Posted by dreamer on December 9, 2001, at 18:56:34
In reply to Re: Sub. Epilepsy Questionnaire - Follow-up? » dreamer, posted by IsoM on December 8, 2001, at 23:37:59
> It's nice to know we're too complex to categorise. I always hated all those diagnostic categories - sometimes labeling someone is hindersome not helpful.
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> Yeah, I know what you mean about 'all sorts of other weird little things'. I learned to keep my mouth shut about such things as others looked strangely at me. I wasn't being branded by them, they just had no clue what I was talking about.
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> And yes, my tongue frequently itches! And the insides of my ear & not just the ear canal - deep inside where I can't touch it. I have to wildly try to scratch my tongue against my teeth. Something I found others didn't have either.
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> Cutting out clothes tags when you're clumsy can be a problem. I frequently ended up cutting a hole into the garment by mistake. Now I just hand them to my son to do.
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> I've been checking the internet for a while tonight & have found some stuff about all this under temporal lobe epilepsy. I was looking at the list of drugs they talked about & a couple of them were the drugs a neurologist had offered to put me on years ago for migraines. I declined then & would still do so. Yes, I'd love to have some of the symptoms gone alright, but since I've been feeling happy & stable on my current meds, I'm afraid to introduce anything else that's not absolutely necessary. Who knows how everything would react? Instead, I'll simply educate myself more about TLE & see if things change in the future.
It sounds like you're just sitting tight with what you have too, am I correct? Oh well, far better this than some other things, hey?Sitting , often pacing .Socially it is difficult I'm beginning to stutter and have to pop a benzo just to use the phone.
Let me know how things go , I see my doc next week it seems kinda futile and he's not too well mentally either.dreamerx
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