Posted by headachequeen on November 8, 2004, at 19:59:23
In reply to Big Stomachs and fat heads :(, posted by bridgey1128 on November 8, 2004, at 15:31:28
> Actually that is why I refused to take anything that would make me gain weight. I wouldn't BE happy fat. So it would be pointless for me to take a med that would cause a trigger. My weight has always been a depression trigger for me
Bridgey, recognising the triggers is so important... and you have them identified...
I learned so much when I was seeing the psychiatrist and the psycholdogist and the time I was in the hospital with the supposed breakdown that I now know was part of this epilepsy...
now it is of no help to me LOL
and the diagnosis of hypomania was totally off the mark too...
I begin to feel as if I don't belong here and may have to move and join the techno-weenies on the epilepsy boards...sigh
my so-called hypomania is another confused diagnosis -- I am not hypomanic at all. This is another manifestation of the weird type of epilepsy apparently. The psychiatrist could not figure out what was going on, so tagged me with a name he could understand.
I walk too fast and do everything imagineable too fast... I have to be told to slow down and various doctors thought it was a sign of depression;
I cannot sit still, instead I am forever tapping a foot or swinging a foot when my legs are crossed, or 'twiddling my thumbs', or some such thing, things that are inappropriate behaviours as they say...other manifestations...
and on it goes.
So many of the symptoms that were attached to other things are actually epileptic manifestations for lack of a better word. As my orthopaedist said today, 'looking back, it makes sense'.But I have learned that recocgnising those things that trigger your depressions or mood swings and acting upon them is vital. You obviously have that under control.
As for bruises and avoiding public reaction --
I had to go back to my GP's office today for a flu shot...
that meant a sleeveless shell so that no tight sleeves to make the site bruise... now that is a laugh as my arms and shoulders are so badly bruised it is wild to see...
I am in the habit since I came home of wearing long long sleeves and high collars and dark glasses... Greta Garbo and I are in competition.
I had to take off my jacket so the nurse could check BP and give me the shot, and anyone passing by the open door did a double take, believe me...
black and blue takes on a new meaning....at the orthopaedist's I was complaining about the gurneys in the ambulance and emergency at the two hospitals and he explained it was I who did the damage to myself... the thrashing around...
so I had to accept blame...
then told me that the bruising on my shoulders and arms was nothing compared with that on my back...
well I didn't want to know about it...but I had my first accupuncture treatment...
and it was nothing as I supposed...
he did sacrocranial massage for my head and neck and put my spine and so on into place, then did accupuncture for that pain in my eye area...
and NO PAIN....now I wonder if they can treat epilepsy with accupuncture...
and is there a treatment for weight????
it is amazing stuff and if I can quit eating with a few painless needles, here I go....kat who is obsessed with self-image and confesses it...
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