stuttering

[walkerjm3]

I apologize in advance if this has been previously posted.
Does anyone else here have any issues with stuttering? I do almost daily. It generally occurs before I stare off and can't speak. It's embarrassing as I feel everyone watching me and saying nothing. Some days it happens quite often. I do believe I read an old thread on here where someone's child had this issue but it stopped by switching meds. I have switched with no difference.
It usually also comes with a numb feeling on the left side of my head/temple region.

 

[AlohaBird]

http://dogtorj.com/appetizers/medical-conditions-k-z/stuttering/

Give this a read. It is a theory, not definitive proof but I think it has merit.

 

[walkerjm3]

While I don't disagree with this, allow my neurological issues raised from my motorcycle accident and subsequent vehicular accident.

 

[Cint]

Hey walkerjm,

Stuttering has been discussed here on CWE before. Click here:
http://www.coping-with-epilepsy.com/forums/f23/epilepsy-stuttering-14849/

And AlohaBird, you will find that the dog doc has been mentioned in here as well.

 

[AlohaBird]

Ah, walkerjm3, Yes that article is talking more about idiopathic epilepsy. I didn't realize that yours had an injury basis.

And Cint, yes I know the "dog doc" has been mentioned, dogged on, and defended before. Let's not do that again please.

 

[walkerjm3]

Thanks for the link. Guess I should have dug a little deeper.

 

[Nakamova]

Since the stuttering immediately precedes your complex partial seizures, it sounds like it's a simple partial seizure. Seizure symptoms involving speech tend to be related to temporal lobe damage. Is that where your seizures arise and/or where your head trauma occurred?

 

[valeriedl]

I don't know if you want to say I actually 'stutter' but I have a good bit of trouble getting the word out. I may start the beginning of two, three or more different words before I get to the right one.

I know it can be embarrassing. I'm almost 40 and here I am sounding like a little kid who doesn't know their words yet. I've learned to just laugh it off with the person I'm talking to. Sometimes they laugh with me other times they don't. I do it so often that I just don't care anymore.

It happens all the time. I don't notice having an aura or while doing it a seizure after I do it.

Don't worry about not digging deep enough to find a post that answers your question. I've asked things many times and gotten links to older posts that give the answers.

 

[walkerjm3]

I hit the top of the back of my head so it would be more pariatal or occiptal lobe. But I have previously hit my head. About 10 years ago I fell down the stairs at my house and my head went through the wall. I honestly do not know what part and I never went to the doctor for it. My neurologist is now telling me he's not even sure it's seizures I'm having. I had an EEG done in May of last year and that's when he told me I had partial seizures. I then had some problems in October and had to spend the night at the hospital and had another EEG done. It came back normal and he's been telling me that he's not sure what is causing all of this. I'm very frustrated about it. How can you tell me I do but then all of a sudden I don't? I'm supposed to be doing the inpatient video EEG but have yet to hear from the hospital and it's been three and a half weeks.

 

[rhiz]

I had a similar problem as to what valeriedl had, my brain seemed to just be unable to produce words sometimes. I found this happened when I started Topiramate, and has calmed down since I've been off it. It was weird for me, as I've never really been short of words like that!