First Neuro Appt

[agperryman04]

Soooooooo....

First let me start by saying "thank you" to everyone here! I am so appreciative of your "open arms", advice, and support...

So I don't even have to tell you guys about the neurologist exam... it was typical... tap your finger to my finger, then to your nose... follow my finger... clap your hands... walk in a line... blah blah blah... with some of that I was kind of off balance...

We went through the whole incident and then she was asking me how I was feeling now. I told her how I still felt very fuzzy and tired... i feel off balanced... riding in a car is horrendous as the movement makes me feel sick... i can't remember details of things over the past few days...

She said that she thinks I am having auras.... over and over and over...

I have an EEG scheduled for Thursday and she also wants me to do a glucose tolerance test.

She asked me if wanted her to go ahead and put me on something to make the auras kind of stop, ie Lamictal or something else... I opted not to start any medication until I get the results from all the tests. She said that was fine, of course no driving, climbing or swimming... and she gave me some meclazine, thank God, for the vertigo feeling.

So all in all I guess it was a good visit...

I am trying to make heads or tails out of what she said about having the "auras" without the seizures... man that's gotta stop, cause it feels awful!

Any advice on this would be most welcomed! Thanks you guys!

[Nakamova]

I felt pretty knocked out after my first seizures, and I did feel fuzzy and off-balance as well too -- although it was probably made worse by the Dilantin I was given. Since you're not on meds right now, it's possible that your neurologist's on the right track about the auras.

Auras can be pre-cursors to tonic-clonic seizures, but if they don't progress, then they are classified as simple partial seizures. Simple partials include a wide variety of symptoms, usually some kind of sensory disturbance like flashing lights or nausea or strange sounds or smells. And they could tire you out if you were having them over and over. So you could be having simple partials, although what you describe also sounds a bit like absence seizures. Absence seizures involve tiny momentary lapses of consciousness -- a kind of spacing out. Immediately after an absence seizure, the person will resume whatever they were doing prior, with some confusion, and no memory of being "absent".

Hopefully you'll get more answers to what's going on after the EEG. Are you taking anything at all right now? In general a B Vitamin complex can help, and other nutrients like magnesium can be good too.

[RobinN]

Magnesium was a life saver for me, when I had migraines with aura. I also just recently had a problem after eating at a Chinese Restaurant. I am sure the 4 days of feeling ill was due to eating food with MSG. My daughter also fell ill, and proceeded to have a seizure. I had headache, brain fog, muscle aches, and over all feeling very bad.

I believe that when our body is pushed to its limit, stress, lack of sleep etc, it will push the most vulnerable over the edge. Then it takes determination and discipline to heal the body enough to put a finger back in that dam, and build it stronger so that the body does not have to release in the form of a seizure. That is my opinion however. Though you might want to do some research on kindling.