I hate when that happens
May. 4th, 2003 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hiddenmuseHere I was, going along with my life, managing to have been seizure-free for almost 4 months (if I'm not mistaken) when I had a minor one this evening in my living room.
Perhaps it was due to come, because I'd had times at work where I may have been having breakthrough seizures - where I'd seem to slip out of it for a few seconds and appear to be daydreaming, only to come to and feel like nothing happened ... but suspecting that something did. :-/
Now, I don't know if I'd had breakthrough seizures - and I don't want to play self-medication games. (Yet, I've done that with my depression ... go figure!) And yes, I know that my drinking on Friday night probably didn't help matters much either. The funny thing is, I didn't get smacked with anything that felt remotely like a hangover until about 24 hours later, when I woke up from a nap with a killer headache.
(Before anyone jumps on my case about drinking - it's not something I do on a regular basis. More often than not, I'm content to drink something non-alcoholic, but Friday night, I guess I was feeling brave and I'd kept saying that the plan was to be drinking on Company X's money (which we did, via their American Express gift checks). Then, later in the evening, I went to Outback & got a Wallaby Darned - basically Bacardi Fuzzy Navel mix with ice, Champagne, Smirnoff Vodka and Peach Schnapps. Good stuff - and I stayed with one, as by the time I finished that one, I felt a bit numb in spots and almost wobbly in others. Just tipsy enough to know that I should stop now if I wanted to get home in one piece. So, yes, this might be my paying the price for pretending that I was a party girl the other night.)
Now, I think I'm going to get my ass into bed. Seizures can make a girl drowsy - even if there is no real physical motion, just the brain synapses firing every which way.
Perhaps it was due to come, because I'd had times at work where I may have been having breakthrough seizures - where I'd seem to slip out of it for a few seconds and appear to be daydreaming, only to come to and feel like nothing happened ... but suspecting that something did. :-/
Now, I don't know if I'd had breakthrough seizures - and I don't want to play self-medication games. (Yet, I've done that with my depression ... go figure!) And yes, I know that my drinking on Friday night probably didn't help matters much either. The funny thing is, I didn't get smacked with anything that felt remotely like a hangover until about 24 hours later, when I woke up from a nap with a killer headache.
(Before anyone jumps on my case about drinking - it's not something I do on a regular basis. More often than not, I'm content to drink something non-alcoholic, but Friday night, I guess I was feeling brave and I'd kept saying that the plan was to be drinking on Company X's money (which we did, via their American Express gift checks). Then, later in the evening, I went to Outback & got a Wallaby Darned - basically Bacardi Fuzzy Navel mix with ice, Champagne, Smirnoff Vodka and Peach Schnapps. Good stuff - and I stayed with one, as by the time I finished that one, I felt a bit numb in spots and almost wobbly in others. Just tipsy enough to know that I should stop now if I wanted to get home in one piece. So, yes, this might be my paying the price for pretending that I was a party girl the other night.)
Now, I think I'm going to get my ass into bed. Seizures can make a girl drowsy - even if there is no real physical motion, just the brain synapses firing every which way.
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Date: 2003-05-04 08:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-05 12:20 am (UTC)*jumps up and down giggling*
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Date: 2003-05-05 08:21 am (UTC)Seizures *shakes my head* I too have done the self medication game... and took myself off the blasted shit about 6 months ago because it's pure E-V-I-L.
I can't believe your seizures only make you "drowsy" after I have a major one all I want to do is sleep for about 2 days...
knock wood I haven't had one in about a year... but I figure it's about time again. I even put on my med alert bracelet this weekend... must be a sign.
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Date: 2003-05-05 09:48 am (UTC)I just know that I can't afford to self-medicate with my epilepsy. Miss one dose and I'm more likely to have a seizure. Especially if I don't get enough sleep, or I have my period.
Hopefully you'll be alright - especially if you're thinking that you may be due for a seizure.
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Date: 2003-05-05 12:47 pm (UTC)I couldn't handle the side effects of mine... I was on depakote and *thinks* I forget what else then FINALLY keppra... the depakote after being on it a month and a half would cause me to still be contstanly sleepy and just out of it.... I turned literally right in front of a car going about 40mph... they barely missed me... I decided that day to NEVER take depakote again... my neurologist decided that if I wouldn't thake the meds HE wanted me to take I couldn't be his patient *shakes my head*
Keppra wasn't so bad... minus the cost... I couldn't afford it... I had no health insurance....so I quit... thus far none... but you know that feeling right before you have one that it's bound to happen? well... I'm just waiting... hehehe