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New and Need Advise Please

Mon, 08/07/2006 - 20:05
I have experienced these "episodes" every once in awhile. I thought it was due to stress or something. I do take Effexor for low serotonin levels. And I was prescribed Topomax 100mg for migrains. Now.. yesterday I had about 10 "episodes" one almost every hour. I tried to look at the time. I looked on the internet because last time I ran to the ER about my "Episodes" and explained what they were. I felt crazy and cried. The doctors put an EKG monitor on me and did a test and said that everytime I sat up my blood pressure dropped and I would tell the Nurse I am about to have an Episode. Because I would feel my neck tingle and the feeling of deja vu would come over me. IT WAS so WEIRD. Like I had dreamed the exact same thing and was seeing it all over and my body was freaking out but my mind wasn't. Cause I couldn't help my legs feeling weak and IT had to be quite around me or it would freak me out during the "Episode" But I would stay awake during the whole 2 minutes. I would start to get this euphoric feeling, fear, anger, and other sensations all at one time. Then I would break out in a sweat in the end. And "Phoof" gone. It hadn't happend in a long time so I didn't think anything about it. But yesterday it happened when it was just me and my 6 year old daughter. I was scared for her. Now I am scared for me and her. I looked up my description of my "Episodes" on the internet and the one that was closest to home was Temporal lobe epilepsy. But how do I tell my doctor? What if it is stress? Is it? Am I crazy? I have been taken both of my current meds for a while now, so it isn't like I am taking new medicine. Any and all advice is welcome. No one in my family has epilepsy.( not that I am aware of) Thank you Linda

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Re: New and Need Advise Please

Submitted by hayley on Tue, 2006-08-08 - 03:39
Hi Linda I can appreciate your fears ( NO YOUR NOT CRAZY) Go back to your doctor and ask can some tests be perfomed for eg, an EEG, Stress can trigger seizures and nobody in your family needs to be epileptic in order for you to. Personally i would go back to see my doctor and this time tell him of your fears also for yourself and your daughter Im not much help but wish you luck Hayley

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