Bleh (seizures)

Had another seizure Monday night--the first one since I've been on Keppra, and about a year and a half since my last one. I was in the bathroom, sitting down (on the toilet--the only seat next to the sink) to drain out a blood blister I got on my finger from catching my knuckle in the window sash. For those of you who don't know, there's a huge window next to the toilet . . . I was lucky I didn't go straight back, through the glass, and sever something important in my neck on jagged shards. Scary.

Two new seizure effects this time:

1. Woke up with both my arms tucked against my torso, fists under my chin (this is called "tonic" contraction). The first known observance of this particular action was during my tilt-table test. I wonder if it's significant that I came to still tucked up like that.

2. Came to dripping with sweat--an all-new experience, boys and girls, and one I hope to never have repeated. Even field-working 15+ hours in July in North Carolina I've never actually had water pouring down my skin like that. Yuck! I wasn't sweating before I went out, stopped sweating as soon as I came to, but too tired to do anything but sit there pushed up against the corner on my left shoulder and hope for more breeze to blow through the 3" window opening to help cool me down. What in the hell happened that now I'm sweating with a seizure??

As usual it took a little while to recooperate--those things really wipe you out. Usually I'm okay after 1/2 hour or so, at least enough to move around without assistance. The bad ones keep me out. This one I recovered from fairly quickly, but I was wretchedly tired for the rest of the evening (which is also typical), but the next morning I was still tired, had the shakes and sweats that eating breakfast didn't cure . . . and thus I earned myself a trip to the emergency room.

We don't know what happened. I think the seizure went into a new part of my brain and seriously messed it up for a while. I had high (for me) BP and normal blood sugar when the EMTs picked me up that morning, I practically slept the entire time I was in the hospital, I ate the entire tray of food they brought me for lunch, and just after my meal they tested my blood sugar again . . . now low (but just under normal) and with lower-than-normal BP. They discharged me. With low blood sugar directly after a meal. And BP 96/56.

My neurologist doesn't seem to be concerned. TWO DAYS of physiological weirdness, brought on by this seizure, and he says (via the nurse pract'r) it was probably a one-time thing but to call back if I have another seizure with sweats.

I'm still tired today.

I hate doctors.