I initially believed I was having pre symptoms to a severe migraine. A month later I was diagnosed with Epilepsy. I've had six seizures in two months and I've been fortunate enough that someone was always with me when I had them. My husband thinks I've had seven. He believes I had one while asleep. I don't know. I had a horrible stuttering and speech problem for about
an hour after I woke up and I had the shakes real bad. Has anyone else had this happen? Also which is the better position to have a seizure in: on your back or on your side? I don't know any one else who has Epilepsy and I have a gazillion questions. I've tried researching it, but there's so much stuff and I don't know where to start. My doctor isn't sure what caused them, he's thinking maybe a car accident four years ago that I had. (I rolled my truck three times and had a concusion from it) But if that's the case could something of triggered them now? Is it possible that my seizures are triggered by stress? We moved four times in four months (my husband had to go to Afghanistan and we were living in Arizona. I wanted to move back home with my family) We moved a few times while I was looking for a home, because my husband had left before I could find one. We have three kids. Lol a six year old, a three year old with bilateral hearing loss and our baby is only ten months and two weeks younger then our three year old. On top of it when I finaly did find a house it was basically falling apart, and I had no other choices (since I'm a stay at home mom and my husband is the one bringing in the income and couldn't sign the lease) I remodled a four bedroom house in a month (new flooring paint the works) all while having our kids in tow. Well then a friend of mine (who I hadn't really seen in eight years since I moved away) was in a jam and asked for help. I let her stay with me...she caused me all kinds of grief to say the least until my husband threw her out via email. Things finaly got normal and bam. The seizures started...but at first I wasn't sure what they were since I don't have grandmal it never occured to me that it was seizures. I started seeing a doctor for my "migraines" and I also got a full time job. Last month I had a "severe migraine" at work and my best friend (thankfully we worked together) told our boss that she was taking me to the emergency room. Since I was to embaressed to let her call an ambulance. I got admited for a few days and was diagnosed then. Two days later my husband came home from Afghanistan I had two seizures for sure while he was home, and he thinks a third in my sleep. He just left to go back to Afghanistan for nine more months. I'm really lucky that I have a lot of friends that care so much about
me that they run errands for me and help me out. I feel so guilty though because they help me so much. I've been trying to not get depressed...but it's really hard not to when I start thinking about
not driving for a year, being alone with my kids and still having to do things just like I did before this crap started happening. I know this is wayyyy long, but I haven't had anyone to tell the whole situation too. I'm freaking terrified I'm going to have a seizure when it's just me and my babies at home. I had to quit my job because I no longer had transportation to work (my friend lived in the oposite direction) I have horrible anxiety of dogs. But someone told me that they read if you're close to a dog it can empathize with you and possibly warn you when the on set of a seizure occurs. So I bought a puppy. I'm not scared of it, but I'm not really feeling connected to it other then picking up it's poop off of my carpet. Sorry one more thing and I'm done. Promise. I have never had high blood pressure and my doctor put me on meds for that too. Can the two be related? Sorry again for this long mess and if anyone actually reads all of this. Thank you.
Post Edited (Sheilamadrie) : 8/28/2007 4:38:23 AM (GMT-6)