Lately, I've been having a stressful time in life and it seems my health isn't being too nice to me.
For a while, 15 months, I was off of the keppra generic, levetiracetam, that I was taking. I felt great, not so tired, was no longer able to fall asleep without a seizure. All was well until I got COVID in December 2020. Since then, I've been struggling again. I'm enduring the millennium wait to see the neurologist, which is always fun...
Like, I felt like garbage after Halloween. We had this stay at home party with the kids (which was a lot of fun). We usually don't do a ton of sugar. We usually do stevia sweetened stuff and things of that nature or fruits to cure the sweet tooth, but we did get a few extra treats that we normally don't that seemed pretty okay. The kid's seem fine, but I indulged a little bit and I felt horrible. No energy whatsoever, totally fatigued, and weak. My husband said my face look swollen, but I did find that there were wheat and almonds in some of the stuff, which I don't tolerate well anyway. I ate, took my supplements, had an electrolyte drink, but still felt super exhausted. My husband let me fall asleep at about 7 p.m. and I woke up at 9:30 p.m. since I wasn't feeling too awesome. Then, on Tuesday, I have still been flat out exhausted, fatigued (I've been battling fatigue for a while. I'm not sure if it's from going back on the keppra generic or what, but I feel like I have been hiking all day every day and it's difficult to wake up in the morning).
I am also having this tingling - pins and needles type feeling in my lower back. It feels terrible. It feels like something is rubbing up and down my lower spine. It was difficult to walk today. I had to run a few errands and I try so hard to hide it in public that my gait isn't that great. I can still fake it, but this isn't the first time lately that I have had issues with walking. I feel like my hips and legs aren't moving the way they should and it's hard to walk. Sometimes before a seizure, I lose the ability to walk and become uncoordinated. The lack of coordination I have lately is bothersome. Some days are better than others, but I'll be pouring laundry soap into a cup to dump into the washing machine dispenser. I have the intention there and have done this a million times, but keep missing it some how...like, it's weird. How on earth am I missing and spilling laundry soap everywhere?! Even times being uncoordinated or having an awkward gait, I don't always have a seizure after that - sometimes I'll feel okay in my mind or at times maybe a bit foggy, but then no seizure and these other weird symptoms. I should be able to do this in my sleep by now. I am so scared of MS and things like that right now...I'll make sure to bring it up with the neurologist so they can investigate it more, but I'm really scared of that (mostly scared of a spinal tap if they do think it could be MS or something...like deadly terrified of it)...
I wish things in life would get better....I'm not sure what to make out of the newer symptoms. Anyone had this happen to them?
For a while, 15 months, I was off of the keppra generic, levetiracetam, that I was taking. I felt great, not so tired, was no longer able to fall asleep without a seizure. All was well until I got COVID in December 2020. Since then, I've been struggling again. I'm enduring the millennium wait to see the neurologist, which is always fun...
Like, I felt like garbage after Halloween. We had this stay at home party with the kids (which was a lot of fun). We usually don't do a ton of sugar. We usually do stevia sweetened stuff and things of that nature or fruits to cure the sweet tooth, but we did get a few extra treats that we normally don't that seemed pretty okay. The kid's seem fine, but I indulged a little bit and I felt horrible. No energy whatsoever, totally fatigued, and weak. My husband said my face look swollen, but I did find that there were wheat and almonds in some of the stuff, which I don't tolerate well anyway. I ate, took my supplements, had an electrolyte drink, but still felt super exhausted. My husband let me fall asleep at about 7 p.m. and I woke up at 9:30 p.m. since I wasn't feeling too awesome. Then, on Tuesday, I have still been flat out exhausted, fatigued (I've been battling fatigue for a while. I'm not sure if it's from going back on the keppra generic or what, but I feel like I have been hiking all day every day and it's difficult to wake up in the morning).
I am also having this tingling - pins and needles type feeling in my lower back. It feels terrible. It feels like something is rubbing up and down my lower spine. It was difficult to walk today. I had to run a few errands and I try so hard to hide it in public that my gait isn't that great. I can still fake it, but this isn't the first time lately that I have had issues with walking. I feel like my hips and legs aren't moving the way they should and it's hard to walk. Sometimes before a seizure, I lose the ability to walk and become uncoordinated. The lack of coordination I have lately is bothersome. Some days are better than others, but I'll be pouring laundry soap into a cup to dump into the washing machine dispenser. I have the intention there and have done this a million times, but keep missing it some how...like, it's weird. How on earth am I missing and spilling laundry soap everywhere?! Even times being uncoordinated or having an awkward gait, I don't always have a seizure after that - sometimes I'll feel okay in my mind or at times maybe a bit foggy, but then no seizure and these other weird symptoms. I should be able to do this in my sleep by now. I am so scared of MS and things like that right now...I'll make sure to bring it up with the neurologist so they can investigate it more, but I'm really scared of that (mostly scared of a spinal tap if they do think it could be MS or something...like deadly terrified of it)...
I wish things in life would get better....I'm not sure what to make out of the newer symptoms. Anyone had this happen to them?