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anger and rage

Tue, 06/22/2010 - 14:47
I am on 900mg trileptal generic and been doing very well.I am concerned about these extreme bouts of rage.Where do they fit in the picture.Are they related to a seizure or just another side effect of medication or symptom of left tle?I am on a slow burn of anger all the time but I try to hide it from my kids.Every once in a while it erupts-I smash sweepers when they dont pick up what i want them to and I throw stuff out windows and follow up by busting it up.Its never directed at people-only things although I do scream and yell at offending people and have been told I am hateful,but I generally control that.Although i have a corroborating eeg and classical symptoms,they could only catch on VEEG what they call a paroxysmal nes.With my meds I know longer have hallucinations and I dont feel on the brink of madness and Im not misplacing time so I feel like Im doing pretty good except for this.Dont feel like my psychologist is of any help and went off my celexa months ago-it was worthless-Im not a big fan of the "soft sciences"

Comments

Re: anger and rage

Submitted by zealot on Sat, 2010-11-06 - 01:03

night...

Trileptal is extremely depressing.  It also causes fear.  A lot of the AEDs can do this.  It depends on your individual phsyiological vulnerabilities.

I'm very glad it was almost.  I was on Trileptal for five or six years and had a terrible time.  It's safe to say that the Trileptal ruined my health and took the rest of my life along with it.  I'm alive, but I'm very ill.  I'm grateful to be alive though.

Baruch Hashem.  Hoshia na.

Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help!  Please read my blog.  The link is after my name.

night...

Trileptal is extremely depressing.  It also causes fear.  A lot of the AEDs can do this.  It depends on your individual phsyiological vulnerabilities.

I'm very glad it was almost.  I was on Trileptal for five or six years and had a terrible time.  It's safe to say that the Trileptal ruined my health and took the rest of my life along with it.  I'm alive, but I'm very ill.  I'm grateful to be alive though.

Baruch Hashem.  Hoshia na.

Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help!  Please read my blog.  The link is after my name.

Re: anger and rage

Submitted by yeahright on Fri, 2010-11-05 - 14:36

I don't take the same medication as you. I take 800mg carbamazepine a day and 250mg of Topamax. I just posted on another sight asking women if I was a nutcase. I went from demure, petite 42 year old mom and new granny to a freak on my periods. I don't know if it's the new 400mg's of carb I take a day plus the extra 100 mg of Topamax added on top of the regular dose on my period or a type of angry, disturbing seizure.

My husband of 23 years knows not to approach me now. Let me freak and hit the floor. It ends on it's own as quickly as it starts. He tried to help me and in some fog, he frightened me and I punched him. I feel terrible. If epilepsy isn't bad enough, I hit my best friend in the mouth and I don't know why. I jumped on my best friend and punched him. Then semi-lost consciousness. Wow...

Too much drugs?? Not enough drugs??  Tonic clonic woman reaches all time, never before new low.

Please tell me why, somebody. Why??

I ment for this to go to the bottom of YOUR thread. My sincere apologies.

I don't take the same medication as you. I take 800mg carbamazepine a day and 250mg of Topamax. I just posted on another sight asking women if I was a nutcase. I went from demure, petite 42 year old mom and new granny to a freak on my periods. I don't know if it's the new 400mg's of carb I take a day plus the extra 100 mg of Topamax added on top of the regular dose on my period or a type of angry, disturbing seizure.

My husband of 23 years knows not to approach me now. Let me freak and hit the floor. It ends on it's own as quickly as it starts. He tried to help me and in some fog, he frightened me and I punched him. I feel terrible. If epilepsy isn't bad enough, I hit my best friend in the mouth and I don't know why. I jumped on my best friend and punched him. Then semi-lost consciousness. Wow...

Too much drugs?? Not enough drugs??  Tonic clonic woman reaches all time, never before new low.

Please tell me why, somebody. Why??

I ment for this to go to the bottom of YOUR thread. My sincere apologies.

Re: anger and rage

Submitted by shepherd on Sat, 2010-11-06 - 06:55

Thats how my TLE was partially diagnosed this year by my intense anger and rage, especially around my periods and often directed at my partner.  I would go insane and take something he had said into something completely out of context and go nuts with it.  It was initially thought I had Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, so I was sent to a psychiatrist who straight away after hearing my history and symptoms was sure it was Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, which then meant all the tests etc and a nuerologist who "thinks" she is right as all tests were normal except my EEG which showed a slight abnormality.

I think like mentioned above rather than the anger it was the fact that my brain just felt like it was spinning so fast and I couldnt get my partner to understand why I was feeling the way I did, that I would just explode.

At work I tried so hard to control it but often I would need to go to the toilets for some time out as otherwise would find myself arguing with a co worker.

This all happend before medication!

Now that I have started meds I still feel the confusion, my head spinning and the anger rising but I am able to control it more, having said that I do know that some meds can do this to you as well.  I initially started on Valproate and Efexor for anxiety, now they are changing me over to Tegretol CR as I started to go backwards with my seizures.  I'm still in transition from one to the other so hopefully it will go well.

So I think someone stated this below as well but you are probably experiencing both!

Good luck Dot

Thats how my TLE was partially diagnosed this year by my intense anger and rage, especially around my periods and often directed at my partner.  I would go insane and take something he had said into something completely out of context and go nuts with it.  It was initially thought I had Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, so I was sent to a psychiatrist who straight away after hearing my history and symptoms was sure it was Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, which then meant all the tests etc and a nuerologist who "thinks" she is right as all tests were normal except my EEG which showed a slight abnormality.

I think like mentioned above rather than the anger it was the fact that my brain just felt like it was spinning so fast and I couldnt get my partner to understand why I was feeling the way I did, that I would just explode.

At work I tried so hard to control it but often I would need to go to the toilets for some time out as otherwise would find myself arguing with a co worker.

This all happend before medication!

Now that I have started meds I still feel the confusion, my head spinning and the anger rising but I am able to control it more, having said that I do know that some meds can do this to you as well.  I initially started on Valproate and Efexor for anxiety, now they are changing me over to Tegretol CR as I started to go backwards with my seizures.  I'm still in transition from one to the other so hopefully it will go well.

So I think someone stated this below as well but you are probably experiencing both!

Good luck Dot

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