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Fri, 07/13/2018 - 17:12
So for about six months I’ve been going through the most crazy things. I started passing out here and there and had had issues in the past with passing out but nothing ever came of it. Then I started forgetting my boyfriend when I would come to and the last six Years of my life would be a blank. It would take sometimes up to 30 minutes for all things to come back but I still would remember how I forgot or the things that happened while I had forgotten. I was hospitalized once clean CT, Clean 20 minute EEG. I was then taken by ambulance again clean CT. Sent to a neurologist and he said everything I have described over the years ie: spacing out and falling and forgetting along with throwing up and other things like migraines on my left side sounded like seizures. He sent me for another routine EEG but he put me on Depakote and I was already on another anti convulsant for bipolar disorder. Yesterday I went back because I have started having issues in my sleep. My boyfriend says I shake and drool and can not communicate for 1-3 minutes. And then I’m out of breathe but eventually calm down. We tried talking to the doctor and he said it seems I’m doing better because I’m not falling and I’ve only forgotten and Dow ed out a few times. He said I could challenge the theory if I wanted and cut my meds to half for a week and see what happens. But I really don’t want to do that as I feel the medication has helped but what’s up with the sleep stuff? I really feel overwhelmed and frustrated I can’t deive and that totally sucks he had me down for complex partial seizures to generalized seizures.....any words of wisdom or experience would be great or same situations???? Sorry so long!!!

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