Hello,
My husband started having absent seizures back in the summer of 2015. He also had a major mental breakdown and was diagnosed bipolar. So, the Dr.'s thought his memory loss was due to bipolar disorder. Skip ahead to May of 2016 and he had a grand mal seizure one day when we were camping. The ER gave him Codine for the headache he had from it and he had a EEG. While that was happening he slipped into a coma. They believe he had seritonin syndrome due to the Codine and multiple over meds he was on for bipolar. He ended up having another grand mal seizure a month later. It was a rough couple of years with multiple test and no real diagnosis. A neurologist told us it was epilepsy. He was good all winter and then in the summer of 2017, he woke up completely disoriented and in a lot of pain. Went to the ER and his CK levels were off the charts. I believe he has frontal lobe seizures, but the hospital neurologist said it was due to his past bipolar. So... his regular neurologist pushed us back to a physchiatrist. We are so disheartened as I know this isn't due to the bipolar. He was most of the winter, but started having memory lapses and waking up disoriented again in the last 4 months. Yesterday afternoon, he had another grand mal seizure while we were walking our two boys. We actually met with the phych yesterday before the seizure and he said the symptoms we were describing sounds post-seizure related and to follow up with a neurologist! I just don't know what to do! No doctors can seem to figure it out. I've scheduled a new neurology appt. for next week and an appt. with his general doctor. Any helpful tips. I'm keeping a log, but his symptoms seem so odd. Some days he almost appears as though he is drugged, but I know he isn't using anything. Help.
My husband started having absent seizures back in the summer of 2015. He also had a major mental breakdown and was diagnosed bipolar. So, the Dr.'s thought his memory loss was due to bipolar disorder. Skip ahead to May of 2016 and he had a grand mal seizure one day when we were camping. The ER gave him Codine for the headache he had from it and he had a EEG. While that was happening he slipped into a coma. They believe he had seritonin syndrome due to the Codine and multiple over meds he was on for bipolar. He ended up having another grand mal seizure a month later. It was a rough couple of years with multiple test and no real diagnosis. A neurologist told us it was epilepsy. He was good all winter and then in the summer of 2017, he woke up completely disoriented and in a lot of pain. Went to the ER and his CK levels were off the charts. I believe he has frontal lobe seizures, but the hospital neurologist said it was due to his past bipolar. So... his regular neurologist pushed us back to a physchiatrist. We are so disheartened as I know this isn't due to the bipolar. He was most of the winter, but started having memory lapses and waking up disoriented again in the last 4 months. Yesterday afternoon, he had another grand mal seizure while we were walking our two boys. We actually met with the phych yesterday before the seizure and he said the symptoms we were describing sounds post-seizure related and to follow up with a neurologist! I just don't know what to do! No doctors can seem to figure it out. I've scheduled a new neurology appt. for next week and an appt. with his general doctor. Any helpful tips. I'm keeping a log, but his symptoms seem so odd. Some days he almost appears as though he is drugged, but I know he isn't using anything. Help.