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By hornybeauty_and_beast June 21, 2020 7 answers Last updated June 21, 2020

Hello. I am a young woman of 23 years. I used to live in UK, but now I am outside it.
Years ago I was "labeled" epilepsy, it was like a surprise; I was younger and it was quite stressful for me, and the symptoms were even more - an ugly picture... It happened everywhere - at home in front of the computer (playing games); at school in front of the computer or in the Physical Education class. Namely, this nasty trembling or involuntary movements of the hands. I will try to explain it as best I can, because maybe there are people who are still wondering what it is ... So, as I was standing in front of my computer and typing on the keyboard, I suddenly fell into a slight unconsciousness; both my arms stretch slightly forward and begin to tremble. Not the usual shivering, but a stranger kind of shivering. During this time I am almost conscious. It happens for about 5 seconds or some seconds, then it is repeated several times. And I realize I'm doing it, but while it's happening I can't stop it. They didn't tell me how I look from the side and maybe better, but ... it happened to me in quite inappropriate situations ...

 

 

Once while I had a class in Physical Education, and the time was for throwing some balls (you get stronger from a certain place and throw), it happened to me, but in a much more unusual way - instead of getting stronger and throwing the ball, for a moment it was as if I turned it off and started running (probably with the ball raised) against the teacher testing me ... You can only imagine what I looked like from the side ... humiliating for me. I felt it when I stopped, and the only thing that came to my mind to get out of the situation was to ask my teacher a question. But still, apparently, they saw exactly how I look from the side.
 
That's right. This went on for some time. I was prescribed Rivotril after a long visit to the doctors and tests. I was not for this medicine, because these mild seizures continued, and I had already had my big seizure, which I hardly remember - only from my mother's words. In short, that night before I had the seizure, I was afraid to sleep alone and told my mother to sleep with me. Well, I suddenly got out of bed, slid to the floor and fainted. All I remember is that I woke up on the ground around a few doctors crying.

This was followed by a change of medication with Depakine Chrono 500. They stopped all my convulsions and seizures for a few years until I suddenly decided to stop them on my own, and I stopped visiting my neurologist. The stupidest thing in my life, I know ... And so a year and a half somewhere, maybe two without anything. Until the moment came when the convulsions recurred.
I was very disappointed. I blamed myself. I went to my neurologist and explained what I had done. That's what Clonarex prescribed me. I drank it for a while, things calmed down ...

I got my second big seizure outside Bg. I was 20 I think. It was horrible ... It's good that I wasn't alone, but next to my friend. In short, before the fatal incident, an hour before that I had used marijuana and alcohol (whiskey) and gone to bed. Please don't start with the accusations of weed - I tell everything as it is, because I want to help people like me! )

After about an hour I woke up very stressed, about 2 in the morning, awakened by thunder and lightning outside. In my panic, I thought that something very scary was happening outside, I was under a lot of terrible tension because my heart was going to jump. Then came that trembling of the hands, then the great faint. I think the provocateur was alcohol and marijuana. People with epilepsy should not use alcohol and harmful substances, especially taken together ...


Then I went back to Depakine, but, my head hurt a lot, I stopped him. And bought without being examined by a neurologist or doctor. Terribly stupid, I know.


My third big seizure was again outside, in others. country. This time, before I had the seizure, I got an aura - I saw three gloomy pictures in a row in my mind. It was like the real thing. Closing my eyes, I felt the tension, and I quickly opened them - as if something from my eyes and head began to tremble, then my body ... and so, I got a third big seizure. My ex-boyfriend told me. This time I bit my tongue, white foam came out of my mouth mixed with blood from the bite of my tongue. When I regained consciousness I saw my frightened friend next to me tell me what had happened and we went to the hospital. We waited for 5-6 hours while I was admitted ... and in the emergency room ... it was awful. I was prescribed Clonazepam (Clonarex)


And so. I am now in another city in the same country. I was taking Clonazepam, now I am taking Lamotrigine. I don't think it's my medicine, and yet ...
Recently I have a non-specific heartbeat and "skipping" of the heart and shortness of breath. For several days, when I wake up and close my eyes, I get a slight "shaking" of the body. It is an epileptic symptoms.

I went to make an appointment and was returned twice. It's terribly frivolous.
In general, it harms my work as well. I had a suicide attempt with the medication I was taking - Clonazepam. I don't know exactly what they lead to, but I felt drowsy dizzy, suicidal thoughts, and all those bad, obsessive thoughts. I think they brainwash and psyche a lot of drugs ... especially AEMs (anti-epileptic drugs) ...

I ask the editors to approve my story. I really want to share all this with someone. Thank you!
If you have an idea, personal experience, comment, opinion ... I will be happy to share it with me.


