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Hey, my name is Jessica.
I was diagnosed with Epilepsy in early 2011 after having several tonic-clonic (still learning the proper names of all these!) seizures and partial seizures where I had kept having what I dubbed "time-skips". I would do things but had no memory of doing them. At this time I wasn't too worried about it, the tonic-clonic seizures where not severe and I was conscious throughout them, and until the specialist told me I never figured the memory issues was abnormal, well not for me anyway.
I had some tests which didn't show any proving results, but I was given Tegretol which until recently has worked great. My specialist said he didn't want to put me through anymore testing unless for some reason the Tegretol failed...
...which it has. It's been over a year later and my Tegretol is no longer stopping the seizures. In fact they seem to be getting worse.
I get partials all the time and tonic-clonics roughly every day or so. *sigh*
I do plan to get to a specialist but I have just moved so I have to find a doctor first! So everything is up in the air until I can get everything organized, which isn't easy when I keep forgetting everything and anything. I swear, I put my hair brush in the same spot every afternoon and yet still can't find it nearly every morning, what's up with that? Derp.
I may mention I also have Fibromyalgia, which really is no help at all. I sometimes wonder if it contributes to a good deal of my seizures as every time my aches and pains are bad, so is the epilepsy. :/
Well that's about all for now. I'm a bit shy but I do like comments and such, I just take my time to reply sometimes. I swear I'm not a snob! XD
As a last request though, is there anyway to change the background colour here? I am having trouble reading the text. If not it's ok, I'll manage. Thanks.
I was diagnosed with Epilepsy in early 2011 after having several tonic-clonic (still learning the proper names of all these!) seizures and partial seizures where I had kept having what I dubbed "time-skips". I would do things but had no memory of doing them. At this time I wasn't too worried about it, the tonic-clonic seizures where not severe and I was conscious throughout them, and until the specialist told me I never figured the memory issues was abnormal, well not for me anyway.
I had some tests which didn't show any proving results, but I was given Tegretol which until recently has worked great. My specialist said he didn't want to put me through anymore testing unless for some reason the Tegretol failed...
...which it has. It's been over a year later and my Tegretol is no longer stopping the seizures. In fact they seem to be getting worse.
I get partials all the time and tonic-clonics roughly every day or so. *sigh*
I do plan to get to a specialist but I have just moved so I have to find a doctor first! So everything is up in the air until I can get everything organized, which isn't easy when I keep forgetting everything and anything. I swear, I put my hair brush in the same spot every afternoon and yet still can't find it nearly every morning, what's up with that? Derp.
I may mention I also have Fibromyalgia, which really is no help at all. I sometimes wonder if it contributes to a good deal of my seizures as every time my aches and pains are bad, so is the epilepsy. :/
Well that's about all for now. I'm a bit shy but I do like comments and such, I just take my time to reply sometimes. I swear I'm not a snob! XD
As a last request though, is there anyway to change the background colour here? I am having trouble reading the text. If not it's ok, I'll manage. Thanks.