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Someone answer my question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please!
Thu, 07/19/2007 - 14:52my seisures started when ı was 19 i had memory loss and i kept on asking my friends who i was and where i was so i was sent to england where i was born (ı am from cyprus)The doctor there told me without EEGs to take 200mg of tegretol CR i continued to take them until i was 24 ! Then i went to turkey and a a norologist saw me.He tested many times on me in the end he told me to take (THOUGH HE SAİD İ HAD MİLD EPİLEPSY) 500mg DEPAKİN cHRONO BT one and a half in the mornıgs and one and a half at night! 1 tekgretol in the morning and one tegretol at nıght!...And 100mg of maliasin in the mornigs and night......İN TOTAL 2100MG i take a day!...nOW i am 32 years old and have been takıng this for since i was 24!.......İ feel its too much medication for a person !İs this too much medication for a person and how much mg s a day do u guys take? Just want to know out of curiousity! thx for readıng my post!
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Re: Ghebre, Sorry to hear of
Submitted by Ghebre on Wed, 2007-09-19 - 20:35
Alec, Thanks for asking,,, I was an Engineer in Wireless RF Network industry for 25 years. And ten years ago, I started having Grand & petite Mal epileptic seizures almost two to three day a week. While my Neurologists insist I should take my medications and AVOID working, in dangering my life and my co-workers life, if I have to happen seizures at work, I want to go back to work at anything that will help me able to keep a roof above my head and food on my table, like I always had all my life long. Now, thanks to seizures, I don't have none of anything at all and none of the hospitals, churches, local, state or federal agencies are willing to help to uplift my desperate predicament. I'm NOT sure, WHERE I'm supposed to go, seeking some form of help. I'm afraid it's going to be too late to stop my seizures, when I'm being struck every where, any where and any time, while I'm seeking to keep a roof above my head.
Sad, it' has to come to this point.
Re: Ghebre, Sorry to hear of
Submitted by Ghebre on Thu, 2007-09-27 - 16:29
Alec, Thank you for caring to ask. I have grand and petite mal seizures. If it was not for my seziures, I would like to go back to work in Wireless RF network products manufacturing like I did for over 20 years on anything I could make a living out of. I'm sick and tired of being destitute and desperate homeless, sleepless, hungry and dirty.
But, I'm on waiting list for Brain surgery, even though my neurlogists and the hospital knows I need pre-surgery and post operation recovery stable places.
All odds seem to be against my welbeing and recovery.
It's just frustrating and close to being impossible to carry on.
Thank you for caring to ask.
Gerrie
Re: Re: Ghebre, Sorry to hear of
Submitted by carol33 on Wed, 2007-09-19 - 08:15
Hello, I hope this will help you some, Have you tryed going to the ss office and appling for ssi it takes awhile and it may not work, Bring all of your medical papers with them to your appt,while there ask them about medical you might have to pay some kind of spin down but you should be able to get.If people can get ssi for the reason of being a manic are a recoveing drug addict you should have no problem. I hope this helps. I just remembered if you get denied fight for it you have 3 time to prove that you are no longer able to work. Just dont give up.