Thanks again! Please approve my story ...
P. S. Sorry if I have spelling or punctuation errors and any kind of error, I wrote very quickly.

 

Answers 7

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1theone12 answered · June 21, 2020
I'm also in another country (for reference) and my last class had a daughter with the same illness. I can't say I know what it is, even if you have a relative, you can't say you're 100 percent aware. But it's really been obvious to you, not to the point of pleasant moments, but visibly and you're coping. It is normal for a person to seek support from someone, although in this case the only possible support from our point of view is the eventual understanding you will receive. I understand that you think you look ridiculous on the side, but I've seen epileptics in a moment of fainting and I haven't thought about anything like that, i've rather thought about what I should do and what's right. This is thankfully not the most severe disease, and people with it have no problem caring for themselves to live a life like any other. I had to visit a relative in hospital and met a woman who had been in bed for 15 years, was about 36-7 years old, so from that perspective, somehow many other things like epilepsy seem capable of overcoming.
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cinthiataborda answered · June 21, 2020
Find a PROVEN needle therapist and go! There's no shame in that. On the contrary, tell people to react appropriately.
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tanja_1984 answered · June 21, 2020
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vixen_temptress answered · June 21, 2020
Alcohol, grasses, stimulating drinks - strictly forbidden. If he wants a man not to complicate his situation further. Unfortunately, the drugs themselves, and also the epilepsy itself / and a row of other brain diseases / unlock depression. Clonerex is much nastier than Riverilla. can write, it is the same, but it is not - especially in the part of the side actions. Tell your doctor what's bothering you, bothering you, side action. With drowsiness getting used to, there's no other way. And movement, air / not to be trapped at home / sleep deprivation. It is desirable to minimize the comp / especially games /, tv. There are epilepsies that do not " appear " nor on the EEG, not on scanners, nowhere. Self-stopping medication should not be stopped. It's true, it's bad to get seizures in public, but you have to get over it. That even a cold is more dangerous to others - because it can infect them person. In short, you don't care. In terms of nutrition - one says one, another - in the meat part / especially pork /, carbohydrates. There is a theory of ketogenic / ketone / diet, that is helps to cure - but you only need under medical supervision, in a hospital to do In one sentence - sleep, movement, stress reduction, cessation of alcohol, cigarettes, stimulants and thus reduce excess load on the brain :)
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hot_girls__ answered · June 21, 2020
Thank you very much, everyone!!! Be healthy. :)))
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floridamustangman answered · June 21, 2020
It's not symptoms of epilepsy, it's some kind of mental illness. I'm sorry, if you're offended, I'm telling you good.
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2freakybidudes answered · June 22, 2020
Number 6 You're wrong. Focal epileptic crises, also called "aura", may manifest themselves differently, depends on which part of the brain the epileptic hearth is located. If the outbreak affects neurons responsible for motor functions, the crisis is manifested by movement disorders: tremor, loss of tone, hypertonus, repetitive movements. They can only affect one arm, a leg... Or they could affect one half of the body. In other cases, the outbreak is located in the part of the brain responsible for speech. In this case, a person suddenly ceases to speak or speak incoherently until the crisis passes. In an outbreak that affects neurons responsible for the senses, the symptoms are auditory, visual or psychosomatic. Auditory aura: sudden ear decay or noise, for example, pees. Visual aura: lights, colored spots appear, or the ability to distinguish colors is lost while the crisis lasts. Psychosomatic aura: deja vú, jamais vú, a sudden sense of fear or a sense of calm and bliss. There are over 30 types of epileptic crises. Unfortunately, a lot of the public doesn't know about it. Epilepsy is not expressed only by sudden seizures and loss of consciousness. There are people with epilepsy who have never lost consciousness in their lives because all the crises they have had have been focal. Mental illness has nothing to do with epilepsy, but can be mistaken, in both cases it is about deviations in the normal functions of the brain. The point is, with epilepsy, the deviations are on a neurological basis. An easy way to explain the difference between mental illness and epilepsy is based on the duration of symptoms and the way they are unlocked. With epilepsy, the crisis begins suddenly and does not last more than 2-3 minutes. Then the brain recovers, and unless it is a crisis with loss of consciousness (when the recovery period is about 20-30 minutes), a person continues to do what he has done without problems. During these auri, a person is fully conscious and understands what is happening to him, but can not stop it. If during a focal crisis an EEG is made on the paciem, a sharp change of the cartridge of movement of brain impulses is visible. In mental illness, there is no change in the cartridge of brain impulses. Their symptoms are longer in time (do not last 2-3 minutes) and in many cases, are inadequate, that is, do not differ truth from imagination. Another is the issue that as a result of the social problems that a chronic disease such as epilepsy creates, there are people who develop mental problems such as depression, panic disorders, etc.