Hello,

My wife and I recently learned she has a Aracnoid cyst after she had a siezurea and she was run to hospital. As we are on low income state insurance we only get one choice for a doctor who literally is so overbooked it took us a year to see her after the initial tests were done. Once we saw her we explained my wife her problems that we thought were relevant:

Random slurred speech
Occasional disorientation and loss of equilibrium
Sometimes feeling drunk (obviously without drinking)
hand tremors
Migraines
depression
tired and run down feeling

The neurologist (although she seems very compitent in her field) seemed more concerned about the DMV block that was put on my wifes drivers license than these issues. (Which I must admit my wife would love to have removed). My wife was given a drug to prevent the siezures, which it has. It has not however done anything for any of the other issues. (6 months later) When we told the neurologist this, she again seemed more interested in making sure there were no siezures and getting my wifes license back.

Recently, over the course of the last 3 or 4 weeks my wife has become very aggressive. She seems to pick fights with just about everyone and all of our friends can see the difference. I demanded to talk to our neurologist and told her about the incident and she told me that mental disorders are not caused by cysts and that this was in my wifes head.

Perhaps since she is still having all the above listed symptoms she is just for more easily aggitated, but it appears to me that the issues are getting worse, not better.



We have another doctors appointment coming up. I plan to go in guns blazing and demand these other symptoms be considered. However, any advice, information, or just general suggestions would be welcome.

Anyone who can point me in the right directions would receive my thanks.

James

I'm glad you're here, James, & I hope your wife also checks out the forums. I searched thru the posts & could find only one reference to Arachnid cyst:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...=Arachnid+cyst

As I read your post, tho, I am wondering about the timeline. You didn't see this current doctor for a year after the seizure. I'm guessing tho that your wife was put on medication while in hospital & has been on it since discharge. If that's the case, these problems you've noticed could be (all or in part) side effects of the medication.

But you say, "My wife was given a drug to prevent the siezures, which it has. It has not however done anything for any of the other issues. (6 months later) When we told the neurologist this, she again seemed more interested in making sure there were no siezures and getting my wifes license back."

So I'm not clear: Were these other symptoms present before your wife was taking the anti-seizure medication?

Please don't feel like I'm grilling you --you've got a complicated situation going & it's wonderful that you're here for your wife, seeking help.

There's a Search tab on the colored bar near the top of this page (just right of center), which you can use to search for posts & threads on each of the symptoms you've listed.

As for your next visit, you might want to holster those guns & take a cooler approach. Make a list of your concerns. Maybe ask whether the current medication could be causing the symptoms or making them worse. Maybe ask her straight out why she thinks the driver's license is more important than quality of life.

Can you get a referral from the neurologist to a psychiatrist? Apparently that's who she thinks needs to deal with the aggression you've seen developing, if she's attributed it to "mental disorders."

Others will be by. Feel free to drop into any of the forums, ask questions, make yourself at home. Keep asking questions.

Hello and welcome to NeuroTalk. Happy to see you have come, let us know if we can be of any help. Feel free to jump in any where. There are great number of fellow members here to assist as possible. Also check out there following forum dealing with seizures.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum11.html

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Darlene