Author Topic: This shite year just keeps on giving! (Read 3180 times)

loadsabikes · « **on:** 02 July, 2016, 10:10:14 am »

Having just about got over my smashed up foot and Mrs Miggins is finally out of her neck collar we were looking forward to a more "normal" summer.
Wrong! I was just packing up at the boatyard last Tuesday, going home for a nice birthday dinner when I had a seizure.
Next thing I know, I am chatting to the HEMS doctor before being carted off to Northampton hospital.
The long and the short is, various cuts and grazes, strained back muscles and of course, the obligatory badly bitten tongue.
I am fed up with this shit!!

hellymedic · « **Reply #1 on:** 02 July, 2016, 10:15:23 am »

Oh pissbuggerfuck!

Hope that you get properly investigated and treated and that no sinister cause is found.

Bummer though!

Polar Bear · « **Reply #2 on:** 02 July, 2016, 10:16:44 am »

Bugger. You really do know how to put yourself through it.

Hope that it's not too serious and that you'll be right as rain soon.

T42 · « **Reply #3 on:** 02 July, 2016, 10:19:39 am »

Bloody hell. Birthday fucked up and all.

As Helly says, I hope they have a good look for causes and that it turns out to be trivial. GWS.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #4 on:** 02 July, 2016, 10:45:05 am »

Ouch. Sounds unpleasant. Best recoveries.

Canardly · « **Reply #5 on:** 02 July, 2016, 11:25:58 am »

They need to get you sorted out young man. Hope the rest of your summer is more pleasant.

chrisbainbridge · « **Reply #6 on:** 02 July, 2016, 11:45:38 am »

I am so sorry. Please get well soon

Auntie Helen · « **Reply #7 on:** 02 July, 2016, 11:48:31 am »

Yep, please get well soon!

We'd love to do some touring with you again soon!!

Ruthie · « **Reply #8 on:** 02 July, 2016, 03:42:11 pm »

Oh, no. Surely it's someone else's turn now?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #9 on:** 02 July, 2016, 09:52:10 pm »

GWS, Lab!

barakta · « **Reply #10 on:** 03 July, 2016, 02:52:58 pm »

Ugh, sorry to hear this Loadsabikes, similar happened to a colleague 3 years ago. She felt rubbish for some months but they never really found the cause and she's ok now. Hope it's not a sign of more seizures to come and the medics give you as good care as my colleague received.

loadsabikes · « **Reply #11 on:** 08 July, 2016, 03:11:11 pm »

Well, this is the third seizure in five and a half years.
Realistically, I think that it could be the end of driving for me.
The problem is, that I get no warning at all so that I think it would be irresponsible to continue.
I guess it is just a case of getting my head around the idea and adapting.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 July, 2016, 03:41:36 pm »

Quote from: loadsabikes on 08 July, 2016, 03:11:11 pm

Well, this is the third seizure in five and a half years.
Realistically, I think that it could be the end of driving for me.
The problem is, that I get no warning at all so that I think it would be irresponsible to continue.
I guess it is just a case of getting my head around the idea and adapting.

Has your doc not given you a ban already? They banned me on a suspected two (only when asleep) seizures. I'm still waiting for tests to confirm if those even were seizures.

Not getting any warning is very horrible.

ElyDave · « **Reply #13 on:** 08 July, 2016, 10:26:33 pm »

I think they have to be so many in such and such period of time? For me two hypos requiring assistance within one year and I'm screwed.

Really hope nothing serious, having a son who has had various degrees of intractable seizures all his life, I've seen the impact it can have

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #14 on:** 08 July, 2016, 11:09:24 pm »

If you are declared epileptic but then are clear of seizures for 3 years, you get your licence back. That's the rules I read.

loadsabikes · « **Reply #15 on:** 09 July, 2016, 08:48:51 am »

I have a consultation with the Neuro team in a couple of weeks and their decision will determine the "legal" position re driving.
My problem is not knowing what, if anything, triggers these episodes.

loadsabikes · « **Reply #16 on:** 25 July, 2016, 08:09:29 pm »

I had my neuro consultation today.
The upshot is that Because this is the third occurrence and that the interval between is decreasing,
They feel that I should try medication.
I guess that I will just have to give it a try and see how it makes me feel. $:-\$

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #17 on:** 26 July, 2016, 08:19:54 am »

I guess this is time to welcome you to the topiramate club

loadsabikes · « **Reply #18 on:** 02 August, 2016, 01:06:59 pm »

It is the Lamotrigine club.
it comes with a splendid array of potential side effects.
Can't wait $:-\$

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #19 on:** 02 August, 2016, 02:26:20 pm »

Ah, that one.

*do* keep an eye out for the rash. A member of my family was prescribed that drug and started to get the rash. Fortunately they had the sense of mind to ask if it were a problem, before it became a serious problem.