Believe it or not I found this site by looking up "Inkblot Tests". I wanted to see what the fuss was about Wikipedia (disclosing the secrets of Headshrinkers) and ran across a reference to "acquired epileptic aphasia"
or Landau–Kleffner syndrome (LKS).
What caught my attention was it affects young children and disappears by adulthood. The only things that didn't fit me was age and I don't really remember any loss of language skills.
In the beginning:
I was diagnosed between ages 8 - 10 years old (Grand-Mal) that is the only thing I remember (almost 50 yrs ago).
Mostly controlled by the second med ( this was the 60s I think it was Misolin - was allergic to phenobarbital ).
What made my parents take me to the Dr. were periods of staring off into space nd being unresponsive (Neuro called them Petit-Mal seizures) and later the Grand-Mal seizures started.
Loved those pins they stuck in my scalp or that glue that wouldn't wash out.
I haven't had either type since about age 18 and I quit the AED as I kept forgetting to take it properly and trying to restart it left me wiped out for 10 or more days. I kinda held my mental breath in one corner of my mind and forged ahead with my life, pretty much denying I ever had a problem.
The end (Right?)
I thought so until I read a couple of descriptions of a Partial Seizures:
# it feels like a *zap* of electrical current that just zoomed from my brain and rushed back to my head - like electricity, you can actually feel it!
# it leaves me stunned, in a daze, like "Whoa!
If anyone here has ever been zapped by an electric fence except no pain.
Recovery is quick, maybe a slight hitch in my stride, shake it off an go on.
I can't remember when these "Electrical Shocks" started happening and they are infrequent (never kept track) maybe from 0 a month to 3 or 4 and have been happening for several years. By several I would say at least 3 years.
Are these possibly a harbinger of worse seizures ahead? I mean, should I be concerned as I ride a motorcycle as well as pilot a 4 wheeled vehicle.
Also the question of memory problems possibly stemming from the AED I was taking as a child or possibly connected with E itself??
Thoughts?
or Landau–Kleffner syndrome (LKS).
What caught my attention was it affects young children and disappears by adulthood. The only things that didn't fit me was age and I don't really remember any loss of language skills.
In the beginning:
I was diagnosed between ages 8 - 10 years old (Grand-Mal) that is the only thing I remember (almost 50 yrs ago).
Mostly controlled by the second med ( this was the 60s I think it was Misolin - was allergic to phenobarbital ).
What made my parents take me to the Dr. were periods of staring off into space nd being unresponsive (Neuro called them Petit-Mal seizures) and later the Grand-Mal seizures started.
Loved those pins they stuck in my scalp or that glue that wouldn't wash out.
I haven't had either type since about age 18 and I quit the AED as I kept forgetting to take it properly and trying to restart it left me wiped out for 10 or more days. I kinda held my mental breath in one corner of my mind and forged ahead with my life, pretty much denying I ever had a problem.
The end (Right?)
I thought so until I read a couple of descriptions of a Partial Seizures:
# it feels like a *zap* of electrical current that just zoomed from my brain and rushed back to my head - like electricity, you can actually feel it!
# it leaves me stunned, in a daze, like "Whoa!
If anyone here has ever been zapped by an electric fence except no pain.
Recovery is quick, maybe a slight hitch in my stride, shake it off an go on.
I can't remember when these "Electrical Shocks" started happening and they are infrequent (never kept track) maybe from 0 a month to 3 or 4 and have been happening for several years. By several I would say at least 3 years.
Are these possibly a harbinger of worse seizures ahead? I mean, should I be concerned as I ride a motorcycle as well as pilot a 4 wheeled vehicle.
Also the question of memory problems possibly stemming from the AED I was taking as a child or possibly connected with E itself??
Thoughts?