Return of seizures

[oddsymptoms]

In October if 1981 I was diagnosis with epilepsy at the University of Michigan Medical Clinic.  I am female and was then 26 years old.  I was an engineering student that just started working for an automobile company in their computer aided design department.  These computers terminals were new back then and were in dark rooms with black backgrounds and green drawings.  These large terminals would constantly flash.  After two months my right hand would constantly shake.  I would then pass out for about three minutes.  I though it was my low blood sugar and to much coffee.  I went to my family doctor who ran tests and started me on Dilantin.  After two weeks it got real bad and I walked into the walk in clinic at U of M.  They sent me to the Neurology department and I seen a Neurologist that ran about six tests and put me on strong dose of Tegretol.  It controlled it about 90 percent.  The automobile company then gave me another job in the daytime in a well lighted computer room with new color terminals and it stopped.  I then quit working on graphics ternminals and became a software engineer instead on small screen computers and could stop taking Tegretol.
I have since retired to the south and my thyroid failed.  I was put on Levothyroxin 50 MCG and I started having seizures again   I told him I wouldn't take that drug and he put me on Armour Thyroid 30 MG.  I haven't told my new doctor but I think I am have grand mal seizures at night.

[oddsymptoms]

I seen a neurologist on Thurday.  Just got out of the hospital for a pace maker.  Was there for two weeks. My blood pressure wouldn't come back up.  He sent me for a cat scan.  Is your brain suppose to look the same on both sides.  They gave me a copy of a cd disk and films.  My doesn't.   I feel less pain on my right side and I can't kept my balance walking heel to toe.  He gave me another prescription for Tegertol.  I live in New Mexico for two years.  I use to live in MIchigan in tornado alley.  I built a house on twenty acres.  I would sleep on a coach bed in the basement.  The well had a leak and would run water down the wall.  There was a funny green gray dusk everywhere.   The ENT just got out of my ears.  He gave me a fungus medicine to put on my eardrums.  My gp gave me fungus medicine to grow back I nail I lost to cat scratch and it is like a kept passing an infection.  I was on it for 10 weeks.  Can I get an infection in my colon, chest and head.  Can that happen to you.

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

Is it sleep apnea that they have diagnosed ? If you get grand mal seizures at night, did they do a video EEG ?

If the light is a trigger for your seizures, you can use eye-blinders. Have you tried these ?

Regards

[oddsymptoms]

I had three partial EEG's done.  One in 1991 when the Psychiatrist that ran the sleep disorder clinic told me I had a sleep disorder.  I never told him about the epilepsy.  He told me I was never going into REM sleep or dream sleep.  I use to see people and objects in the daytime.  He told me I was seeing my dreams.  He put me on Vivactal.   I started not being able to sleep again in April of 2007.  Thet took out my gallbladder in July of 2007.   I still couldn't sleep.  My new doctor, I moved to New Mexico from Michigan, sent me to a sleep disorder clinic.  I told this Psychiatrist about the epilepsy.  
I went there twice and had two partial EEG's and said I will partail stop breathing 32 times an hour when I am in REM sleep.  They want to give me a breathing machine.  I'm going to see my primary doctor about it on Wednesday January 30.  I'm on an HMO so I am going to ask him to sent me to a Neurologist.  I need a referral.  I'm afraid to use that thing.  I been having grand mal seizures around 12:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. at night.  I have this security light shining in my room constantly at night and these seizures have to do with light.  I just ordered some heavy drapes for my bedroom.  They don't sell heavy drapes in New Mexico.

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

I am not sure which glands you are referring to. But, yes, if the focus is near the visual association areas, or even the areas for emotions, you may experience dreams. Partial seizures originating from the temporal lobe (where you have the memory and emotions) are known to cause a whole lot of such problems.

Have you got a fresh EEG done ?

Regards

[oddsymptoms]

I just told my new primary doctor about having seizures disorder.  I am a 5'-0" tall 125 lbs 52 year old female.  He is more worried about my blood pressure right now.  It will rise all of a sudden to 147/107 and the emergency room doctor has to give me something to bring it down.  I can do it myself now with two to four baby aspirin and Atenotol 25 mg.  I have an appointment with a cardiologist next week.  My primary doctor put me on Fluticasone Propionate Spray for constant ear aches.  This spray stopped the grand mal seizures fo over a month but they are now starting again.  It also gave me constant dreams of having sex with my boyfriend in college when I was 19.  These dreams even happen when I am awake.  If the focal point of your seizures is near your glands can it do strange thing to you.

[Abhijeet Deshmukh, MD]

Hello.

What you earlier had were partial seizures. And Tegretol is a good drug for partial seizures. Your partial seizures may go on to develop in to generalized seizures.

Levothyroxine is known in some cases to cause seizures, as its side effect.

It’s time to start Tegretol again, with your neurologist's prescription.

Have you had an EEG done recently ?

Regards