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headaches and confusion!
Sat, 04/15/2006 - 06:44Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
Hi there
I am on 2 types of medication as of today - keppra and tegretol
I was on the above as well as lamictal and frisium. just finished yesterday.
I get a lot of head aches from time to time, can last from the moment I get up in the morning until that night! Is this normal?
When I get warnings or auras, I get confused as well as go numb in my right arm.
I cant think straight or clearly for seconds or minutes, varies every time. But when I do get a warning, and if my partner is talking to me, he doesn't always know when I have had a warning or just had one now and then. And when this happens, he can get frustrated with me if asking me something at the time and I cannot respond to normal thinking level. I can always understand him, but not understand why i did such and such or why I cant answer him back properly. I then get frustrated and upset and feel stupid.
I'm a bit upset at the moment because I ended up getting cross with him earlier because he got couldn't un derstand why I hadn't done such and such this morning, and leaving half a brain a side and prioritising etc. I wont go into the details but the point is I was confused, I could understand why he was annoyed, but he could not see that this might have been because of having warnings which upset me. I felt stupid and small.
Does anyone else have this problem where they are confused and cant think clearly anymore?
Comments
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Submitted by david morrison on Fri, 2006-05-12 - 14:37
yah good on you mate
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Submitted by seizuregirl on Fri, 2006-05-12 - 14:55
Hey congrats, Mr. Model Employee!!! ha ha ha Yeah, u sure showed them, huh? ;-) I'll be going back to that wonderful place called work pretty soon...well...in a few days that is. Been on a very extended vacation. LOL
Seizuregirl
"Life is what you make of it"
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Submitted by andy m on Fri, 2006-05-12 - 12:03
Hi there, When I got the job that I am still in now 10 years ago I had a szr during my interview after lying on my application form and i still got the job and consequently made the mistake of thinking that I 'owed' them, and therefore worked far harder and longer shifts and more overtime than anyone else because i felt as if I had to prove my worth. I know you're thinking i was stupid to do this to the possible detriment of my health but i got into this mind set that they could drop me anytime they wanted. When my szrs became controlled 3 years ago I still felt the same to a extent but my employers made the mistake of taking me for granted by putting me down for overtime before i had said yes, although I would have if asked, I felt this was overstepping the mark and since then I have never done any extra hours for them and now they come begging to me to do extra when a so called 'ordinary' colleague decides to have a night out and rings in 'sick'. It gives me a certain perverse pleasure that i am now considered a model employee and that the other are told that they should be working to my standards. It's not very often we get a chance to feel good about ourselves so that gave me a heck of a boost but I'm still not doing the overtime, I'm too busy living my life how i want to. Andy