Sorry I haven’t updated much lately!
Life has been very busy and I’ve been focusing on my job. All last week I had a cold and had to stop working out for a while. And of course, stuck with my grumpy old cold, I cheated on my diet quite a bit and ate out a lot so I’ve been having quite a few headaches lately. I’ve already blown through most of my immitrex and it’s only March 3rd.
But I guess the one good thing about all of this is that it does prove how important food is to my headache problem. I mean I showed myself that I DEFINITELY can’t handle pizza, or regular diet coke, or cheeseburgers even at nice restaurants.
So back I go to the grind. Organic only, no cheese, and no MSG. Not even a little.
On a completely different note, something totally weird happened last night. In addition to my awesome migraine problem I also have Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, which I never really talk about since it’s not nearly as much of a presence in my life as the migraines. I have a seizure (very mild ones) every 3 months or so. They’re so mild, if it ever happens around people, they usually don’t know it’s happening. But last night the one I had was pretty bad.
I got the deja-vu, the queazy stomach, the incredible vertigo, and the mixed up emotions like I always do– but suddenly I couldn’t move! My body had gone completely rigid and it was the most awful feeling! I tried to say my boyfriend’s name, since he was in the next room, but couldn’t talk- that was even WEIRDER. I remember sitting there thinking– “Okay this is going on way too long. They don’t usually last this long.”. Because I hate the way it feels. It feels like your body is feeling G-forces when it’s not. And then just suddenly, it all stopped. And I saw a little hot-air balloon floating around the room clear as day. So I thought, great. I’m having hallucinations now too.
I posted my experience on Yahoo Answers- seeing if anyone could tell me at least the type of seizure it was. (I usually have partial simple seizures) and everyone called me crazy!
Thank god for the epilepsy.com people. This site clarified that I’m still having simple partial seizures, just a more advanced form. If it happens again I might go back to my doctor. I can’t be locking up and freaking out at the office or something.
Motor seizures:
These cause a change in muscle activity. For example, a person may have abnormal movements such as jerking of a finger or stiffening of part of the body. These movements may spread, either staying on one side of the body (opposite the affected area of the brain) or extending to both sides. Other examples are weakness, which can even affect speech, and coordinated actions such as laughter or automatic hand movements. The person may or may not be aware of these movements.
Psychic seizures:
>These seizures change how people think, feel, or experience things. They may have problems with memory, garbled speech, an inability to find the right word, or trouble understanding spoken or written language. They may suddenly feel emotions like fear, depression, or happiness with no outside reason. Some may feel as though they are outside their body or may have feelings of déja vu (“I’ve been through this before”) or jamais vu (“This is new to me”— even though the setting is really familiar).
What are they like?
They are remarkably different from person to person, depending on the part of the brain where they begin. The one thing they all have in common is that the person remains alert and can remember what happens. Here are a couple of experiences:
- “I almost enjoy them. The feeling of déja vu, as if I’ve lived through this moment and I even know what’s going to be said next. Everything seems brighter and more alive.”
- “It is a pressure that starts in my stomach, then rises to my chest and throat. When it reaches my chest, I smell an unpleasant odor of something burnt. At the same time I feel anxious.”
Sometimes the seizure activity spreads to other parts of the brain, so another type of seizure follows the simple partial seizure. This can be a complex partial seizure or a secondarily generalized seizure.
