Posted by headachequeen on November 5, 2004, at 17:28:19
In reply to Re: screwed up meds?, posted by rainy on November 5, 2004, at 13:22:29
> wow. You'd been feeling so bleary for several days before the seizure something must have been brewing up a storm.
>>The new neurologist had asked if I ever noticed or felt an aura before the seizures I had ... aura?? what aura???well, the tech doing one of the EEGs the day after I was admitted was talking to me as she attached all the electrodes to my scalp and face and when I described that bleary feeling she asked if it felt like living and walking in a dream... and then told me that was an aura that warned of a seizure...
so now I know what the aura is...
next time it happens I am fastening my seatbelt!!!
> If you feel like it, tell us if the lack of potassium was a major factor in your seizure, or were your meds screwed up or do they even know?>> The potassium played no part in it at all, but the doctors and pharmacist were concerned that I had none in my system... and thanks to Irene I understand why now.
The meds were screwed up and I was actually in a toxic level of tegretol because I had been taking aspirin for the pain in my head... it didn't help but aspirin intensifies the tegretol dose...
as does a med that I am taking for blood pressure... in fact the pharmacist told me that they use it to cut down on expensive drugs used for transplant patients because it doubles the effect so reduces the amount of the expensive drugs needed and I am on 140 mg a day of this stuff... what with the aspirin I tried to kill the pain (tylenol and that sort of stuff had not worked) and the aspirin I take each day for stroke prevention along with 140 mg of Tiazac each day, the tegretol I was taking was more than doubled so I was in toxic levels which didn't help at all...Add to that and I think it is the old <sigh> redhead thing, I have a peculiar form of epilepsy...
turns out that the breakdown and a lot of the depression they have been trying to treat over the years were not actually that at all, although it was helpful in that it helped me deal with issues from childhood that needed to be dealt with, but are symptoms of the epilepsy; this form according to the doctor who tried to explain it to me today, does all sorts of things that are not necessarily seizures and can be very confusing to deal with...
trust me to do that... I never get it right or simple...
They tell me it will take two months to recover from this and that there will be seizures in that time until they get the meds properly balanced...
so until then it is a matter of blood tests and back to the clinic for assessment and more EEGs and so on, and the sleep clinic and heaven knows what...
but I never want to go through that again...and in the book of rules... yes I have rules to follow now... it tells me that these seizures seldom last more than a few seconds ...
HAH!
>And very good luck with these new ones!
> rainy
Thanks, rainy, I do appreciate it...
kat
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