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Looking for some insite new symptoms.new fears

Tue, 02/10/2004 - 21:18
Now that I have finaly found a Dr. who could tell me after 17 years of stearing off into space and a few other symtoms that I am having seizures, I wish I had keept my mouth shut. I have been on the Topamax for almost three months now and feel a little better, but am getting scared. now other things are happening that i cannot explain.Hoping sombody can give me some insite.about two weeks ago I started having these eppisodes where i get this sick feeling then i start to shake and get scared and cry I feel like I can't breathe and I (it's hard to explain) Feel like I don't know where I am or what is going on like I (god I wish I could explain it ). this has been happening 2 to 4 times a day about 3 to 4 times a week for the past two weeks. and then on morning my husband called me from work and asked me what the hell I was doing in bed that night I was like what are you talking about. He said I sat up in bed and staired off for a few seconds with a look on my face like i had just seen a gost then laid back down and my body was shaking and i was clicking my teeth together, he said he tried to wake me up but couldn't and then after about a minute or so i just stopped I do know that that morning my mouth was sore and i had noticed that I bit the inside of my cheeke but untill he had told me what i was doing I thought nothing about it. I am getting very scared, I did tell my family Dr. about the daily episodes and he has put me on Klonipin but i have yet to start taking it i fear that now i will just be put on all these drugs and that bothers me. Do any of these symptoms mean anything to anybody? please help I know I need to talk to my nero. about this but it hekps to talk to others who deal with seizures and understand what I am feeling.

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RE: Looking for some insite new symptoms.new fears

Submitted by picnupthepcs on Tue, 2004-02-10 - 21:18
Thank you all for you input and information in the mater i have brought forth. it has been very helpfull.I am going to see my neurologist tomorrow and hopin he will do something to help me out here., I also have been given the name of anothe neurologist who come highly recomended in my area and have mad an appt. to see him for a second opinion. so maybe I can at least find out if there really is a proble because therer is so much confussion as to what it really happening to me me right now and the Dr. I am seeing now really doesn't seem to want to look more into what is going on. So I will keep you all posted thanks again,Cindy

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