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Yesterday I had a follow up appointment with my neurologist which was teleconference so we chat video link which I do on my laptop or iPad. It saves me going the 4 hours each way to clinic. Since our last follow up my seizures have dropped a lot but I’m now getting a lot more post seizure headaches and or migraines, to the point where after a seizure the headaches can last up to 3 days.
The neurologist was particularly concerned about the headaches, has told me the best pain killer to take and put me on a very low dose of topamax twice a day to help with the headaches. I was on topamax in 2006 - 2008 and apart from weight loss had no major issues with it.
Anyway not long after we started video conference and were talking about the headaches I spaced out and think I came to 1/2 an hour later.
I had to ring the specialist clinic to find out how to get hold off the neurologist again because I couldn’t remember if we actually had the appointment. They spoke to the neurologist who was with patients and said he’d ring me after clinic. He rang me that afternoon and confirmed I had a seizure and I hung up on our teleconference. We continued from where we were at re the headaches, at this stage he’s going to keep my other epilepsy meds as are as I don’t think he wants to mess with them too much.
Usually he sees me every 4 months but he wants to see me again in 3 months to make sure everything’s alright.
The neurologist was particularly concerned about the headaches, has told me the best pain killer to take and put me on a very low dose of topamax twice a day to help with the headaches. I was on topamax in 2006 - 2008 and apart from weight loss had no major issues with it.
Anyway not long after we started video conference and were talking about the headaches I spaced out and think I came to 1/2 an hour later.
I had to ring the specialist clinic to find out how to get hold off the neurologist again because I couldn’t remember if we actually had the appointment. They spoke to the neurologist who was with patients and said he’d ring me after clinic. He rang me that afternoon and confirmed I had a seizure and I hung up on our teleconference. We continued from where we were at re the headaches, at this stage he’s going to keep my other epilepsy meds as are as I don’t think he wants to mess with them too much.
Usually he sees me every 4 months but he wants to see me again in 3 months to make sure everything’s alright.