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Hello all,
I'm new here and this is my first post. I wanted to make this my first post because this is something I've never seen anyone discuss and I wanted to get the question out there before I forget it (I have the typical epilepsy memory problems).
Anyway, I'm in my mid 30s and have had E since I was about 15. From the time I was 15 until I was about 32, my seizures were extremely well controlled by Depakote. Then, for no apparent reason, the med stopped working as well as it used to. Within a couple of years, I had more TC seizures than I'd had in all the time I'd had E. Despite having my GP up my dose a couple of times, it still isn't as effective as it used to be.
Anyway, the breakthrough seizures I have always seem to happen just as I'm falling asleep. I'll have a couple of the myoclonic jerks I've always had that always served as my auras (They're always accompanied by a weird feeling of profound dread) and then sometimes I will have a full blown TC and sometimes not.
So. The thing I wanted to ask is this -
Has anyone ever felt significantly different after having a particular seizure? Usually, if I have a TC, I'll be sore and out of it for a few days and then I'll gradually go back to feeling the way I did before the seizure.
So I had one about a week ago. This time, though I had the usual soreness, bitten tongue and so forth, after a couple of days, I noticed that my mood was profoundly different than it has been for many years. For the first few days, I felt completely uninterested in things that usually held my interest for many hours.
Then, a few days later, I noticed that I felt somehow, smarter or something. I don't know. I felt like I could think more clearly and I have generally felt like that since then.
Anyway, I thought that was weird because that's the first time I've ever experienced a really noticeable change like that. Usually, I feel dumber or slower after a TC.
I'm new here and this is my first post. I wanted to make this my first post because this is something I've never seen anyone discuss and I wanted to get the question out there before I forget it (I have the typical epilepsy memory problems).
Anyway, I'm in my mid 30s and have had E since I was about 15. From the time I was 15 until I was about 32, my seizures were extremely well controlled by Depakote. Then, for no apparent reason, the med stopped working as well as it used to. Within a couple of years, I had more TC seizures than I'd had in all the time I'd had E. Despite having my GP up my dose a couple of times, it still isn't as effective as it used to be.
Anyway, the breakthrough seizures I have always seem to happen just as I'm falling asleep. I'll have a couple of the myoclonic jerks I've always had that always served as my auras (They're always accompanied by a weird feeling of profound dread) and then sometimes I will have a full blown TC and sometimes not.
So. The thing I wanted to ask is this -
Has anyone ever felt significantly different after having a particular seizure? Usually, if I have a TC, I'll be sore and out of it for a few days and then I'll gradually go back to feeling the way I did before the seizure.
So I had one about a week ago. This time, though I had the usual soreness, bitten tongue and so forth, after a couple of days, I noticed that my mood was profoundly different than it has been for many years. For the first few days, I felt completely uninterested in things that usually held my interest for many hours.
Then, a few days later, I noticed that I felt somehow, smarter or something. I don't know. I felt like I could think more clearly and I have generally felt like that since then.
Anyway, I thought that was weird because that's the first time I've ever experienced a really noticeable change like that. Usually, I feel dumber or slower after a TC.