Possible Grand Mal Seizure
Sorry it has been so long since I posted. I read my friendslist still, even when not posting. I think I had a seizure early in the morning. Last night I was overheated, super happy, super excited, buying books on my Kindle I couldn't afford and reading late into the night. I had wine to try and make me sleep and it didn't work at all. Eventually I took Klonopin, plus it was super late, and I slept. The time before seizures can be manic-like. I think I had a seizure while sleeping, though I didn't wet the bed this time. I woke up really groggy, but managed to shower. Then got REALLY exhausted and for about six hours laid in bed, not moving. Sometimes I was awake, but I still couldn't even lift my arm. I missed phone calls. Finally I struggled up and craved really high fat food and ate tons of bacon and ice cream. The Ketogenic diet for seizures is high-fat and I know of other people who feel better faster from seizures by eating lots of fat. I don't remember how that works. In 2012 I had an EEG showing seizure activity, but my 2014 one was normal (though I was on the maximum dose of Topamax at the time of my testing, and that had seemed to be controlling my seizures). I'm just on an average dose of Neurontin now, through my psychiatrist, for anxiety and pain. I don't see a neurologist. I have a bad history with them (they have tended to scare me -- I get ones that are very opinionated with strong personalities). In the summer when I had my last test and it came clean, my neurologist blamed my seizure-like experiences on "Fugue" and "PTSD" even before I told him I had PTSD. I was really embarrassed and just gave up seizure treatment, assuming I was all better. I do think I had a severe seizure last May that left me bedridden with vertigo for over a month and caused me amnesia. But other than that, seizure-like experiences were out of the normal for me on the maximum dose of Topamax. I think I might still be getting seizures -- just very occasionally and usually small ones when they do happen. I will tell my psychiatrist if this keeps happening and go back on the max dosage of Topamax through him if need be. The neurologists scare me too much and I'd like to avoid dealing with them. They always doubt my seizures unless recent EEG shows seizure activity.