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I'd be fascinated, yes. I'd love to see how my brain reacts to different stimuli, and what that could tell me about my brain.
Why do you need to know? Preparing for some Rosa Klebb-esque torture sessions, are we?
You sound like Colonel Sun there!
It was the book that pushed me over.
Best of luck with the procedure.
Now I'm feeling bad about recommending that book to you, Thundy.
Not at all. just a few torture experiments, nothing too much. Besides, I am on a new book that is giving me some moral guidance. German book by the title Mein Kampf.
My paternal grandfather read the book pre-spoliers.
Yep. Sadly I never met him. A friend gave it to him and told him to read it as it explained all Hitler would do in the years ahead!
Ah...remind me to never let you get close to the man inside my head.
You mean this gentleman?
Fleming would have loved that fact and would have included it in a Bond novel I'm sure.
Narrative
At approximately 12:20 AM C.D.T. on Friday, 29 September 2017, I had a third seizure. I had taken my dose of Keppra about 10 minutes earlier, at about exactly twelve hours apart from that morning as I always have done. I was trying to go to the bathroom with my dad when I first noticed what, at the time, I described to dad as an “echo” in my head. My sense of hearing seemed sharper than normal, that is. Accompanied by this was a sense of scrambled information in the right side of my head. One moment, I was thinking about one song, the next it was completely different song. My thoughts seemed to be racing a mile a minute. I also had a mental picture of the neurons firing in my brain, like the solar flares on the surface of the sun. I do not recall, but before the description of the “echo” I must have said something along the lines of “peeing in my head” because, in subsequent conversations with dad he stated that he made a joke about peeing on my head. I was having trouble going to the bathroom. Dad has since said that the description of the “echo” was pretty much the last thing I said to him before the full seizure manifested itself. I had also wondered aloud shortly before beginning to convulse if the “echo” was on the side of my brain that had the irritation and if that had anything to do with a seizure starting. Then my ears started ringing in much the same way as tinnitus. I must have thought “uh-oh” because I asked my dad if he recalled me saying anything like that and he replied in the negative. As the convulsions began, my dad reports that I turned my head to the extreme right and my eyes also went in that same direction. I didn’t hear it but my dad must have called for my mom to come into the bathroom as I went into convulsions. He confirmed this fact later saying that he called for her almost immediately after I turned my head.
My symptoms, together with the convulsions were the following:
• Looking to the extreme right, head turned as well as the eyes and part of the body, as if being pulled
• Slight shaking jerks (a strong quiver)
• Right arm in a contracted position
• Left arm stretched across my body, touching the right shoulder
• Chattering teeth towards the end of the seizure
• Garbled and incoherent speech shortly before onset
• Possible grunts during the convulsions, like a skipping DVD*
As I was convulsing, my dad put his hand on my chest in order to prevent me from falling out of my chair. I didn’t pitch forward, but he was concerned nonetheless. My mom stood in the doorway to the bathroom cradling my head in a hugging type gesture as I came out of it and became coherent again. By both my dad’s and my estimates, the seizure lasted for just less than a minute, but longer than 30 seconds.
Questions
1. Is there possible interference from the other pills I take working against the Keppra?
2. All three of the seizures, I have turned to the extreme right. Is there a reason?
3. How come, if the dosage is said to be sufficient enough, I would have another?
4. Is the correct “therapeutic” dosage different for everyone?
5. Do seizures interfere with lifespan?
6. Is there risk of possible brain damage after several of them?
7. Is there a way I can see what area of my brain the seizures are coming from?
8. What is “irritation”?
9. With the proper dosage of pills, will seizures stop completely?
10. Why don’t we know more about seizures than we do?
*This is unconfirmed, but I feel like I myself remember making the noises.