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I was diagnosed with Epilepsy four years ago in Sophomore year of high school. After that, I was given Keppra, but I was given too high of a dose, so early Junior year, I had another episode. We found out my seizures are caused by sleep deprivation and that usually happens because of my high stress levels. For a while, everything was getting better, and I entered college. Freshman year, I had been hanging out with my friends for New Years Eve, and we were all drinking, staying up late, and I forgot to take my medicine the previous night and morning. I totaled my car after on the highway with two other people inside, that next day driving them back home because I had a seizure. I was stupid and immature. One of those people in the car is now my girlfriend. Sophmore year college, I was going to go on a trip to Cambodia that my school was offering and I was accepted for, and when I was getting my vaccines, the clinic had given me the wrong medicine and that caused a seizure, preventing me from going on the trip. After around a month and half later (yesterday), I had a random unexpected seizure. I believe I may have forgotten to take my medicine in the morning, so I suspect that to be the reason why I seized. I have horrible memory issues, so my gf thinks it may be something else, and that I did take my medicine in the morning. My mom and I don't really want to go to the neurologist because the appointment will just complicate my medical issues and we know that the medicine works. On top of this, it is Spring Fest, which means this entire week, everyone is on a drinking binge and partying. As much as I'm not really a party person, I feel like I'm missing out. I had been drinking in high school, and some of college, but other than that incident on New Years, nothing has happened because of drinking despite being told not to do it. I don't do it often at all, but when I have, I have spent doing it with my girlfriends, in our room. I also smoke marijuana, and this helps my sleep and stress so much, that I will be getting my medical card soon. Ever since my second seizure, I have been taking 1500 mg of Keppra twice a day.
So Reddit, if anyone can please give me any advice on to what to do so I don't feel like an outcast and depressed, as well as if I should meet with my neurologist because of yesterdays seizure, and your opinions on drinking, I would be very thankful.
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