I had a seizure in my psychiatrist's office on Monday. I think the physical part lasted 10 seconds or so (I have SPS so I am aware of the seizure when it happens), but there was some confusion before and after. The actual physical part consisted of me stopping my response short, raising my left arm in the air and then making a strange very audible sound that repeated quickly from my mouth while my hand and arm shook. Now, I did not ask my psychiatrist about the seizure at the end of the session because I was in a bit of a daze. I did answer the rest of his questions fine, apparently. I then went to a bistro to eat lunch and have a beer and a Cosmopolitan. It wasn't until late that night that I began to wonder why in the heck he didn't say anything to me about it. It drove me crazy into the next day so I called him and left a message with that question. He returned my call leaving a message on my answering machine saying that he was unaware of any seizure. WTF? Now, I have been experiencing a hypomanic bipolar episode for over a week, but I wasn't THAT bad on Monday even though he did up one of my medications. So, what I want to ask is if it is possible that the whole physical part of the seizure I described could have happened in a second or two and somehow in my brain it registered as being a longer period of time? Kind of like shakes and vocal noise multiplied by 5. If this was not a seizure, then it had to have been a bipolar delusion. Either way, I want to know. The only thing is that I do not have a neurologist at this time. I fired him. I fired him because I didn't like anything he said and all he did was emphasize how he would call the Division of Motor Vehicles if I called him telling him I had a seizure. I will not have my driver's license suspended. I will not! Thank you Bipolar 1, Simple Partial Seizures, and migraines
Psychiatric meds:
Lithium ER (900 mg)*Tegretol XR (1400 mg)*Lamictal (100 mg)*Geodon (160 mg)*Navane (5 mg)*Seroquel XR (100 mg)*Klonopin (.5 mg)
Ativan 1 mg "as needed" (I rarely take it.)*Seroquel regular 50 mg "as needed" (Only if I'm getting elevated.)
Other meds:
Propranolol (40 mg)*Levothyroxine (150 mcg)
My mix is side effect friendly for me.
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