I was diagnosed with seizures when I was 5 years old. I would just collapse. It happened three times and it was verified by eeg. I was put on Dilantin for approx. 3 years and my GP weaned me off the medication and told my mom that I had probably out grew them. Fast forward to 2001, about three weeks after the birth of our daughter and almost 28 years later, my husband and I are driving around town and I started talking to him about how it would be nice to have another child and how I had always wanted a little girl, since we already had at the time an 8 year old son. He looked at me really funny and said, we just had another baby. I started crying , because for the life of me I could not remember being pregnant with her or having her, even though she was in the backseat of the car. My doctor refered my to a neurologist and he told me it was post partum depression. I disagreed and said I had ppd and this was nothing like that, and it was gone almost as quickly as it came on. These same episodes would happen maybe once or twice a year, I had several eeg's and everything came back normal. This year I started having heart problems (low pulse rate) and was placed on a 30 holter moniter I woke up in the middle of the night because I was sick to my stomach and went into the bathroom, on my way back to bed, I yelled out my husbands name and I started to collapse to the floor. My monitor showed my pulse rate at 32, he was able to press the button to record it and called 911. I was admitted to the hospital and the next day was taken by ambulance to another hospital for a cardiac ablation to fix the tachycardia they stated I was having during the night. The next few days though, my sense of smell was heightened and food had no taste to it, which is something I experience after I have these episodes and this lasts for at least 2 days. When I get back to work I am finding that I am having more of these almost out of body moments and I speak to my GP again and she refers me to another neurologist and he puts my on medication (I have been on 4 different ones so far) and then after a month I start having episodes again, then another medication, so on and so on. He does not think it is seizures, but more of a psychological issue, since I do not have a family history of seizures? At my urging he has scheduled an appointment for me to go into Inpatient EEG monitoring starting Tuesday. I am having a hard time at work. At the urging of my boss who has been wonderful about all my time off, I have filed FMLA paperwork, but was very hard to get the doctor to sign off on it. He stated that since I didn't work around heavy machinery the types of episodes I am having should not interfere with my work. My work is very fast paced and meticulous and very little room for error and tried to explain that to him and he agreed to the time off for the test and one day a month. I have been ready the posts on here the last couple of weeks and have been amazed thinking, of my gosh, that is me!!
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