Posted by Ritch on January 30, 2002, at 0:54:54
In reply to Re: Mitch, why posts now say from Ritch? » Ritch, posted by Krazy Kat on January 29, 2002, at 12:29:07
> Mitch:
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> Certainly sounds manic. Aren't you just on Neurontin? What about adding Depakote back for awhile?
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> - KKHi KrazyKat,
Yes it does sound a little manic. I *have* added a little Trileptal (150mg) in the afternoons before I go to work and it has helped some. I am avoiding the Depakote (because of the munchies/weight gain/cognitive fuzziness). I haven't gotten hostile or anything which is a *good* sign. Really, it boils down to watching what antidepressants I take very carefully. If I avoid something that is destabilizing then it makes it a lot easier.
But, the TLE thing is entirely possible. My Mom had nocturnal generalized seizures. I talked to my brother a few weeks ago and he told me of a couple of occasions when he was a kid (40 years ago) where she had some seizures during the *daytime* and it scared my brother and he ran out of the house. He said my Mom made funny sounds and weird facial expressions. That seems to fit a complex partial seizure. My Mom tells me that she doesn't remember any of her seizures, but she thinks they only happened during sleep. From what my brother says, she had them during the day, too. I know she has told me that she feels *funny* before they happen (she gets some type of auras). She still takes some Dilantin now when she feels *funny*-being afraid she is going to have one.
Another weird thing is that she told me that when she had the grand mal nocturnal seizures she would have dreams about "flying". Well, I used to get these dreamy things involving flying around the neighborhood when I was a teenager, and that preceded my mood problems. Now you can see why I might feel a little supersitious.
The best way to explain it is that: I don't believe something false (like a delusion), it just seems that something ordinary takes on an increased *significance* that relates to a possible future event. I guess you could call it a "hypersignificancy" of sorts.Mitch
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