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My auras prevent me from sleeping, anyone else?

Wed, 06/17/2015 - 01:04

Hey everyone,

I'm new here and I wanted to see if anyone has the same problem. The past few nights I've been having trouble going to sleep because I keep experiencing auras. My feet and hands get cold and sweaty, and my heart starts to race. About a week, week and a half ago, I upped my dose from 100 mg in the morning and at night to 200 mg at the same times. I take generic Lamictal, which has treated me pretty good the past few years with no side effects. Ever since I started taking 400 mg a day, I've noticed my vision is different, I can't explain how, it's very unusual. My memory is also shot and I'm still getting auras. I started having seizures in 2010, a total of 3. My first was in March and then two back to back in Oct/Nov. Went four years without until they came back this year, hitting about every two months. It hasn't even been a month since my last seizure though, and the entire time since then I've been having a bunch of auras so it's obviously getting worse.

The best way I can put it is that my medicine is working, but I feel like there's a seizure lurking behind it, waiting til my medicine runs out. The only time I feel normal, funny enough, is when I'm watching a show or playing a game. It gets especially bad when I try to sleep and even worse when I leave my house.

Does anyone have tips or actions they take when auras are really persistent? Thanks!

Comments

The thing to do is contact

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2015-06-17 - 17:32
The thing to do is contact your neurologist and discuss this with him The increased dosage may be too much medication. Too much medication is just as bad as too little. The dosages can be cut in half and if needed it can be increased to what you are taking now.  I had a problem a few years ago and that is what oc and I did. We reduced it and the next month raised it to where we wantes it and things worked out well. As Dee posted you might get the My Epilepsy Diary and use it. The note pad is there to list things on. You can then give your neurologist permission to bring it up and by doing that he can check all the graphs and other data which can help him with medications dosages and other procedures that can help get yu seizure free..

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