![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneMedical stuff beneath cut!
Some of you know that I have Essential Tremors. Basically what that is is that sometimes my arm will start shaking and it won’t stop. Not unlike a facial tick. Well, it started for me Tuesday. And continued into Wednesday AM. I saw a doctor Wednesday and she prescribed something which I can’t remember, but basically it’s an anti-seizure medication. For seizures, the indicated dose starts at 100-150mg x3 daily, I was taking 50mg x1. So it shouldn’t be a problem and I shouldn’t have any series side effects with that dose, right?
BIG problems Thursday morning! I took it when I got home Wednesday night, and Thursday morning when I got up, it felt like I’d gained 100 lbs and that my head was at least two sizes too large. My coordination was not good, driving was out of the question, so I had breakfast and went back to bed. AND I was still shaking.
After another three or so hours of sleep, got up, still shaking, a little more clear-headed. I DID NOT take a second dose of the drug! Russet took me to school and a friend of mine brought me back home, I blew off work. Fortunately the full-timer works until 9pm, so they were only without an aide for an hour max. I was probably good enough to drive home after class, but that was beside the point.
I had a follow-up appointment today at 11am. Still shaking. Picture, if you will, flexing one of your arms for 72 hours. Every waking minute. That’s about what I have going on. Ignoring the extreme wait (they started doing flu shots and it slowed down what is already a slow medical practice), I get another prescription and a suggestion for me to research another drug. This prescription should be milder in terms of side effects, and I have something resembling a weekend to try it with.
Two pieces of valuable information were passed. It was suggested that one possible cause would be a tumor on a nerve in my arm (not that this would be a good thing). I tend to discount that as a possibility as I sometimes will have both arms twitching and sometimes my entire upper body. Another thing was that we all know that negative emotions and stress can cause bad things to happen to our bodies. I had totally discounted the concept of POSITIVE emotions and stress affecting us. Sunday/Monday I was finishing up two photo assignments (mounting slides) which were turned in Tuesday (got an A on both of em! Go, me!) and I’m enjoying Photoshop, though it is a difficult class. So that’s another piece of information. Perhaps I should be more active in pursuing Zen meditations to even things out. Normally I’m a pretty even-keel guy, perhaps that’s more of a façade that I view myself through.
*sigh*
(Yes, it takes a couple of weeks for brain drugs to be effective and the side-effects may go down in that time. I can’t afford two weeks of no school and no work. That drug was an unacceptable solution, we’ll see what happens next.)
Some of you know that I have Essential Tremors. Basically what that is is that sometimes my arm will start shaking and it won’t stop. Not unlike a facial tick. Well, it started for me Tuesday. And continued into Wednesday AM. I saw a doctor Wednesday and she prescribed something which I can’t remember, but basically it’s an anti-seizure medication. For seizures, the indicated dose starts at 100-150mg x3 daily, I was taking 50mg x1. So it shouldn’t be a problem and I shouldn’t have any series side effects with that dose, right?
BIG problems Thursday morning! I took it when I got home Wednesday night, and Thursday morning when I got up, it felt like I’d gained 100 lbs and that my head was at least two sizes too large. My coordination was not good, driving was out of the question, so I had breakfast and went back to bed. AND I was still shaking.
After another three or so hours of sleep, got up, still shaking, a little more clear-headed. I DID NOT take a second dose of the drug! Russet took me to school and a friend of mine brought me back home, I blew off work. Fortunately the full-timer works until 9pm, so they were only without an aide for an hour max. I was probably good enough to drive home after class, but that was beside the point.
I had a follow-up appointment today at 11am. Still shaking. Picture, if you will, flexing one of your arms for 72 hours. Every waking minute. That’s about what I have going on. Ignoring the extreme wait (they started doing flu shots and it slowed down what is already a slow medical practice), I get another prescription and a suggestion for me to research another drug. This prescription should be milder in terms of side effects, and I have something resembling a weekend to try it with.
Two pieces of valuable information were passed. It was suggested that one possible cause would be a tumor on a nerve in my arm (not that this would be a good thing). I tend to discount that as a possibility as I sometimes will have both arms twitching and sometimes my entire upper body. Another thing was that we all know that negative emotions and stress can cause bad things to happen to our bodies. I had totally discounted the concept of POSITIVE emotions and stress affecting us. Sunday/Monday I was finishing up two photo assignments (mounting slides) which were turned in Tuesday (got an A on both of em! Go, me!) and I’m enjoying Photoshop, though it is a difficult class. So that’s another piece of information. Perhaps I should be more active in pursuing Zen meditations to even things out. Normally I’m a pretty even-keel guy, perhaps that’s more of a façade that I view myself through.
*sigh*
(Yes, it takes a couple of weeks for brain drugs to be effective and the side-effects may go down in that time. I can’t afford two weeks of no school and no work. That drug was an unacceptable solution, we’ll see what happens next.)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-10-07 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-07 04:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-07 04:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-07 04:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-08 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-08 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-08 09:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-10 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-10 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-10 06:49 pm (UTC)