Posted by Ritch on April 3, 2002, at 0:45:51
In reply to Re: bipolar NOS? » JohnX2, posted by Ritch on April 2, 2002, at 21:41:22
John,
I just casually mentioned the gelastic epilepsy thing and the dexedrine. I saw something somewhere in my memory that made me think of it. But I just did some searching about and drug up a lot of creepy crap that sounds a lot like some of my symptoms. Most especially, some of the things relating to autonomic instability (blood pressure, basal temperature, heartrate, and GI symptoms) and the "flushing" and laughing response to Luvox. When the neuro I saw once mentioned something about frontal lobe problems-it was related to some gastrointestinal problems I was having with Prozac at the time. It felt like my esophagus (just below my ribcage) was "pushing out"-like I had a rod shoved through there to my spine-like my guts were all going to fly out if I didn't hold them in. I was also having some nightime "sub-hallucinations" on the Prozac. Here is some of the links I found that are freaking me out (what do you think?):
http://mentalhealth.com/fr30.html
http://www.epub.org.br/cm/n13/mente/laughter/page5.html
http://www.john-libbey-eurotext.fr/articles/epd/1/4/221-8/
http://www.geocities.com/hhugs2001/infoabouthh.htm
http://www.epilepsy.org/ctf/gelastic.html
http://murdoch.rch.unimelb.edu.au/pages/clinical/neurosciences/projects.html
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/issues/v159n17/ffull/ilt0999-5.html
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