Flying a trigger?

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Abynorml

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I think the lack of oxygen in an airplane cabin may be a trigger for me, Im pretty sure I had a simple partial flying last week, and on the way back I kept having myoclonic jerks, then today I'm way over stressed from my dog getting mauled almost to death by one of my other dogs, I'm over my limit on credit card, and I've slept less than 8 hours in two days and when I was trying to take a nap on today's flight I suddenly got the"oh no" feeling and had horrible cold sweats and nausea for a few minutes and it wasn't that I couldn't move but it was hard to? It stopped but I feel real out of it.
I've tried calling my neurologist about this but he's not returning my calls, I got an appointment with him on the 27th, just wish there was something i could do now to help stop this, I really hate it when I can't think clearly.
 
I'm sorry to hear about your dog! I know how important you have said they are to you. Is he/she going to be ok? Talk about a stressor.
I hate it when your mind feels all muddy too. Simple partials can be so frequent and are really disruptive to daily living.
I feel for you, I do.
 
The change in cabin pressure, or just the stress and fatigue could be playing a role too. If it happens a lot while flying, you might ask your neuro for a prescription of Ativan that you could take when you get on the plane.
 
Thanks, ive tried calling my neurologist for a week, so far no call back, I see him again the 27th to get the results of an MRI, after that I'm searching for yet another Neurologist, I'm so tired of trying to be patient with doctors or them treating things like this like it's not a big deal, every time it's happened I'm terrified it's gonna go full T/C.
 
Any chance your regular doc could prescribe the Ativan?
 
I'm current without a regular doc as my last one moved, and I've been so busy with the workers comp doc and the neurologist and EEGs and MRI's and I'm on the wrong side of the country, I'm gonna call the neuro again, his office finally called me, but only to tell me they got the MRI results and he needs to see me.
That never sounds good, when a doc calls and says he needs to discuss test results. I know the last MRI was clean so hopefully it's not bad news.
 
Finally got some communication to the neuro, he said I should take more Buspar, but I stopped taking that in February because his nurse told me to stop taking it because I was kind of thinking it was possibly lowering my threshold, I had a few Possible auras, and some coworkers were saying I was staring off into space during conversations, Im not sure if they were just brain farts or Absence's but I knew enough to get it checked out. I don't have the Buspar on me so it doesn't really matter, all the doc said he couldn't prescribe me anything else till I came to see him.
 
The Buspar was kinda helping with work stress but it does list seizures as possible side effects, I guess I just have to wait till the 27th, they said I could see a nurse Monday but what good does that do? Obviously he's not talking to his staff enough because he still had on the chart I was on Buspar.
 
The nurse might be able to take down some information, and get approval for a prescription. The epilepsy nurses I've seen were able to do that.
 
I thought about that, Im guessing I can wait till the 27th, I should have next week off, I fly home Sunday. I don't know what to do anymore, I'm gonna write down everything that's been happening, sometimes I forget or just don't want to mention everything to the doctor, the last time I saw him was for the EEG results and I was just so happy to have proof I wasn't making it all up, that I forgot to even talk about the issues with the Buspar plus I had stopped taking the Buspar by then so I wasnt having any problems except for the occasional jerks. It's to bad the Buspar seemed to help with stress, but I didn't like the light headed "something's wrong" feeling or the brain farts.
I'm gonna start a journal again, I stopped after the last neurologist made me feel like an ass.
 
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