopped that dot from flashing, my vision from slight flip twisting, and prevented the hard core tunnel vision staring seizures to start up!

I’ve never actually mentioned this to anyone, so if anyone out there is someone who is having aura’s and seizures that meds or surgery can’t stop, I would recommend trying to practice various mental experiments while the aura’s are taking place. Even though I can’t always stop them, it has still worked for me so many times that I can’t but seem to think that there is actually something to this practice.
For instance, an example might be: If you are one who has daja’ vu’ aura’s, you might try consistently telling yourself, (while the aura is taking place) “I don’t know these people, or I don’t know where I am.” Regardless of how you may feel. It’s just a thought for ones like those, but it was doing things like this over the years, and doing them over and over again, that helped me find what has seemed to stop my seizures from happening from time to time. That is unless the kindling aura’s may just stop on their own account regardless. Though, it doesn’t hurt to try or ask a doctor about it.