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Old 01-31-2013, 11:30 PM
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Default Seizures?

Anyone have seizures or any type as a complication of concussion or along with other PCS symptoms?

I am going to ANOTHER doctor tomorrow to try to figure this out.

Remember Mark when I said I wake gasping for air (no previous issues before injury) and with throwing ideas around it was brought up that it might be a sleep apnea thing... And apneas can cause seizures while sleeping... I did bring it up to my doctor but it was brushed aside.

Also brushed aside was this: the burnt smell episode was during sleep, about 2 weeks ago. Accompanied by incredible pain and confusion, and later that day extreme exhaustion, troubles getting actual words out (not slurring or stuttering like usual, but actual trouble making sounds), a metal taste in mouth, and a space of 3 hours just unaccounted for, dazed on my couch, felt like 5 minutes.

Ok well another episode last night... This time I woke with my jaw clenched so tight and my eyes open like saucers, drooling out the left side of my mouth... With incredible head and jaw pain. I sat up and couldn't open my mouth and I don't know how long it took before I finally recall getting some water to drink. Metal taste in throat. Had terrible time sleeping with the ache in my jaw. No prior history of jaw clenching or TMJ problems, jaw doesn't make funny sounds, just aches because of that feeling of having a "Charlie horse" cramp.

Today speech was the same as the burnt smell episode. Awful. Also suffered extreme muscular exhaustion so I didn't even get out of bed until 11am though I'd been awake for hours.

Not googling, and not particularly anxious about this. Just wondering if these kinds of episodes have ever happened to anyone here?

Btw I'm on "drug free" recovery thus far, just taking Tylenol.

I'd be glad if doctor would at least do a test but I suspect it will be described and discarded again. I keep living so it's obviously not going to kill me. Lol
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About it: October 26, 2012 I fell backward on an icy parking lot at work. I was on Workers Comp for 9 months. My PCS : everyday headaches became once in a while headaches, and neck pain became manageable. Still have occasional mild dizziness, sometimes fullness in the ears, convergence insufficiency, sequencing struggles, short term memory struggles, verbal processing delays. CT neg, MRI neg. Therapies: prism glasses, acupuncture, icing neck, resting, supplementing, Elavil 20mg at bedtime.

NEW: Completed 12 weeks of physical therapy and returned to work full time.

About me: I'm a marketing manager, a mom with a blended family and wife to a heart attack survivor. I believe my brain injury taught me more than it cost me. I'm grateful to still be me!
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