Friday, July 26, 2013

dizzy and brain fog and seizures...oh my!

So if my life hasn't been hectic enough lately between work, flares, and trying to go back to school. The seizures have decided to show their ugly faces again. I haven't had one since March and I thought I was doing good. Yesterday I woke up with really bad brain fog. I kept catching myself doing things that made no sense at all such as thing to put on two completely different shoes. I also had trouble remembering anything. And I was super dizzy I knew something was up but was hoping it was just brain fog.
Fast forward to later that evening at work. I start feeling really weird like I was shaking but when I looked I wasn't. Then I felt like I was drunk and felt really bad. I tried to put on a happy face a pretend nothing was wrong while secretly I was afraid that I was going to black out. My mom happened to go in and as soon as she saw me she knew exactly what was happening so she stuck around for awhile to make sure I was ok. I have what they call simple partial seizures. I have fallen a few times from them but the majority of the time I get a shaky arm or leg, or weird sensations. The one I had in March I was doing my hair and I started having a shaky feeling like my insides were shaking then I got really lightheaded. I told my sister that I needed to sit down. As I tried to sit down on the floor I fell over. She said I had told her something she couldn't understand then burst out crying for like 30 seconds, then I was fine. It scared her big time cause she had never been around when I've had one. 
Today I feel better besides being extremely exhausted, which is normal after I have one. So I am resting as much as I can before I have to go to work. I just hope that they stay away.