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02-02-2014, 09:50 PM | #11 | |||
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Pamela June, You have been through so much. It must have been so frightening and bewildering to have seizures as a child. You have my sympathy on all you have endured. Boy, doesn't it suck to deal with these health issues day in and day out. I don't know about you but, I roller coaster all over the place, sometimes I am doing well for weeks at a time and then, blam...something weird happens. 4 weeks ago my blood pressure skyrocketed. My doc said I was trying to endure pain with no meds and it was driving my pressure up so he said I was putting myself in a dangerous position and it was time to get back on my pain meds, so I did. I experience my seizures in the same way, weird smell and odd tastes, overly sensitive to light/sound/movement and mild hallucinating, and oddly this also happened to me for 2 days before I had the seizure. It never happened that way before. But for me, the actual seizure only lasted minutes but then I was disoriented for hours afterward. I also have a lot of health issues and always seem to have to juggle treatments. Like I said in the beginning of this post, I got off my meds just to see where I stood pain wise and side effects wise. I learned my pain is too intense to live meds free. But I have been off lyrica since Nov. For the last two weeks I have gone swimming in an indoor pool and then did a jacuzzi and then a sauna. I think that triggered the seizure....I also have not had one in a long time. I had a brain infection from Lyme Disease that did damage to my hippocampus and I have all these weird spots in my brain called UBO's that no one can explain to me. My seizures started in 1990 from the infection but when I get put on IV antibiotics it fixes the seizures and then I don't have then for many years. Anyway, now I have to find a neurologist to help sort this all out because it has been so long since I had one my doc retired! Thanks for sharing...it helps a lot just to know I am not alone in the kind of and presentation of my seizures. It is hard to explain to my family. I tell them it feels like I did mescaline or LSD( I am an old hippie from the 60,s!). Thanks for sharing....I hope you remain seizure free. I have been taking lorazepam, a tranquilizer, and it has helped tamp down the shaky jittery feeling. Take care of yourself, Diandra p.s. where do you live in Australia.? I live in Connecticut in the US...just an hour outside New York City. |
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02-02-2014, 09:51 PM | #12 | |||
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"Thanks for this!" says: | eva5667faliure (03-31-2014), PamelaJune (02-04-2014) |
02-02-2014, 10:08 PM | #13 | |||
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Hi Diandra
We all seemed to get the mother lode of pain and illness. Not just the one issue for us I'm afraid! I'm in Perth, I lived in Chula-vista San Diego and then Denver Colorado in my early 20s, in my 30th year I returned to the US and lived in Stamford Connecticut and traveled to New York every day to attend college. I loved it, I imagine now it couldn't be done, we just nodding hello strangers used to daily get on the train just after 7am and hold the ticket in our hand for the conductor to punch while we slept through our journey and the few stops we made on the way. Gosh to think that was 23 years ago this year. I used to travel a lot and have lived in a number of places. All came to a screeching halt following the car accident and the added changes it bought to my life. |
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02-03-2014, 08:49 AM | #14 | |||
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02-04-2014, 03:27 PM | #15 | |||
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@ Dr smith The lyrica cured a lady....and some others, with vulval nerve pain.
here is the post:"Three years ago I developed chronic burning pain which came on literally overnight. On a scale of 1 - 10 it was nearly always at a 9. After scouring the web, finding this website and seeing a gyni I knew I had vulvodynia. I was beside myself, was in the depths of depression and unable to work. My gyni prescribed lidocaine and amitryptoline, both of which didn't work. I also tried acupuncture but that wasn't much help either. I finally decided to see a private pain consultant. O my he was my saviour - finally I had found someone who could sympathise and understand my agony. He immediately put me on 150mg of lyrica, kept me on the amitryptoline and gave me a supply of tramadol for emergencies (I only ever needed to take them once). Within 48 hours the pain had all but gone. In my second week he increased me to 300mg and I had no pain at all. In total I was on 300mg lyrica and 50mg ami." source: http://vulvodyniasupport.forumotion....+down+the+line she was on them for 3 years other ladies have used it as well and they were able to have intercourse again (sigh) I'm desperate for it since amitriptyline works very well for my pain
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03-30-2014, 10:23 PM | #16 | ||
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The times that ive come off Lyrica, i experienced a 'cramp' in my brain. Like my brain is a muscle that is really tens.
An awkward feeling and close to unbaerable. Tonight i started to tamper off the meds again and took 82.5 % of my normal dosis. |
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03-31-2014, 01:54 AM | #17 | |||
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Dr. Zachary Smith Oh, the pain... THE PAIN... Dr. Smith is NOT a medical doctor. He was a character from LOST IN SPACE. All opinions expressed are my own. For medical advice/opinion, consult your doctor. |
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03-31-2014, 06:21 PM | #18 | ||
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I have read that Vulvodyna is concidered to be a form of peripheral neuropathy, and that is probably the reason this particular medication, Lyrica, has been effective in treating the pain symptoms of this cindition. The Prudendal nerve is the nerve of the vulva, and it terminates there, and it is therfor distal. So, typically peripheral neuropathy starts in distal parts such as feet and hands, and in this case the vulva.( I have read) Interesting also I read, there was a study of Vulvodyna patient where they used the QSAER test, and found that a large number of theese patients were positive in the sweat test therefore had autonomic neuropathy also suggesting small fiber neuropathy could be the cause of cronic vulva pain. See this web page of the study done by GYN Dr. Harris and Dr. Jessica Robinson: www.sohoobgyn/pdf/poster.pdp Last edited by Synnove; 03-31-2014 at 07:38 PM. Reason: correction |
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experience smells and tastes before a seizure my Saraeve does also hers bleach she has been through the wringer and still suffers seizures part of occipital lobe removed now has a VNS it's so sad so sad GOD BLESS
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11-13-2014, 11:34 AM | #20 | |||
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On the other hand never say never, I might actually be pain free one day on 0 medication, no one knows what's going to happen. I am weaning off Lyrica as well right now and getting the hypersensitivity back...yes nerve pain medications have a lot of side effects, but I am still grateful they exist in the first place. But I HAVE seen some post that they were on Lyrica for 6 months or more only to be able to wean off it and have a normal life again (no more pain)...is remission a better word? There was also an isolated case of another lady being pain free from pudendal neuralgia after a series of nerve blocks...
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