gskhaladon
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Hi!
My name is Paul and I am writing about my gf Michelle.
She has NO short term memory at all. Its like 50 first dates other than she has long term memories, she knows me, her son, her ex, her family, but the day before never existed.
In her mind its still early summer before she had two epileptic seizures in the same day. She is a lifelong tonic/clonic epileptic.
At the time of the seizures, she had been seizure free for 3 1/2 years. Due to 100s of falls in her life @ 6'1 (6'4+ in heels) she has a great deal of musculo/skeletal issues, nerve damage in her right wrist, and a nuerostimulator to control the pain in her ankles. She has been diagnosed with chronic regional pain syndrome.
So, in June she was on paxil 2.5mg, birth control, Tylenol PM, and 200mg of zonegran (on 16 years for seizures).
She had a minor surgery to replace the nuerostim in her spine for the ankle pain.
They gave her a muscle relaxer flexaril which led too..
She had two seizures and sprained her ankle during one. We think the flexaril caused the seizures as she has a sensitivity to nuerotin based drugs.
They added a short course of tiazadine, and then switched over to 0.5mg clonazapan 2x daily.
She ended up in the hospital with fluid in her lungs and had a thoracodomy and 2 chest tubes.
During recovery she was on 5mg oxycodone as needed, tapering off as August wore on.
Come mid August, she was physically doing better when we decided to go on vacation and after checking with her PCP and her neurologist I let her drive a bit and she nearly killed us. I got her off the road ASAP, and later I questioned her and she didn't remember driving at all. I'm like OMG, what? Backtracked and apparently she wasn't processing anything from short to long term memory. For the last two months she was mostly bed ridden from two surgeries, two seizures and fucked up on the oxycodone and sleeping a lot so I never asked questions like 'so what about that movie we saw last night', but mostly, are you hungry/cold/hot/need meds/etc?
So what is the prognosis for being able to process short term memory again? She has been off for 33 days and nothing has changed.
The doctors seem to know nothing about this. They have her seeing a 2nd neurologist, a clinical psychiatrist, a nuero-psychologist, and she had a CAT scan on Friday.
This is really scary, she's a bright 38 year old woman who basically spends the day in bed watching mindless TV because she cannot process memories. She does what I ask for chores and help around the house, but she cannot drive, work, or help in her own care, remember to take her medications etc.
Oh she is only on the paxil, birth control, and zonegran now. I also got her off the Tylenol PM and switched her to melotonin.
HELP!
~Paul
My name is Paul and I am writing about my gf Michelle.
She has NO short term memory at all. Its like 50 first dates other than she has long term memories, she knows me, her son, her ex, her family, but the day before never existed.
In her mind its still early summer before she had two epileptic seizures in the same day. She is a lifelong tonic/clonic epileptic.
At the time of the seizures, she had been seizure free for 3 1/2 years. Due to 100s of falls in her life @ 6'1 (6'4+ in heels) she has a great deal of musculo/skeletal issues, nerve damage in her right wrist, and a nuerostimulator to control the pain in her ankles. She has been diagnosed with chronic regional pain syndrome.
So, in June she was on paxil 2.5mg, birth control, Tylenol PM, and 200mg of zonegran (on 16 years for seizures).
She had a minor surgery to replace the nuerostim in her spine for the ankle pain.
They gave her a muscle relaxer flexaril which led too..
She had two seizures and sprained her ankle during one. We think the flexaril caused the seizures as she has a sensitivity to nuerotin based drugs.
They added a short course of tiazadine, and then switched over to 0.5mg clonazapan 2x daily.
She ended up in the hospital with fluid in her lungs and had a thoracodomy and 2 chest tubes.
During recovery she was on 5mg oxycodone as needed, tapering off as August wore on.
Come mid August, she was physically doing better when we decided to go on vacation and after checking with her PCP and her neurologist I let her drive a bit and she nearly killed us. I got her off the road ASAP, and later I questioned her and she didn't remember driving at all. I'm like OMG, what? Backtracked and apparently she wasn't processing anything from short to long term memory. For the last two months she was mostly bed ridden from two surgeries, two seizures and fucked up on the oxycodone and sleeping a lot so I never asked questions like 'so what about that movie we saw last night', but mostly, are you hungry/cold/hot/need meds/etc?
So what is the prognosis for being able to process short term memory again? She has been off for 33 days and nothing has changed.
The doctors seem to know nothing about this. They have her seeing a 2nd neurologist, a clinical psychiatrist, a nuero-psychologist, and she had a CAT scan on Friday.
This is really scary, she's a bright 38 year old woman who basically spends the day in bed watching mindless TV because she cannot process memories. She does what I ask for chores and help around the house, but she cannot drive, work, or help in her own care, remember to take her medications etc.
Oh she is only on the paxil, birth control, and zonegran now. I also got her off the Tylenol PM and switched her to melotonin.
HELP!
~Paul