I am wondering if it is possible that instability of the knees is a symptom of epilepsy or possible side effect of medication. I have just begun trying to keep a seizure diary. I am so confused as to what may or may not be a seizure and therefore don't know if to enter certain things as seizures or not. I decided to put "or symptoms" next to the "type of seizures experienced" heading so that I can include everything, even if it's perhaps just a side effect of medication, and not look like a total dope.
Anyway, as for the instability of the knees, it's something that i've experienced sporadically since I was a child. I could be standing or walking and suddenly one or both knees 'collapse' or become unstable, although it's never enough to fully collapse to the ground it feels as if it's due to some kind of weakness of muscle, being unable to hold up my legs. I haven't ever suffered any trauma from physical injury although the severity of my seizures as a child meant that I had to go to physiotherapy to help me relearn to walk properly (don't think I ever lost total ability to walk but I did have difficulty) so for ages I just thought it might be from when I was younger and never mentioned to my neuro. I mentioned it once to my neuro a few years ago and he didn't think a lot of it but now that i've started with the 'seizure diary' I want to include anything and everything that may be pertinent.
As I began this post I lost track of what I was trying to say and it took 5 minutes to figure it out. Perhaps just normal confusion but it's just another little thing that I am going to keep track off. That way when I see my neuro he'll have the whole big picture to look at and hopefully know if what i'm experiencing is normal or if it's part of something bigger, to do with Epilepsy or otherwise.
I have been having a whole gamet of different types of 'events' that I figure if i'm having simple partial or any other type of seizures (other than the t-c I have been diagnosed as having since early childhood) it may shed a light on it as a whole, even if each individual thing seems like 'not much to worry about'.
Does any of that make sense?
Anyway, as for the instability of the knees, it's something that i've experienced sporadically since I was a child. I could be standing or walking and suddenly one or both knees 'collapse' or become unstable, although it's never enough to fully collapse to the ground it feels as if it's due to some kind of weakness of muscle, being unable to hold up my legs. I haven't ever suffered any trauma from physical injury although the severity of my seizures as a child meant that I had to go to physiotherapy to help me relearn to walk properly (don't think I ever lost total ability to walk but I did have difficulty) so for ages I just thought it might be from when I was younger and never mentioned to my neuro. I mentioned it once to my neuro a few years ago and he didn't think a lot of it but now that i've started with the 'seizure diary' I want to include anything and everything that may be pertinent.
As I began this post I lost track of what I was trying to say and it took 5 minutes to figure it out. Perhaps just normal confusion but it's just another little thing that I am going to keep track off. That way when I see my neuro he'll have the whole big picture to look at and hopefully know if what i'm experiencing is normal or if it's part of something bigger, to do with Epilepsy or otherwise.
I have been having a whole gamet of different types of 'events' that I figure if i'm having simple partial or any other type of seizures (other than the t-c I have been diagnosed as having since early childhood) it may shed a light on it as a whole, even if each individual thing seems like 'not much to worry about'.
Does any of that make sense?
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