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Someone please help.. this is hell.
Sat, 02/07/2015 - 18:59I had a seizure over a week ago by myself. It was on Jan 26th. I have been to the doctor and they don't even freaking know what to do. And this is making me so depressed that I REFUSE to live my life like this. Not only that but I have found ZERO help online or at any doctors, through information with what could be wrong.
Ever since I had the seizure (I'm guessing it was a tonic clonic since I had auras, and I was unconsious.. woke on the ground in IMMENSE pain that lingered for days). Ever since 1/26.. I've been STUCK IN THE POSTITCAL STAGE. STUCK IN THAT STAGE. I feel SLOW.. I FEEL STUPID. I DON'T THINK. And doctors don't even care.. they just think it's my MEDS.. BUT I'VE BEEN ON THE SAME MEDS for 11 YEARS and I've BEEN FINE EVER since I had that seizure.
I do stupid things.. like I just DONT THINK anymore. It's hard to read anything and understand it or absorb the information. I walked into a room a couple minutes ago and the light was broken. So instead of realizing i could turn on the LAMP.. I just tried to find my clothes in the DARK. I DO THINGS WITHOUT THINKING.
It feels like I'm in a haze and It's making me go insane.. because I KNOW THIS is not me. I can't even complete my homework for my college psychology courses because I NO LONGER UNDERSTAND IT and I no longer can FOCUS LONG ENOUGH TO EVEN READ IT!
WHEN WILL THIS STAGE GO AWAY. I want to feel normal again before I do something drastic to end this hellish nightmare
I may be ictal? Ictal refers
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2015-02-08 - 21:57
I may be ictal? Ictal refers to the state of being in a seizure. Why would I be in a seizure if I've never felt this way until I had teh tonic clonic.. which i've also had a series of them for 11 years. So why all of a sudden would I be ictal after a tonic clonic.