Posted by lostforwards on December 3, 2004, at 10:54:42
In reply to Anyone else have Brain Damage?, posted by GeishaGirl on December 3, 2004, at 10:18:15
Yes. At least it seems that way. The fact that when I'm taking a piss my left leg becomes very flexible and weak at the knee and if i turn around and look in the mirror soon after my right eye-brow is twitching isn't a good sign.
Also, my left arm isn't swinging. I get dystonia sometimes, but it's almost like it's slowed down dystonia. My head just feels like turning to the left or right and then slowly moving back. I get quicker jerks, like my head throwing itself back or twitching ever so slightly ....usually when I'm reading or using the computer, anything that requires a lot of thought. There's also my sterotypies, the tendancy to pick at my clothes unconsciously. Strange. I have seen a site that acknoledges the existance of tardive sterotypies.I think the leg weakness thing is a bit harder to proove. Maybe if it were bad enought to land me in a wheel chair....I didn't hit my god damn knee anywhere.
The fact that these are non-standard side-effects makes things worse.
As far as cognitive side-effects are concerned. I get very hazey sometimes. Like my mind goes totally blank. I never had this before. I also forget what I'm doing sometimes.
Since my tongue isn't going nuts and my face isn't twitching like mad this is all ignored though.
Oh well. #$@#%@#@!!
There should defintely be more research into these side-effects and better ways of diagnosing them.
poster:lostforwards
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