Recent diagnosis

For many years I would have weird sensations to where I would feel "out of place". I could tell when they were starting as I would get strange sensations in my body. I could hear people talking to me, yet I really wasn't "with it" enough to respond to them. I couldn't remember what was said to me. Although I would see things that weren't really there, I couldn't remember what I would see/hear in my head or sometimes feel. In August of this year, I had a Grand Mal seizure. My daughter had slept in my bed that night and freaked out when I went into convulsions. I believe I have had them two times prior to this as I woke up in the AM and had bitten my lip and pulled the muscles in my left shoulder to the point that I could hardly move it for days. I was sent to a Neuro who put me on Lamictal. I was gradually put on 2 in the AM and 2 in the PM. I did well with that...until I pushed myself at work to hard. After a very long week, I had a day where I had those "weird" senasations over a dozen times within a 4 hour period. I was told that I had let the exhaustion get ahead of the meds and to go to bed and drink lots of fluids. The Neuro said they were complex partial seizures and he added Keppra in addition to the Lamictal. I took 250 miligrams twice a day for a week, then I was supposed to up it to a total of 1000 miligrams per day. Couldn't do it!!! Quit them cold turkey after a week. I would sleep 16 hours a day. Could barely stay awake to drive a 30 minute drive. Severely confused and a horrible memory loss. I feel like my Neuro was trying to kill me!!!!!!!!! Anyway, I am pretty new to this and just don't have people other than Docs to talk to about it :) By juliec at 12/25/2006 - 6:46pm | juliec's blog | Add New Comment