Short-term memory loss post- seizure

RE: RE: RE: RE: Short-term memory loss post- seizure

Submitted by Gretchen1 on Tue, 2005-06-07 - 02:04

Ahhh...shoot I go to post and can't remember other poster's names. MEMORY LOSS. And, yes, mine is getting worse.I DO remember Maggy's name for some reason. I'm only going to agree with Bruce, as always. I've had combinations of simple partials, or maybe that should be put I've had simple partials with more than one symptom at the same time. this is a total guess but your daughter might have been having a simple partial with some very strong deja vu also. I get just straight deja vu, sometimes it's a mild feeling and sometimes it's enough that I can't read. I SWEAR I just read, what I'm reading. It's only a thought.On the original posters? After a t/c? I can have everything from a total memory loss PRE and POST seizure to a spotty loss. Over a period of a week or longer I'll have some of those memories return and it's odd because they'll just pop up in my mind, I always think like pop corn popping up. Not in context with what I'm doing just UP pops this memory. But I wanted to share this one thing that I still find very interesting, and have no explanation for it. Almost all, if not all, of my t/c's are secondized, or come from another sz. Another sz occurs first, worsens then I have a t/c. For 5 months some years ago I was "controled" and working, work I'd done for years. I was very busy but frequently was that busy. These are thoughts I had reflecting back, I remembered I couldn't remember things. I had to keep going and checking something I'd just read. My organization , important to my job, was falling apart. I remember feeling hassled, but not worried I was, just remember I did feel that way, and I wasn't aware of how my cognition was taking a nose dive, but it wasn't bad enough I couldn't function in a high stress job either. But for some reason I didn't identify then, I felt this need for help. I called in another person to help me. She did come in, it was night, and asked me why I asked her to come in and I had to sit back and think then, I wasn't sure. Then at the end of the shift? I had a 2 hour t/c. In a similar situation I was in, which I had been many times, I wouldn't have thought of calling in for help. IOW my cognition was slowing down hours before I had a 2 hour t/c, and I didn't know it. To me? That has a lot of implications. I've thought about that a lot. Anyway to address your question? It is VERY frequent someone will tell me I did something before I sz'd, or I was somewhere before I sz'd and I won't remember it. Or I will remember it but it'll seem like it wasn't on that day. Post ictal memories? Some of those never come back. I've been in speech therapy several times to improve my memory BTW and it really has helped me. A thought for your son.I have a memory, of a memory :)Gretchen