Posted by brender on January 19, 2004, at 19:40:15
Hi,
Help! Does anyone have experience with petite mal seizures, or know what the following could be?I'm bipolar with ADD. I take lithium, neurontin, adderall. My doctor just upped my adderall (but spread it out over the day) and added wellbutrin XL 300mg. I was doing OK for the first few days--some hours of clarity but some crashes and fogginess. But then last night, I was writing, and my brain just slowed down dramatically. I couldn't really understand what I'd just written, because I couldn't remember from one word to the next. It just kept getting slower and foggier. This is all similar to what happens when I get too much dopamine (I have that paradoxical ADD thing), like when I accidentally take my meds twice. But this was extreme. And my brain started feeling stuffy(?) and I felt really stoned. And then I started having the sensation that my brain was just stopping altogether, like the thoughts were on a conveyor belt going by very slowly and then it froze...and I was in suspended animation for a while...and then it spluttered back to life, but I'd lost my train of thought. Like "Where is that other............shoe. Huh? What about a shoe? Oh yeah..."
It was happening every few minutes. It's starting to happen tonight again. Could someone help me figure this out? I called my doctor, but he never calls back.
Could this be a seizure, a side effect, or a sign of dopamine toxicity?
poster:brender
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