Meds, Disability, Side effects and sudden weight loss.

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Hi everyone,

I'm taking Limictal, Depikote, Onfi. Past 3-4 months I've suddenly lost about 30lb. Now the meds were great first 2 years, I got my liscense back and everything, so of course finally I could get a job anywhere I want and so I did as SO and my job was driving and protecting the neighborhood. As I started working I started feeling weird randomly (ouras?) Then after month 1/2 I got fired. (still not sure why) After a week I got my 1st seizure again but this time it was only 10 sec. or so. I've never had that before and the feeling I get afterwards is heavy (panic, paranoia, depression + for 24hrs). Now I was also wondering if Im able to get disability since this is every 2 days (about) and 2x a day. Also how would I?

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neurotalk forums have a

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2014-08-24 - 19:01

neurotalk forums have a social security disability forum, it sounds like an involved process but it might help you understand some background to read what they've got there and note that it can take years, best to make sure you are working closely with your doctors as you were controlled recently... see it at http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum28.html

You said you got a job. You

Submitted by just_joe on Sun, 2014-08-24 - 22:11

You said you got a job. You had been without a seizure for a period of time. A questions you would be asked would be where have you worked and for how long. I tend to wonder why you want to go on disability since there are jobs that need workers. What was your profession?? Have to been trained for any other jobs? What kind of work are you looking for? Without knowing the type of seizure you had I can say it can be overcome. Those Auras are basically seizures themselves. If your seizure was only 10 seconds long then you need to start learning more about the kind of seizures you might have. The only seizures I had were absence seizures (petite mal) I also had a grand mal (todays tonic clonic) and I also had focal motor seizures. Those would generalize and when they did I went into a convulsion which liiked like a grand mal seizure. SO I know I had those seizures but I have only had the 1 grand mal seizure. At times I have a partial seizure. My focal seizures could also be looked at as a simple partial seizure. I have worked most of my life. I retired a few years ago. There are people out there that do have problems and do need assistance. But having a seizure now and then does not mean you can't work. It does not mean you can't produce. Wanting to not work and not give of yourself to others around you means you are basically using epilepsy to get money and not working to get yourself off the couch. The professions I loved I couldn't work in anymore. I went to another profession. Becomming a warehouse worker I learned enough to become the warehouse manager. I too that information into another profession which was telemarketing. I used that information and went into outside sales. I used that infornation and became a office and warehouse manager. A friend of mine and I bought the branch so I became a part owner. All of those jobs were done when I was having1-2 seizures a week or 2-4 seizures a month. My seizures were 2-5 minutes long. The time to focus was an dditional 15-45 minutes. I knew when I had a seizure. I also knew what to do if I had a seizure and I was to discussing something with a custiomer later. It takes time to learn how to manage your time and how to manage and control your epilepsy. I would say discuss this issue with your neuro since at one time you had been seizure free. The weight loss could have increased the amount of medication in your system. Ask him what type of seizures yo ucan have and what type of epilepsy you have. What would you think if a person that was diagnosed with diabeties wanted to go on disability because he getrs dizzy now and then and he has to test his sugar levels daily? You ned to understand that even tho you have a disability yo ucan still do what everybody else can do.

You said you got a job.  You had been without a seizure for a period of time. A questions you would be asked  would be where have you worked and for how long. I tend to wonder why you want to go on disability since there are jobs that need workers. What was your profession?? Have to been trained for any other jobs? What kind of work are you looking for? Without knowing the type of seizure you had I can say it can be overcome. Those Auras are basically seizures themselves. If your seizure was only 10 seconds long then you need to start learning more about the kind of seizures you might have. The only seizures I had were absence seizures (petite mal) I also had a grand mal (todays tonic clonic) and I also had focal motor seizures. Those would generalize and when they did I went into a convulsion which liiked like a grand mal seizure. SO I know I had those seizures but I have only had the 1 grand mal seizure. At times I have a partial seizure. My focal seizures could also be looked at as a simple partial seizure. I have worked most of my life. I retired a few years ago. There are people out there that do have problems and do need assistance. But having a seizure now and then does not mean you can't work. It does not mean you can't produce. Wanting to not work and not give of yourself to others around you means you are basically using epilepsy to get money and not working to get yourself off the couch. The professions I loved I couldn't work in anymore. I went to another profession. Becomming a warehouse worker I learned enough to become the warehouse manager. I too that information into another profession which was telemarketing. I used that information and went into outside sales. I used that infornation and became a office and warehouse manager. A friend of mine and I bought the branch so I became a part owner. All of those jobs were done when I was having1-2 seizures a week or 2-4 seizures a month. My seizures were 2-5 minutes long. The time to focus was an dditional 15-45 minutes. I knew when I had a seizure. I also knew what to do if I had a seizure and I was to discussing something with a custiomer later. It takes time to learn how to manage your time and how to manage and control your epilepsy. I would say discuss this issue with your neuro since at one time you had been seizure free. The weight loss could have increased the amount of medication in your system. Ask him what type of seizures yo ucan have and what type of epilepsy you have. What would you think if a person that was diagnosed with diabeties  wanted to go on disability because he getrs dizzy now and then and he has to test his sugar levels daily? You ned to understand that even tho you have a disability yo ucan still do what everybody else can do.

You said you got a job. You had been without a seizure for a period of time. A questions you would be asked would be where have you worked and for how long. I tend to wonder why you want to go on disability since there are jobs that need workers. What was your profession?? Have to been trained for any other jobs? What kind of work are you looking for? Without knowing the type of seizure you had I can say it can be overcome. Those Auras are basically seizures themselves. If your seizure was only 10 seconds long then you need to start learning more about the kind of seizures you might have. The only seizures I had were absence seizures (petite mal) I also had a grand mal (todays tonic clonic) and I also had focal motor seizures. Those would generalize and when they did I went into a convulsion which liiked like a grand mal seizure. SO I know I had those seizures but I have only had the 1 grand mal seizure. At times I have a partial seizure. My focal seizures could also be looked at as a simple partial seizure. I have worked most of my life. I retired a few years ago. There are people out there that do have problems and do need assistance. But having a seizure now and then does not mean you can't work. It does not mean you can't produce. Wanting to not work and not give of yourself to others around you means you are basically using epilepsy to get money and not working to get yourself off the couch. The professions I loved I couldn't work in anymore. I went to another profession. Becomming a warehouse worker I learned enough to become the warehouse manager. I too that information into another profession which was telemarketing. I used that information and went into outside sales. I used that infornation and became a office and warehouse manager. A friend of mine and I bought the branch so I became a part owner. All of those jobs were done when I was having1-2 seizures a week or 2-4 seizures a month. My seizures were 2-5 minutes long. The time to focus was an dditional 15-45 minutes. I knew when I had a seizure. I also knew what to do if I had a seizure and I was to discussing something with a custiomer later. It takes time to learn how to manage your time and how to manage and control your epilepsy. I would say discuss this issue with your neuro since at one time you had been seizure free. The weight loss could have increased the amount of medication in your system. Ask him what type of seizures yo ucan have and what type of epilepsy you have. What would you think if a person that was diagnosed with diabeties wanted to go on disability because he getrs dizzy now and then and he has to test his sugar levels daily? You ned to understand that even tho you have a disability yo ucan still do what everybody else can do.