Hey Lainey,
I've never lost consciousness, lose time, lose my memory, or my ability to think and control my muscles, although my legs have been weak a few times lately, however that could be the endocrine problem we are trying to tease out with all these unpleasant tests next week. :-(
My first symptoms are usually panicky feelings, sadness and crying, and then depersonalization like I'm floating over my body. Lot's of de-ja-vu, too. I can usually continue to carry on a conversation with someone without them even knowing but the underlying fear is there and I have to grit my teeth and bear it. They pass in about 60 seconds to 2 minutes, which was one of the first reasons that the doc said it wasn't panic disorder because it goes away so quickly and they started around age 2. But then I want to just sleep for several hours, however I can stay awake if I have to. I also get some weird tics like flexing my fingers or blinking my eyes, and one doc said I might even have Tourettes Syndrome which 2 second cousins do have.
This week when my sister was trying to talk to me, I was just so foggy I could't have a conversation with her because she was asking so many questions about what to eat, how to fix it, etc. and I think I just shut her out. My husband, the nurse, thinks it was a seizure and the Keppra. He talked to one of the neuros at the hospital where he works and he said Keppra is hard to acclimate to at the dose I'm on and I might ask to start a much smaller dose next month when I try to get on it again. I just have soooo many things going on at the same time. Argghghg!
It's the emotional trauma that I suffer from from a lot. Where I live it has to be pretty much an incapacitating grand mal or the absence seizures before you are restricted from driving. I usually ride to work with my husband and back home anyway, and don't drive that much, mostly because some of the agoraphobia is still hanging on. I"ve gone months and months without ever even having an aura, it's just in the past several weeks that things have gotten out of balance and of course I haven't been driving at all because I'm NOT going to take that risk. They are already greatly reduced now that I've added a tiny bit of klonopin several times a day (used to be entirely controlled with small amount of klonopin), but I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to take that Keppra because it knocked me on my butt - I was SO drowsy and felt sooooo strange on it. I've gone years without even having a seizure and the neuro thinks that will happen again. It's probably the endocrine problem that is setting them off. He also told me to hold off on Keppra until I get the tests done.
So until I'm feeling LOTS better I'm not driving, even if it is legal, so not to worry.
I've never lost consciousness, lose time, lose my memory, or my ability to think and control my muscles, although my legs have been weak a few times lately, however that could be the endocrine problem we are trying to tease out with all these unpleasant tests next week. :-(
My first symptoms are usually panicky feelings, sadness and crying, and then depersonalization like I'm floating over my body. Lot's of de-ja-vu, too. I can usually continue to carry on a conversation with someone without them even knowing but the underlying fear is there and I have to grit my teeth and bear it. They pass in about 60 seconds to 2 minutes, which was one of the first reasons that the doc said it wasn't panic disorder because it goes away so quickly and they started around age 2. But then I want to just sleep for several hours, however I can stay awake if I have to. I also get some weird tics like flexing my fingers or blinking my eyes, and one doc said I might even have Tourettes Syndrome which 2 second cousins do have.
This week when my sister was trying to talk to me, I was just so foggy I could't have a conversation with her because she was asking so many questions about what to eat, how to fix it, etc. and I think I just shut her out. My husband, the nurse, thinks it was a seizure and the Keppra. He talked to one of the neuros at the hospital where he works and he said Keppra is hard to acclimate to at the dose I'm on and I might ask to start a much smaller dose next month when I try to get on it again. I just have soooo many things going on at the same time. Argghghg!
It's the emotional trauma that I suffer from from a lot. Where I live it has to be pretty much an incapacitating grand mal or the absence seizures before you are restricted from driving. I usually ride to work with my husband and back home anyway, and don't drive that much, mostly because some of the agoraphobia is still hanging on. I"ve gone months and months without ever even having an aura, it's just in the past several weeks that things have gotten out of balance and of course I haven't been driving at all because I'm NOT going to take that risk. They are already greatly reduced now that I've added a tiny bit of klonopin several times a day (used to be entirely controlled with small amount of klonopin), but I'm not sure I'm ever going to be able to take that Keppra because it knocked me on my butt - I was SO drowsy and felt sooooo strange on it. I've gone years without even having a seizure and the neuro thinks that will happen again. It's probably the endocrine problem that is setting them off. He also told me to hold off on Keppra until I get the tests done.
So until I'm feeling LOTS better I'm not driving, even if it is legal, so not to worry.
