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Do these episodes sound like Simple Partial to you?
Wed, 03/01/2006 - 23:19Topic: Epilepsy.com Help
Example: Right before I got out of bed this morning just my legs start shaking, but not the rest of me. 5 seconds. Then the next one is the top half of me, 5 seconds or so, stops.
Thruout the morning I have a few times where I feel pressure and an "electric current" in my head which lasts for a few seconds, then stops. During this time I freeze with whatever I'm doing - fully conscious thru all this stuff. Now does this sound familiar to anyone? What medicine do you take? I'm taking Tegretol for this particular problem right now.
I have been waiting since January to see a epilepsy specialist and from the looks of it I won't get seen until May. My current neuro is prescribing the Tegretol. (I'm seeing him for dystonia.)
Thanks for any input you can give me. I really appreciate it.
Elsea
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Re: Re: Do these episodes sound like Simple Partial to you?
Submitted by elsea on Thu, 2006-03-02 - 20:51
Thanks for your response. That's a good way to put "on standby". I feel like I'm on freeze frame on a VCR.
Regarding legs - my right hip is like that but after years of exercising I threw out the lift in my shoe (3/8" lift). The yoga had corrected the discomfort.
Elsea
Re: Do these episodes sound like Simple Partial to you?
Submitted by missemmy on Thu, 2006-03-02 - 00:04
Finally...someone to relate to on the electic current running through the head feeling. I used to get that frequently, and it got alot better after starting on Lamictal, so I would say it is a simple partial. I used to get the electric current thing and it would last for a long time and keep me up at night at times. I still do the freeze whatever I am doing thing. It is like my brain turns itself on standby, (still conscious, but look spaced out.) It happened not long ago, and a pediatrician was standing nearby me at the hospital, and he started to stare at me as I was staring into nothing towards a newborn in the nursery, and I suddenly noticed it, and I said "what" to him, and he said "nothing, I just saw you staring at the baby with your mouth open like this", and he made a face of staring with mouth open. I blamed it on being early, which it was. It kinda makes me wonder what he was thinking. I am a student nurse, and I was there for my obstetrics clinical. I had a problem with my legs last year that progressed into a limp, but found out after going to a chiropractor( after getting an MRI and EMG that the neuro ordered) that an x-ray showed my hips were rotated , and one leg was shorter from another, and the chiropractor helped me alot. My legs were always the worst in the morning or anytime after sitting for very long.