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Starting on Friday, I was having small really small partials but several of them. Come Friday night I couldn't keep my eyes open no matter how hard I tried. Was totally out of it until about 7 am yesterday. When I first awoke I felt like my high energy mode was still on track, then wow, like bam a bad one hit me, I get so confused with these kind, I know it wasn't a grand mal, I get confused between the partials and complex partials when they are this bad, the bad one yesterday started with this like cloud around my mind stuck in one thought, then the that awful taste in my mouth, next I can remember trying to talk but nothing would come out right and I can't remember what I was trying to say or what I did say. I had the jerking and shaking in my right arm and hand and then very cold when it was very hot in this apartment. When I started coming out of it I felt really weak, my body felt like my arms and legs weighed more than my whole body and I was extremely unbalanced and couldn't hard keep anything in my hands without dropping it.
I had 3 of my grandkids here with me yesterday, and when they came in I was just starting to go into the worst part of the seizure and I had managed to tell them to lay down and be quiet until mamaw let them know it was ok to get up, they were wonderful they layed down and were totally quiet and still.(my daughter was running really late for work so she just sent them in, so she didn't know what was happening)
When I was able to talk right again, I could not remember their names, I said to my grandson Corey, here Corey handing him the remote and said to turn on the TV now to watch cartoons but still lay down and be quiet please, as I was handing him the remote I had to ask him honey your name is Corey right and he said yes mamaw, So the name was right I just didn't think it was. Weird.
Then within 20 minutes another one hit me, it wasn't as bad but still there. and then it was about 2 hours later another hit me. I felt so out of it after the first one so weak and tired and sleepy. Just one usally does not affect me this bad.
So far this morning, no seizures, but I still feel so weak and listless.
It just came to my mind this mornig that one of my meds, Tegeratol was changed to the generic carbamazpine (sp) I was taking that one for a good while, and now the the generic carb. has been changed to a generic for it called Epitol, and also now a generic for my Lamitical called lamotrigine, I have read on several posts and epilepsy boards that the generics for seizure med cannot work as good as the name brand. does anybody think that this could be a part of why now the seizures seem to be coming back more often and more severe than they were. I have been the the new generic for Tegratol for about 3 weeks now and for the Lamictal for about 1 week. I also have been on one of my very high bi-polar modes and it has stayed that way longer than it has so far, I was not sleeping more than 4 hours a day, my temper has been flying off the handle very easy, and before Friday couldn't seem to sit still for 10 minutes unless I was working on a craft while watching someting interesting to me on TV. When I saw my counselor last week, she wants me to get in to see my pysch ASAP saying that I am showing signs of being manic, I am very confuse over that, I looked up manic in the dictionary which actully goes along with mania and I really don't think I am like that, or could I just not believe that because I am manic.
Starting on Friday, I was having small really small partials but several of them. Come Friday night I couldn't keep my eyes open no matter how hard I tried. Was totally out of it until about 7 am yesterday. When I first awoke I felt like my high energy mode was still on track, then wow, like bam a bad one hit me, I get so confused with these kind, I know it wasn't a grand mal, I get confused between the partials and complex partials when they are this bad, the bad one yesterday started with this like cloud around my mind stuck in one thought, then the that awful taste in my mouth, next I can remember trying to talk but nothing would come out right and I can't remember what I was trying to say or what I did say. I had the jerking and shaking in my right arm and hand and then very cold when it was very hot in this apartment. When I started coming out of it I felt really weak, my body felt like my arms and legs weighed more than my whole body and I was extremely unbalanced and couldn't hard keep anything in my hands without dropping it.
I had 3 of my grandkids here with me yesterday, and when they came in I was just starting to go into the worst part of the seizure and I had managed to tell them to lay down and be quiet until mamaw let them know it was ok to get up, they were wonderful they layed down and were totally quiet and still.(my daughter was running really late for work so she just sent them in, so she didn't know what was happening)
When I was able to talk right again, I could not remember their names, I said to my grandson Corey, here Corey handing him the remote and said to turn on the TV now to watch cartoons but still lay down and be quiet please, as I was handing him the remote I had to ask him honey your name is Corey right and he said yes mamaw, So the name was right I just didn't think it was. Weird.
Then within 20 minutes another one hit me, it wasn't as bad but still there. and then it was about 2 hours later another hit me. I felt so out of it after the first one so weak and tired and sleepy. Just one usally does not affect me this bad.
So far this morning, no seizures, but I still feel so weak and listless.
It just came to my mind this mornig that one of my meds, Tegeratol was changed to the generic carbamazpine (sp) I was taking that one for a good while, and now the the generic carb. has been changed to a generic for it called Epitol, and also now a generic for my Lamitical called lamotrigine, I have read on several posts and epilepsy boards that the generics for seizure med cannot work as good as the name brand. does anybody think that this could be a part of why now the seizures seem to be coming back more often and more severe than they were. I have been the the new generic for Tegratol for about 3 weeks now and for the Lamictal for about 1 week. I also have been on one of my very high bi-polar modes and it has stayed that way longer than it has so far, I was not sleeping more than 4 hours a day, my temper has been flying off the handle very easy, and before Friday couldn't seem to sit still for 10 minutes unless I was working on a craft while watching someting interesting to me on TV. When I saw my counselor last week, she wants me to get in to see my pysch ASAP saying that I am showing signs of being manic, I am very confuse over that, I looked up manic in the dictionary which actully goes along with mania and I really don't think I am like that, or could I just not believe that because I am manic.
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