twistingoak
New User
Female
10 posts since December 4th, 2008
New User
Female
10 posts since December 4th, 2008
twistingoak's posts
Creepy - as a child I would have a feeling about 6 inches outside of my stomach and head. Now the feeling is 6 inches outside of my stomach and right hand
Its very uncomfortable and intense. I'd love to explain it further but even before I lost most of my collegiate vocabularly I'd yet to come across any words that would describe a feeling like th... more
You need to have two seizures to have epilepsy. Furthermore they must be Epileptical seizures - not all seizures are epileptical seizures. A non-epileptical seizure is a real seizure, but the level of electricity in the brain is different, and those typically only occur around other people (doesn't mean you are conciously bringing them on) - usuall... more
Tegretol should not be stopped immediately. really no medicine should unless you are on a dose so low that you aren't on a therapeutic level of it in the first place.
It took me 7 months to wean off the tegretol when I was in high school, but I don't remember what dose I was on to begin with - I'm sure it was pretty high.
Stopping any medicatio... more
My bf has a problem with his thyroid and he gets really sick, really easily. A slight cold can really make it hard for him to function and makes him angry. He missed about 40 percent of his college classes due to illness before he got on thyroid meds. Also the accepted "healthy range" of thyroid functioning in the US is much wider than what is rea... more
Unless you weren't wearing any swimbottom/undwear etc, I doubt it could have fallen out without you noticing it lying losing in your swim bottoms at the end of the day
Had I not been in school when I had my seizures on May 1, 1999, I would be dead today. I went into status epilepticus and was unconcious and not breathing. I was very lucky to be part of a school that put 7th and 8th graders in the high school, because had I been on an elementary time schedule I would have been home alone when that happened. And on... more
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