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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy blowing up at work
Sun, 05/20/2007 - 13:45In November 06 I had a VNS implant. It has helped with seizures. But I've been blowing up at work on a regular basis and it is getting worse. Saw my neuro. yesterday and he said the VNS is stopping the seizures so they are building up like they do in TLE and I blow. I used to do this when I was young and then I'd have a seizure. He wants me to take Topamax to replace Carbatrol which I've taken for 30 years and keep taking the Trileptal. Anyone else relate with this? Thanks, Jean
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Submitted by spaznurse on Wed, 2007-06-13 - 21:33
I am glad to read your post Raegan as I am newly diagnosed ans struggling to understand these rages and staring spells I have (also TLE) I too wish to control the rage and hope it will be soon. Thanks for sharing some hope. I feel so badly for the children I read about here...because if I as an adult cannot manage, how can a child rationalize what is happening to them? One can only hope they just 'accept' with a child's innate innocence and grace. Perhaps an adult has a harder time with things outside their control. Their parents suffer greatly; I can only imagine. Today I find it difficult to laught and relax, but I will try: "If you can laugh at it you can survive it'---Bill Cosby Change is inevitable. Stress need not be... Be well! SpaZnurse