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Word recovery and speach
Fri, 05/18/2007 - 20:37Comments
Re: Word recovery and speach
Submitted by tonialpha on Wed, 2009-11-18 - 15:45
I think everyone has explained it perfectly! It took me 15 years before I went to a doctor or take medications, I had trouble w/ word and speech pre-ictal , ictal or post-ictal . When I took medication my word recovery and speech and the duration was definitely shorter.
When I was in college I had deja-vu seizures alot. Whenever my family would drive in certain areas. The deja-vu would go! That started in my late teens to early 30's. My auras changed my old auras, stayed, too.
I think everyone has explained it perfectly! It took me 15 years before I went to a doctor or take medications, I had trouble w/ word and speech pre-ictal , ictal or post-ictal . When I took medication my word recovery and speech and the duration was definitely shorter.
When I was in college I had deja-vu seizures alot. Whenever my family would drive in certain areas. The deja-vu would go! That started in my late teens to early 30's. My auras changed my old auras, stayed, too.
Re: Word recovery and speech
Submitted by kdiamondidis on Wed, 2009-11-18 - 14:51
At first, I thought it was the Topamax, but I went off it for awhile and still had the problem. I believe it is actually an effect of the epilepsy. I joined Mensa when I was 21, but didn't develop epilepsy until age 30. The word-finding difficulty makes me feel like an imbecile when I cannot carry on a simple conversation because I can't find the right word. And I also do the rambling-on thing when I talk. It has also affected my memory. There are chunks of time that have completely escaped me - my family will talk about something that happened several years ago and I don't have any recollection of it whatsoever. Sadly, it includes parts of my children's lives. And sometimes I can't remember how to write a letter in cursive or how to spell, even though spelling was always my forte.