Posted by badseed on February 13, 2005, at 23:44:32
In reply to Re: Topamax and MOODS, posted by Nixon on February 13, 2005, at 20:07:02
hi there! thanks for the reply
I had an very severe anaphactic reaction when i was 5 and then the seizures seemed to come after that. not that many but grand mal ones and they had an awful smell before them. i never went on anything, and as funny as it sounds, noone ever said ' oh you could be epileptic' so they just continued without anything and with everyone just kind of thinking it was weird these fits and then my last one was 18 (i'm 21 now). I also notice that most, but not all, my fits were after something stressful to me, like i got stoned and had a huge one,i had a puff of my inhalor, i got a tattoo and had one etc whenever i was under stress like having to go to the doctor etc but some were just random as well. recently - when i started having strange thiings happening in the night (head feeling like it was blown off and i can't adequately describe the sensation but it was horrible nonetheless) so i finally went to a neurologist ( i am scared of going to the doctor, phobia that developed after the shock) and they did an eeg which came back abnormal but that's all i know, so they put me on tegretol which i hated and then i moved to topamax.
You know, it's hard to diagnost a condition like epilepsy i have discovered. A neurologist has to go on the information you tell them, and so it's very strange, but i don't know of any other fitting disorder there is.
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