Do I really have SZ's?

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Ok so my entire life ive had this thing i called "The sickness". It's this thing that has happened through out the years with no pattern. I saw doctors about it all the time growing up, but they never knew what it was. But a few months ago i had it and the doctor diagnosed it as SZ's and perscribed me 500MGs of keppra. I looked up the side effects and i never took it because of that. This sickness only happens, maybe, twice a year and i dont think its worth it for that. But now on to my real question. I want to go into detail about it and see if its the same as what you go through. It starts with the feeling of my stomach dropping. Then my body feels cold, and a few minutes later i become dead tired. If i go to sleep i will sleep between 20-30 minutes and wake up feeling fine(i cant sleep any more than that). For the next hour or two ill be fine, but then it will happen again. It happens all day when it does happen. But when i actually go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning ill be fine and good for another year usually. But it has lasted for two days, i want to say, twice in the 30 years. And if i dont go to sleep i will percieve everything fine and to me i talk normal, but i guess for the next 5-10 minutes ill will speak gibberish. I can still work and do everything else fine, i guess i just cant talk. After the time is up i instantly feel better and im normal until it happens again. Which brings me here. After reading all the side effects I just never took the medicine. I question if its really SZ's because i feel like if it was i think i would have had more than one SZ over the last 30 years of this happening. And honestly i know doctors are doctors and what ever, but since i moved to Alabama from New England i just dont trust them. I legit know a doctor here who is a meth head with 5 other nurses who do it with him. And he works at the same place i was diagnosed at. I just find it hard to believe that all the big time doctors up north couldnt figure out what it was for 20 years, but these guys could day one. I think its just them being lazy, like everyone else is here in this state. And i dont want to suffer from the side effects of this medicine if its not really the case. And if it really is SZ's, can i just take one of the pills when i feel sick to cure it? With all the side effects it just doesnt seem worth it to take it daily for something that only happens once a year.

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Maybe,but some seizure meds

Submitted by j.ferrucci on Mon, 2017-04-10 - 16:08

Maybe,but some seizure meds take time to build up in the system. I'm on 1,200mg of Lamotragine and 300mg of Phenotoin Sodium every day.

"The sickness" as you called

Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2017-04-10 - 18:04

"The sickness" as you called it could very well be seizures. Could be partial seizuresi become dead tired. If they are seizures you would be tired because of the drain of energy a seizure usesAs for you only having these a few times. Well these are the only seizures you know of that you are questioning. Has anybody ever thought you were day dreaming but you didn't? I was written up for day dreaming in class. Those day dreams were absence or focal seizures. I could set at my desk and talk on the phone and work but if I needed to type with both hands I was screwed if I had a focal seizure since it affects my right hand only. It feels weird or numb for a few seconds but it took minutes for me to gain complete control of it again.Any and all medications have their side effects. which also means the ones you buy over the country. Have you ever looked at them or just taken your doctors word for them? Mom took aspirin yours probably does too. But aspirin has killed some people.. A ingredient in sugar free sodas can cause seizures. Which is why I do not drink sugar free drinks. If you get a side effect they are generally gone in the first few weeks of starting th medication. The reason is because your body is building up the therapeutic levels in your body. Those levels are there to keep you from having a seizure if yo take a dose late or miss one.Keppra has become the go to medication for seizure control. I have been using it for many years now. Those minutes in that focal seizure is nor seconds and nobody knows I have them. Keppra is the best medication I have ever used to control seizures.As for taking one when you feel the seizure coming on. Nope if you feel it coming on the electrical impulse has already hit.What starts a seizure is an electrical impulse hitting wrong in your brain causing a chain reaction. Medications are created to stop those impulses from hitting wrong.

The only thing i have is what

Submitted by Just a simple question on Mon, 2017-04-10 - 22:45

The only thing i have is what i talked about. I was researching if anyone one else had a similar issues so i could confirm it is what the doctor says, which is what brought me here. I actually read a reply from you similar to what you were just telling me, which is what made me make an account on this website. I cant find anything supporting what i have is SZ's other than "it can be a lot of things". Like what you said, the only thing i get is what i discribed. I was a good student growing up who had 0 issues in school. I mean the once in a while it happened in school my teacher would complain to me that i need to sleep more(they thought it was just me being tired) but thats all.Also i didnt see a doctor, i was brought into a hospital where they diagnosed me and gave me a non-refillable perscription. They didnt do any test, nothing. They just assumed thats what it is. And told me to see a nuerologist. Thing is, i dont have insurance or a PCD so thats kind of hard for me. So the medicine they gave me wouldn't really help me anyway then huh? By the time it started working i would run out.One of the reasons im hesitant is because my last doctors appointment up north told me it might be diabetes. Normally i dont eat on these days because im too sick, but the time before this doctors appointment i ate something and i was no longer sick, which made me question it and make the appointment. Although ive tried since with no results and i had eaten before that and was still sick, and since on days i was sick i usually didnt eat and woke up fine the next day i figured it couldnt be that. But i moved before it happened again to see. So that was never fully examined. When i did see a doctor about it down south when i first moved, i had to wait in the room for an hour and a half before they saw me. And when they did was right after i woke up and was feeling fine. And even though i said "wait, at most, an hour and ill feel bad again for you to test me.", she just tested me right there and said nothing was wrong and told me to leave. This was the point where i gave up on doctors down here.I was thinking about trying again(after the doctor told me it was SZ's), but it doesn't really motivate me to find a result after doing research. I read that if you get diagnosed you lose your license and your job and gain disability. I dont want to be stuck on that shit. I want to make money to better my life. Not be forced into some low income trailer with nothing because of something that only happens once a year. Thats what brought me here. I was hoping the medicine would work like i asked. They gave me 60 to last a month. If it worked as i wanted it to it could have lasted me 60 years. Im just really lost on what to do. Not to mention i forget about it a lot since it rarely happens. Like the only reason i looked it up today was because its happening. And ill probably think about it a little tomorrow, but after that i will probably forget about it for another year.