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Speech Disturbances

Sun, 03/18/2018 - 14:05
Hello, I'm new here.. Basically, im 27, i had a grand-mal seizure when i was 4 and was diagnosed with TLE, i had no futher grand mals but when i was 8 i began have absence seizures and i was told I had MTS (Mesial Temporal Sclerosis/Hippocampal Sclerosis) and PNES (Psycogenic non-epileptic seizures) but the TLE had resolved itself. The dr said that MTS may affect me as i get older but he didn't really know in what way. fast forward to aged 17 and i started in anti-depressants - it started off my seizures again, absence seizures with postictal speech loss, unable to move down one side, excessive salivating... I began having 5 or 6 a day and was taken off the tablets, they stopped eventually and i was again seizure free until 23. Aged 23 - I had the worst headache, like i was hit with a sledgehammer, all of a sudden i lost all sense of feeling down one side, like a normal seizure for me but worse. Dr's thought i had had a TIA (mini stroke), i didn't. It took me about 2 weeks for my mobility to return properly and my speech never fully returned. It is far worse during menstruation, i am virtually unable to speak at all during it and doctors cannot find a cause for it. Does anyone else have this problem? It is so upsetting and embarrassing. It causes severe depression and makes me want to hide away from the world. Thanks in advance.

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