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What seizure meds are also anti-anxiety?
Mon, 11/08/2010 - 20:33I don't know if I can take the extra anxiety from the lamictal for too much longer. I have to do so much and go to therapy to contain it. Otherwise my sense of awareness is so strong that I get adrenaline rushes from loud sounds or get nervous in a car ride. I have this constant neck tightness also from being nervous. I will talk to my Dr. soon to see if it's worth taking anymore because I also can't sleep without trazodone.
So what are my options for ant-anxiety anti-convulsants? I have JME or generalized ep.
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Re: What seizure meds are also anti-anxiety?
Submitted by Revelation 21.4 on Thu, 2010-11-11 - 19:12
Obviously you interpreted my comment wrong. I just suggested private messaging so that we can stay on topic. Also it helps the ones talking to eachother so that they don't have to go through all the posts. I understand your sensitivity but I assure you after 27 years of dealing with epilepsy I am very sensitive to others not only with this condition but anyone who suffers with anything. With epilepsy it will forcefully give you thick skin over time. Since your rather new to epilepsy I can tell you got a lot of calluses to build. We don't get through this disease without them.
Obviously you interpreted my comment wrong. I just suggested private messaging so that we can stay on topic. Also it helps the ones talking to eachother so that they don't have to go through all the posts. I understand your sensitivity but I assure you after 27 years of dealing with epilepsy I am very sensitive to others not only with this condition but anyone who suffers with anything. With epilepsy it will forcefully give you thick skin over time. Since your rather new to epilepsy I can tell you got a lot of calluses to build. We don't get through this disease without them.
Re: What seizure meds are also anti-anxiety?
Submitted by zealot on Fri, 2010-11-12 - 18:52
Angela, I'm glad you finally found a good doctor. PCOS is has many comorbidities. I really don't think doctors know what it is or how to treat it.
Of course, women with PCOS are overrepresented in "psychiatric populations." Hormones are powerful and they do stuff in our brains, not just as messengers in the blood stream. If they used natural hormones for treatment it would be different, but they can't patent them.
I think you are correct that the HT caused you damage. So did the original condition. It's a tough one.
I have a suspicion that PCOS is another "symptom set" that has become a "treatable disorder." If it were treatable, the treatments would have a higher success rate. Again, I think that there is an underlying causal factor or factors that is or are being overlooked.
It is a known fact that hormones influence epilepsy so I'm pretty sure your instincts are right. Catamenial Epilepsy is almost a cliche. Maybe if you can get your hormone levels straightened out the seizures will remit.
I know I have sustained some pretty serious brain damage over the years, the most egregiious at the hands of the stinks. I literally cannot see straight. Parallel lines don't look parallel. Squares don't look square. I said his before: the world looks like a fun house mirror only it isn't any fun.
Losing one's life work is difficult. I know I used to have that American "you are what you do" disease. I had a really tough time when I had to stop working. I had to find a new way to define myself.
I wish I could say it gets easier. For me it hasn't. I pray that for you it will.
Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.
Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help!
P.S. Please read my blog. Thanks.
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Angela, I'm glad you finally found a good doctor. PCOS is has many comorbidities. I really don't think doctors know what it is or how to treat it.
Of course, women with PCOS are overrepresented in "psychiatric populations." Hormones are powerful and they do stuff in our brains, not just as messengers in the blood stream. If they used natural hormones for treatment it would be different, but they can't patent them.
I think you are correct that the HT caused you damage. So did the original condition. It's a tough one.
I have a suspicion that PCOS is another "symptom set" that has become a "treatable disorder." If it were treatable, the treatments would have a higher success rate. Again, I think that there is an underlying causal factor or factors that is or are being overlooked.
It is a known fact that hormones influence epilepsy so I'm pretty sure your instincts are right. Catamenial Epilepsy is almost a cliche. Maybe if you can get your hormone levels straightened out the seizures will remit.
I know I have sustained some pretty serious brain damage over the years, the most egregiious at the hands of the stinks. I literally cannot see straight. Parallel lines don't look parallel. Squares don't look square. I said his before: the world looks like a fun house mirror only it isn't any fun.
Losing one's life work is difficult. I know I used to have that American "you are what you do" disease. I had a really tough time when I had to stop working. I had to find a new way to define myself.
I wish I could say it gets easier. For me it hasn't. I pray that for you it will.
Baruch Hashem. Hoshia na.
Devorah Zealot Soodak http://psychout.typepad.com/ the zealot needs help!
P.S. Please read my blog. Thanks.
P.P.S. Please click here to read my latest post.