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wait wait - memory loss is associated with epilepsy???
I guess I'd forgotten that part when I was studying wth it was after they diagnosed me.
 
A simple trip to the grocery store takes FOREVER! Oddly enough shopping with my best friend today was worse than shopping with a fellow epileptic...I think her memory is worse than mine hahaha
 
if you know what it's like
and oh yes, you'll know
you'll definitely know
welcome Neo - welcome to the real
 
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janinestarr said:
A simple trip to the grocery store takes FOREVER! Oddly enough shopping with my best friend today was worse than shopping with a fellow epileptic...I think her memory is worse than mine hahaha
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Hahaha, this sounds like me. One of my friends the other night thought I was drunk because I was wandering around in circles the same section of Wal Mart.

Should I also say, you repeat yourself but can't remember if you have or not? I am pretty sure I posted that somewhere else (though not on this thread?)
 
... you consider using "Pictionary" style drawings to convey the word you just can't remember. I had kind of an informal interview at the office where I've been temping and couldn't think of the word "subcontractor" and had to talk around it for about 20 long seconds.
 
I know exactly what you mean there matlock,thats a royal pain in the butt when that happens.
 
when you can tell the difference between empty pharmacy bottles with no label on them, because you have gotten so many.
 
When you walk past the EEG office at the hospital and when the techs see you they all come out to the front desk to wave hi, call you by name, and ask how you're doing; you know them each by name (Sue, Callie, and Charly, respectively haha).
 
panic attacks to remind yourself to do something includes the thing you're doing at that moment but you were so involved in the stress that you were overlooking entirely what you were doing at the moment
 
seizurrific said:
When you walk past the EEG office at the hospital and when the techs see you they all come out to the front desk to wave hi, call you by name, and ask how you're doing; you know them each by name (Sue, Callie, and Charly, respectively haha).
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lol - the one time I've had an EEG I was so out of it I probably couldn't have remembered my own name much less any techs
 
anyone ever do this ?

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LOL!!! Can't say I've ever used a cat but I used a shoe once. I came out of it and just started laughing- oops. It was one of my nice running shoes too!! ;)


When you go to the store for some granola and soy yoghurt and you come home to discover you've bought neither of those things but have bought chicken, a HUGE thing of shredded cheese, a bag of charcoal, and a jar of "Extreme Green Pepper Salsa- Kiss of Death". Not even sure how I got the bag of charcoal home!! 1- I'm vegan (my mind apparently has other ideas apparently?), 2- my eyes water eating even medium-spicy salsa, and 3- I have no grill for BBQing hahahahahaha

Oh seizures :)
 
- You are trying to hole punch a document using a stapler & keep pulling the staples out then re staple the middle of the document wondering why it isn't working.
- You have a partial seizure while out walking with some friends & when you come out of your seizure you wonder why you are holding one of your friends water bottles (this happened to me a few years ago, apparently I took my friends water bottle of them while in the middle of a partial seizure :roflmao:)
 
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When you're looking through your back pack and find a large stash of plastic spoons from the cafeteria... I found a dozen or so in my bag today, no idea why, or when I put them there, but there they were...
 
...when you take your morning 1500mg dose of Keppera and you proceed to the nearest grocery store to kill a head of broccoli.
 
Lol- Bob! Keppra makes people insane haha

Also when you take a 2000 mg dose of Keppra and think you can save the world with an invention; things like a new way to fix the sink, a better way to open a can of soda, or a really great idea about making bike chains so sturdy and epic that you'll never have to replace it ever again. (my idea was the "fixing and improving the drain-stopper pull-stick", the others came from 2 other people taking Keppra too haha) Anyone else on good ole Kep that gets weird save-the-world/WTF-in-retrospect ideas? :D
 
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