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Memory and Seizures
Tue, 10/22/2013 - 23:29Comments
Re: Memory and Seizures
Submitted by asicengineer on Sat, 2013-10-26 - 16:29
Hi Guys,
Please look up for pills based on 'huperzine-A' . This is something which is supposed to improve cognitive functioning. You can find more info from wiki and also from a site called webmd.com
if your neuro agrees to prescribe this, and if this helps in anyway after taking it, please keep updating this comment section with your feedbacks. I've recently started taking it for the past month or so and i'm able to make out some difference. But, it'll be nice to know that this is not a placebo and it actually works, based on comments from whomever is taking this medicine.
It might help people who visit the forum in the longer run as well.
Cheers,
asic
Hi Guys,
Please look up for pills based on 'huperzine-A' . This is something which is supposed to improve cognitive functioning. You can find more info from wiki and also from a site called webmd.com
if your neuro agrees to prescribe this, and if this helps in anyway after taking it, please keep updating this comment section with your feedbacks. I've recently started taking it for the past month or so and i'm able to make out some difference. But, it'll be nice to know that this is not a placebo and it actually works, based on comments from whomever is taking this medicine.
It might help people who visit the forum in the longer run as well.
Cheers,
asic
Re: Memory and Seizures
Submitted by ral on Wed, 2013-10-23 - 12:27
i'm somewhere between those 2 numbers over the last 5 years or so. I have problems with memory as well, short-term primarily.
I am attributing it mostly to the various meds that i've tried taking to "help" stop/slow down the seizures. Some experts have tried to convince me that the seizures themselves may be what is the main culprit. While that could be true and certainly a combination of the two may be as well ... i am going with the belief that the seizures themselves have not been the cause.
Guess that didn't truly answer your question. For me personally i am at a 2-3 day after the seizure i am back to about where i was prior to it. As a result of my belief that the meds were causing more damage than help i have stopped taking them and am hoping to also stop damaging my memory (which, like you, i would describe as semi-photographic previously).
Incidentally i have gone 2-3 months seizure free since stopping and was in a 1-2 month range while medicated. Is that change the cause? Is it chance? Is it i have confronted the stress in my home life? Is it belief/hope that i may be able to overcome? who knows ... but like an alcoholic/drug addict i am taking my life day by day & appreciative of each one that is seizure free.
diatribe over - good luck!
i'm somewhere between those 2 numbers over the last 5 years or so. I have problems with memory as well, short-term primarily.
I am attributing it mostly to the various meds that i've tried taking to "help" stop/slow down the seizures. Some experts have tried to convince me that the seizures themselves may be what is the main culprit. While that could be true and certainly a combination of the two may be as well ... i am going with the belief that the seizures themselves have not been the cause.
Guess that didn't truly answer your question. For me personally i am at a 2-3 day after the seizure i am back to about where i was prior to it. As a result of my belief that the meds were causing more damage than help i have stopped taking them and am hoping to also stop damaging my memory (which, like you, i would describe as semi-photographic previously).
Incidentally i have gone 2-3 months seizure free since stopping and was in a 1-2 month range while medicated. Is that change the cause? Is it chance? Is it i have confronted the stress in my home life? Is it belief/hope that i may be able to overcome? who knows ... but like an alcoholic/drug addict i am taking my life day by day & appreciative of each one that is seizure free.
diatribe over - good luck!
Re: Memory and Seizures
Submitted by Harry T. on Wed, 2013-10-23 - 11:30
I have had about 30 Grand Mal(tonic/clonic) over many years. Sometimes it takes me 4 or 5 days to fully be functional. Yes my memory is temporarily impaired,as well as concentration, but it does come back. Like you I am in an exhausted daze. I am told, this is common, by my neurologist and it takes that long for your brain function to recover. When I have partial seizures I recover more quickly depending on their severity. I am on Lamictal and it does seem to help minimize problems somewhat
I have had about 30 Grand Mal(tonic/clonic) over many years. Sometimes it takes me 4 or 5 days to fully be functional. Yes my memory is temporarily impaired,as well as concentration, but it does come back. Like you I am in an exhausted daze. I am told, this is common, by my neurologist and it takes that long for your brain function to recover. When I have partial seizures I recover more quickly depending on their severity. I am on Lamictal and it does seem to help minimize problems somewhat