Posted by hobbsster on February 4, 2007, at 7:46:25
In reply to Re: medication for epilepsy / anxiety and depressi, posted by med_empowered on January 28, 2007, at 2:43:19
Dear ed_uk, rovers95, polarbear, phillipa, blueberry and med-empowered
YOu have been friends in a very weird distant way. I am out of hospital now and literally just told my psychiatrist that "it was time". I had 4 grand mal seizures in 4 days. My body still aches... after one of the seizures (about 2 hours later) an EEG was done. According to the doctor there was NOTHING wrong, no indication whatsoever of any epilepsy.
I was diagnosed as a 12 year old and this was the first time ever I had a "clean" EEG... the psychiatrist is of the opinion that I have conversion disorder - due to traumatic childhood.
Presently I am on 800mg tegretol, 200 lamictin, 150 stressal (new drug apparently without any side-effects...), 300mg neurontin... I also take 2 mg ativan in the morning, 2mg in the afternoon and 4 mg in the evening and (just as a precaution 10 mg valium at night).Firstly, this disorder seems weird and i do not know how my brain was able to "fake" the previous EEG's.
YOu are right, I should get to a neurologist. The psychiatrist tried to "cure" me from valium addiction and now I am on Ativan - what's the diffs?
Sometimes I feel suicidal, sometimes I cry a lot (not like me to cry at all), my whole life seems like a fake.
And even if I had some traumas in my childhood is this sudden onset of "conversion disorder" possible? And all the preivous EEG's clearly indicating epilepsy??? I'm LOST.
Thanks for your messages
Hobbster
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