Hello everyone,
I'm pretty new. Been lurking around for the last few months and finally decided this am to ask a question! I'm very, very private about my temporal lobe E which is thankfully relatively easy to hide. I have simple partials very frequently and complex partials less frequently thanks to Keppra. I also have short absence seizures that seemed to start after a bad concussion in December. I rarely remember them and they're so short that it is hard to tell when they happen.
Anyways, on to my question. As mentioned above, I had the concussion(the loc, increase in seizures after, etc) in December and a month later had a bad case of viral meningitis. Both seemed to have knocked me back a bit E wise. I saw my neurologist in March to update her on everything and she immediately increased my keppra dose. It has definitely helped but I'm still just having problems. I am considering contacting her and asking if there's something else we can try but know a lot of it might be stemming from stress. I'm taking the mcat in two weeks and applying to med schools, which my dr knows about and agrees that now is not the right time to play with different meds. I also have a very stressful job working in the ER and my sleep schedule varies pretty dramatically week to week. Some nights I'm up until 2 or 3am because of work while others I'm asleep by 9 and at work by 6am. I'm working on getting a regular schedule set for myself because I know sleep is a trigger.
I guess what I'm asking is at what point do you call your doctor? Just to check in and say things aren't perfect, I'm having days where I have a dozen simple partials and a suspected absence or two. I have a follow up scheduled for June anyways bc we are changing my meds up and she knows I've been having a tough time. I sort of feel like an MRI and EEG would be a good idea after the "trauma" my brain has been through between the concussion and meningitis. But I also know my current lifestyle has something to do with it. Thankfully the mcat will be out of my life come the 17th, which is good. I feel like I spend 99.9% of my life right now hiding my E and doing my best to compensate for everything. Only the important people who absolutely have to know do know and I like it that way.
If you read through all of that, you deserve a cookie!
I'm pretty new. Been lurking around for the last few months and finally decided this am to ask a question! I'm very, very private about my temporal lobe E which is thankfully relatively easy to hide. I have simple partials very frequently and complex partials less frequently thanks to Keppra. I also have short absence seizures that seemed to start after a bad concussion in December. I rarely remember them and they're so short that it is hard to tell when they happen.
Anyways, on to my question. As mentioned above, I had the concussion(the loc, increase in seizures after, etc) in December and a month later had a bad case of viral meningitis. Both seemed to have knocked me back a bit E wise. I saw my neurologist in March to update her on everything and she immediately increased my keppra dose. It has definitely helped but I'm still just having problems. I am considering contacting her and asking if there's something else we can try but know a lot of it might be stemming from stress. I'm taking the mcat in two weeks and applying to med schools, which my dr knows about and agrees that now is not the right time to play with different meds. I also have a very stressful job working in the ER and my sleep schedule varies pretty dramatically week to week. Some nights I'm up until 2 or 3am because of work while others I'm asleep by 9 and at work by 6am. I'm working on getting a regular schedule set for myself because I know sleep is a trigger.
I guess what I'm asking is at what point do you call your doctor? Just to check in and say things aren't perfect, I'm having days where I have a dozen simple partials and a suspected absence or two. I have a follow up scheduled for June anyways bc we are changing my meds up and she knows I've been having a tough time. I sort of feel like an MRI and EEG would be a good idea after the "trauma" my brain has been through between the concussion and meningitis. But I also know my current lifestyle has something to do with it. Thankfully the mcat will be out of my life come the 17th, which is good. I feel like I spend 99.9% of my life right now hiding my E and doing my best to compensate for everything. Only the important people who absolutely have to know do know and I like it that way.
If you read through all of that, you deserve a cookie!
Really, you are under way too much stress and stress can/does bring on seizures, as does meningitis, but I think bacterial meningitis is worse for seizures. And a concussion isn't good for seizures, either. So if you already had TLE to begin with, all this stress is going to decrease your seizure tolerance. Seizures generate more seizures, too. And lack of sleep can bring on seizures. So how long do you think you can keep this all hidden? Eventually, it will all come to light and seizures could increase if you keep up this "madness".