AndrewIrish
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Hey all,
Been a while since I posted, but was officially diagnosed with JME.
Got laid off a couple months ago and lost my insurance, the meds they had me on ran out, was started on taking some generic called Topiramate.
It worked and warded off any Grand Mal seizures, yet that(even when I was taking it) didn't help at all to stop the myoclonic jerks(where my arms and upper body twist forward like getting shocked, I'm occasionaly knocked off my feet...)
Case in point, right now I'm completely untreated by medication or anything, the jerks are worse then they've been for years. I've had them daily for years, yet now I can barely do anything without having them. Mine aren't photosensitive - they come from having to make decisions, strategy, calculations... pretty much damn near anything where I have to deeply 'think' - which, goes without saying, is terribly annoying and obstructive to a lot of simple pleasures and life have-to's.
Is there any advice out there, herbal, meditative, medicinal - ANYTHING, that can just.... STOP these from happening. Alleviate it...
.... the only thing I've come up with is drinking. When I'm drinking beer, they're diminished. When I'm pretty much drunk, they're absent.
Now, having to drink pretty much all the time isn't an alternative and I'm pretty sure, same as last time when I was fighting these same things, I've turned into a mild alcoholic. (As in I hate the taste, don't get much out of it, bt when I'm at drinking, I'm calm, the jerks stop and so on...) It's not the best treatment, by far.
I need a better plan to control these jerks.
Anyone, got any ideas at all?
Been a while since I posted, but was officially diagnosed with JME.
Got laid off a couple months ago and lost my insurance, the meds they had me on ran out, was started on taking some generic called Topiramate.
It worked and warded off any Grand Mal seizures, yet that(even when I was taking it) didn't help at all to stop the myoclonic jerks(where my arms and upper body twist forward like getting shocked, I'm occasionaly knocked off my feet...)
Case in point, right now I'm completely untreated by medication or anything, the jerks are worse then they've been for years. I've had them daily for years, yet now I can barely do anything without having them. Mine aren't photosensitive - they come from having to make decisions, strategy, calculations... pretty much damn near anything where I have to deeply 'think' - which, goes without saying, is terribly annoying and obstructive to a lot of simple pleasures and life have-to's.
Is there any advice out there, herbal, meditative, medicinal - ANYTHING, that can just.... STOP these from happening. Alleviate it...
.... the only thing I've come up with is drinking. When I'm drinking beer, they're diminished. When I'm pretty much drunk, they're absent.
Now, having to drink pretty much all the time isn't an alternative and I'm pretty sure, same as last time when I was fighting these same things, I've turned into a mild alcoholic. (As in I hate the taste, don't get much out of it, bt when I'm at drinking, I'm calm, the jerks stop and so on...) It's not the best treatment, by far.
I need a better plan to control these jerks.
Anyone, got any ideas at all?