Posted by headachequeen on November 7, 2004, at 11:15:29
In reply to Re: can't stop thinking, posted by rainy on November 6, 2004, at 18:43:24
> Ms. Kat, it isn't racing thoughts--my parents didn't dub me Slow Poke at my mother's knee for nothing. I can't answer as I'd like becasue we have to go to a hoity toity concert tonight in about five minutes, but I'm a little concerned about you.
> What does sleep deprivation (and I understand your interest in staying awake) do to the odds of you having another seizure? Can your MD help you out here? You don't have to asnwer--I'm just thinking out loud. I know it seriously messes with manic depressive episodes. Also, from a lay person's pont of view, this fever buisness sound like there's something besides a strictly neuro phenomenon going on.
> And finally, while there was a tylenol scare here in the U.S. a few years ago, it seems to have died down and despite having spent five years or so swilling a lot more vodka than was good for any part of me, I still use it because I can't tolerate ASA.
> My liver function panels are always OK. So unless your medical people tell you, specificall otherwise, don't sweat the tylenol right now.
> Here's David, gotta go, hang in there and trust your body. Give up some of that famous control and let sleep come. It heals. If you have another seizure it's truly not the end of the world.
> easy for me to say
> all best wishes and good thoughts
> rainy
Ah, found the post you meant :)If it makes you feel better <g>, at some point last night or early this morning, I fell asleep despite my determination not to -- the med that my own doctor gave me Friday afternoon and the new one the neurologists gave me to go with the lessened tegretol and the unchanged topomax both have sleep inducing side effects and they worked it seemed... I feel asleep earlier then woke up and read for a while then the next thing I knew it was eight or so and I had slept really soundly... forgot to be afraid of what might happen..
as one of the people on one of the epilepsy boards... man are they technical there and not at all like here they have a long way to go to become human... pointed out, it can happen when I am awake too, so now I have to worry about being awake LOL...
seems I am not able to be as in control as much as I planned <GGG>I have the other med, forget what it is called and the neuro told me that if this new stuff does not make me sleep then take it.. but give this new one a day or two to do its stuff...
I am certainly in the same group as you are, rainy, and cannot tolerate ASA now... the things it does when mixed with Tegretol are downright terrifying...
was reading yesterday about two teenagers who died when given a pain patch... seems that one needs to have reached a level of tolerance to pain meds equivalent to at least Tylenol III before being given this patch and their doctors didn't know this...
made me think of my former neuro prescribing aspirin and then the tegretol... he should have known of its effects when mixed with tegretol...
and then I increased the effect by trying to eliminate this pain in my eye area with more aspirin...thanks for the info on tylenol... almost everything else seems to be asa based...
and I always found that tylenol worked...so back to my naps in the afternoon and evening and simply taking it from moment to moment...
I know it is going to happen again, but I hope it will not be on that extreme level...
I never want to put the other half of this partnership through that again...
he says I took thirty years off his life...
I suggested that if he quit smoking it might give him back fifteen...
seems it was not the time to say so....lol
kat
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