Posted by poser938 on May 25, 2014, at 22:32:08
In reply to Re: Marketing of Madness » poser938, posted by Phillipa on May 25, 2014, at 21:56:51
Yeah.
it honestly wasnt a bad experience for me. i dont remember the beginning of it. my parents just said i had started "talking out of my head" one day. and i had a fever as well as a swollen lymph node under my arm, which i had seen the doctor a few days before about it. he decided if wasnt best to prescribe an antibiotic. but my parents took me to the ER, and from there an ambhlance took me to Childrens Hospital. and on the way there i had a seizure, my only one ever. once we got to the hospital they Dr's did a spinal tap, my parents told me i was screaming when they did it. Then not much later i was in a cima that lasted 5 days. my family was told they would know within 5 days if i would make it or not.i dont remember waking from the coma. but when i did, all i could do was lay there and drool on myself. my body was so weak. Couldnt even talk clearly at all. but i was in a good mood the whole time, except for it got boring at the hospital since i stayed there about 2 more weeks. they did more brain scans, blood tests and physical therapy until i was finally well enough to go home. and after that i was just a normal teen, until i decided to try psych meds for what i know now as just very mild mood problems. at this point my whole life was changed. psychiatric meds have taken away my life that i used to live.
and you mentioned on here some weeks ago that possibly, maybe there could be a lingering low grade infection that stuck with me. well, i had asked a psychiatrist about it when i was an inpatient for 3 days at the beginning of May. and he said if thete was then it would have shown up in the blood tests ive had since then. so i suppose that means no infection left over.
buut he, along with a few other psychiatrists have told me that an insult to the brain such as Encephalitis can cause the brain to react much differently to psychiatric meds, with more severe side effects.
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