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I first found out that I had seizures at the age of 13 and I'm now 27. I've had two types of seizures that my neurologist had diagnosed me on having. They are grand mall and petite mall seizures. Since I had my first seizure at the age of 13 it has been a constant up hill battle for me in my life because first of all since i'm 27 now, it's been over half my life now that I have been having seizures! And when I have an appointment with my neurologist I always see a chart listing basically all the different names of medication used to treat seizures and I have tried basicallly all of them besides I guess some of the ones not listed but my neurologist said that on the chart are the most common ones used to treat epilepsy in general. I have had 3 neurologists throughout my life so far and the neurologist that I presently a patient of has had the most success on getting my seizures under control. But it seems that no matter what medications he put me on they only seem to work temporarily and than it's back to square one on whether to increase or decrease some of my medications or to try new ones to see if they can control my seizures atleast a little anyway.
My epilepsy was under control for approximately a year or so but than on October 16/07 I had a terrible hand injury that crushed my 4 fingers on my left hand just leaving my skin keeping them attached to the rest of my hand. If the skin had not kept my fingers connected to thr rest of my hand I would have had all 4 of them amputated most likely so I was fortunate to have one of the best known plastic surgeons in canada operating on my hand and trying to reconstruct my 4 fingers unfortunately since the damage to all 4 of my fingers not including my thumb was so critical they had no choice but to amputate my pinky finger and presently I'm on workers compensation for atleast 9 months prior to my injury and that since I'm left handed my surgeon and workers compensation decided or recommended that I cannot live independently and return to work until atleast 9 months or so prior to my injury or atleast until my hand gets healed.
The reason why I'm telling this terrible injury to you is because ever since I had that terrible injury my epilepsy started acting up on its own again triggering petite mal seizures when I''m trying to sleep on a constant and daily basis. I have a sleeping disorder my neurologist tells me because even the smallest of seizures that I cannot even feel wake me up at night.
So recently because of the injury I had to my left hand they had to prescribe 2 new medications(strong pain killers) to keep the agonizing pain level down so that atleast I can tolerate the pain more. But even with these pain killers that my plastic surgeon prescribe for me that I take on a regular and daily basis cannot sometimes have little or no effect at all on helping me control the pain.
Anyways with all that said and done I am presently on workers compensation and am seeing my physio and occupational therapists atleast 2-3 times per week and i am just starting my strength training program that my therapists and plastic surgeon have recommended me to start on and at the same time seeing my neurologist so that we can find some way of getting my seizures back under control.
Nice talking to you and take care for now!
My epilepsy was under control for approximately a year or so but than on October 16/07 I had a terrible hand injury that crushed my 4 fingers on my left hand just leaving my skin keeping them attached to the rest of my hand. If the skin had not kept my fingers connected to thr rest of my hand I would have had all 4 of them amputated most likely so I was fortunate to have one of the best known plastic surgeons in canada operating on my hand and trying to reconstruct my 4 fingers unfortunately since the damage to all 4 of my fingers not including my thumb was so critical they had no choice but to amputate my pinky finger and presently I'm on workers compensation for atleast 9 months prior to my injury and that since I'm left handed my surgeon and workers compensation decided or recommended that I cannot live independently and return to work until atleast 9 months or so prior to my injury or atleast until my hand gets healed.
The reason why I'm telling this terrible injury to you is because ever since I had that terrible injury my epilepsy started acting up on its own again triggering petite mal seizures when I''m trying to sleep on a constant and daily basis. I have a sleeping disorder my neurologist tells me because even the smallest of seizures that I cannot even feel wake me up at night.
So recently because of the injury I had to my left hand they had to prescribe 2 new medications(strong pain killers) to keep the agonizing pain level down so that atleast I can tolerate the pain more. But even with these pain killers that my plastic surgeon prescribe for me that I take on a regular and daily basis cannot sometimes have little or no effect at all on helping me control the pain.
Anyways with all that said and done I am presently on workers compensation and am seeing my physio and occupational therapists atleast 2-3 times per week and i am just starting my strength training program that my therapists and plastic surgeon have recommended me to start on and at the same time seeing my neurologist so that we can find some way of getting my seizures back under control.
Nice talking to you and take care for now!
