Posted by headachequeen on June 27, 2005, at 16:11:07
In reply to Re: Incentives for meds and Amineptine » iris2, posted by ed_uk on June 25, 2005, at 15:48:12
> Hi Irene,
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> Since 'normal' ADs seems to make your IC symptoms worse, I thought it might be useful to try a non-classical AD such as Lamictal.
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> Kind regards
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> ~EdOh, brother!
I have been reading the recent posts and now I am really wondering about all this...
if Lamictal is an AD, why on earth would this neurologist suggest it might be an answer for epileptic seizures???Some days I want to stop the merry-go-round and get off to start again at a sensible pace...
I use many natural remedies and approaches to healing... after all, I am a Reiki practitioner and planning to become a Reiki master when I feel the time is right and I am ready for that step and I have been able to help others as well as myself using Reiki.
A fellow practioner, a Master actually, has also studied aromatherapy and many other natural approaches to healing as well as the negative aspects of certain aromas, oils, herbs, foods and so on...
following the information she has provided, I have removed certain foods and other 'natural' not chemical preparations from my life and found that it helps... staying away from that confounded juniper shrub that wanted to be a tree and is now eighteen feet high at the corner of the driveway helps a great deal LOL....
but I also realise that I cannot simply turn my back on conventional medicine; the alternative and conventional have to be used together...
thank heaven for a wonderful primary care physician who is leaving this area... and then what happens???at any rate, I will not know anything more about the lamictal for seizures until January so shall not worry about it, but I think back to last August and the sheer chaos that was my life following that 24-hour sleep-deprived eeg tele whatsis and then wonder about repeating the experience at the end of July...
I am really not looking forward to going through all that again...
nad what is the point when things can and likely will change by the time I see this chap in January...we are supposed to have such a great medical system in this country, but he wants everything to fit between the lines and cannot understand, as my reg doctor does and the other doctors who treat my weird combination of redhead symptoms, that not everyone fits in the lines..
some children are free spirits; others have not yet developed their fine motor skills enough to stay within the lines. Besides, it is always better to let a child express himself on a blank sheet of paper than try to make him colour the picture that you present in the colouring book...
I am the child who cannot stay within the lines...
and he does not want to understand that there is something that is not straightforward about this
nonsense.
So as of today, on my own dr's advice, it is back to the regular dosage of topomax, ditch the clobazam which makes me ill and groggy and sort of dopey, and back to taking control of my life...
I have not been taking the clobazam for quite a while anyway...I am also going to look into more reiki and alternative options to enhance the medications..
not to replace them....and then look forward to the mri and ct scan for my spine and leg...
does it ever end...
kat
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