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headaches and confusion!
Sat, 04/15/2006 - 06:44Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
Hi there
I am on 2 types of medication as of today - keppra and tegretol
I was on the above as well as lamictal and frisium. just finished yesterday.
I get a lot of head aches from time to time, can last from the moment I get up in the morning until that night! Is this normal?
When I get warnings or auras, I get confused as well as go numb in my right arm.
I cant think straight or clearly for seconds or minutes, varies every time. But when I do get a warning, and if my partner is talking to me, he doesn't always know when I have had a warning or just had one now and then. And when this happens, he can get frustrated with me if asking me something at the time and I cannot respond to normal thinking level. I can always understand him, but not understand why i did such and such or why I cant answer him back properly. I then get frustrated and upset and feel stupid.
I'm a bit upset at the moment because I ended up getting cross with him earlier because he got couldn't un derstand why I hadn't done such and such this morning, and leaving half a brain a side and prioritising etc. I wont go into the details but the point is I was confused, I could understand why he was annoyed, but he could not see that this might have been because of having warnings which upset me. I felt stupid and small.
Does anyone else have this problem where they are confused and cant think clearly anymore?
Comments
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: headaches and confusion!
Submitted by Ramblinman on Mon, 2006-05-08 - 07:41
I feel like a burden all the time cause the siezures have slowed me down so much. I keep forgeting things I have learned, I forget the words I want to use, I can't think clearly, all that stuff that goes with Ep. So far the only one complaiing is me though. I keep wondering when they are going to realize that I am only at 50 percent of what I should be.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: headaches and confusion!
Submitted by seizuregirl on Mon, 2006-05-08 - 09:22
Hey again....ur not the only one who complains. I always seem to find myself at a point where I don't want to be. I don't like being "weak" in every angle. There are times when I would be crying to God "why me? it's not fair" and other times where I would be fighting with family 'coz they don't understand. I tell you it's a headache.
But ,then again...there's this little light at the end of the tunnel that shows that my life doesn't have to be this way. If I could just shut out the negative and focus on the positive (as in I could have had something worse than seizures) then maybe my life wouldn't be so complicated as I make it seem.
Lord! do u hear the violins playing in the background? LOL I'll stop it here before I get too gushy and make a fool of myself.
Seizuregirl
"Life is what you make of it"
Re: Re: Re: Re: headaches and confusion!
Submitted by seizuregirl on Sun, 2006-05-07 - 20:35
Hey Ramblinman...wish I could "fake" my way through it myself, but there's not really much place I can go to be alone while a seizure pass. Our hallway is small and it's always crowded. Anyway, everyone at my job already iknows of my seizures. Believe it or not, but the parents of my students were very understanding of it. Tell me...did you ever feel like a "burden" to your company when a seizure hits you? I feel that way sometimes. When I stop a whole class because I get a seizure just makes me feel that if I wasn't there that day then the class would have ran smoothly. I tell you being a seizure patient sucks 'coz all these negative thoughts runs through your mind and your self-esteem lowers because of it. I feel like I'm going in circles sometimes. Seizuregirl "Life is what you make of it"