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Newbie here, strange event happened

Jan 30, 2008 06:31PM - 0 comments

Hi my name is Tara i'm a 25 year old mother of one, considered obese by my doctor but otherwise healthy. A few days ago I was driving to pick something up in Omaha, about a half hour from where I live. As I was just starting to head home, I noticed something about my hands seemed out of place, I thought it was just because I wasn't used to driving my dads big diesel truck so I tried to blow it off. A few minutes later I noticed my hands started to go numb, so I pulled over to a gas station and called my mom, it was not easy dialing with numb hands and being disoriented. By this point I had a pretty bad headache as well so I told my mom I thought I was having a stroke and she would have to come get me. She called a friend of mine who lived nearby to come sit with me until she got there. By the time he got there I was losing it fast, I had bought some aspirin in the gas station and I was getting them all over the truck trying to manage to get one in my mouth. At first I could talk with my friend, then the sound of his and my voice started to sound really annoying so I decided to stop talking. A few minutes later I tried to tell him that I wanted my window down, but no matter what I tried to say, completely different words came out. For some reason it didn't scare me it just frustrated me. Eventually I could say window window window, by that time my mom was there and she took me to the emergency room. By the time we got there I was completely freaking out. My head hurt like crazy, both arms and my chest were numb, but I couldn't tell anyone anything because some insane jumble of words came out of my mouth. I forget a lot of what happened at the hospital, but apparently since they couldn't understand what I was saying, and I couldnt tell them about my other symptoms, they thouht I was a psycho. I really did not want to be committed, I thought I was dying but I just wanted to go home. They actually had a cop guarding my door, and I kept calling him in to tell him I wanted to go home, I couldn't get the words out though and eventually he would just go back in the hall. At some point my dad brought my son, poor baby. I couldn't talk, i was not at all oriented and my dad brought my 18 month old son in! That didn't last long, I guess I didn't even want to hold him which is highly unlikely for me, and my mom also told me that I was freaking out on her all night, I didn't even notice that she was having chest pains and crying. I was just yelling at her and freaking out pacing the little room. Eventually I calmed down enough to tell the guard that I wanted to go home, as soon as he saw me talking normally he let me go. When I looked at the discharge papers all they said was a temporary loss of mental awareness. On the way home I did not feel well at all, my head hurt, my stomach hurt, I was confused. As soon as I got out of the car in the garage I vomited everywhere. If you knew me, you would know that I do not throw up, the last time I did was 9 years ago, I was completely shocked, but I was still out of it so I kept walking into the house. My family had decided to keep my son until I felt better and at the time I didnt care, I passed out and have been sleeping pretty much non-stop for 3 days. I'm so Tired, I did go see the neurologist, she put me on Topamax, thinking it was a migraine, but if I don't start to feel better soon I have to go for an MRI, has anyone been through this before?

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