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FETCHER. · 07-21-2013, 03:25 PM

Completely sucks that your seizures ruined your Saturday night

. I was gonna come in here boasting of my rakeyness (the inability to go home) but now I just feel like an ******* haha.

Did you do anything not alcohol related instead?

Mojo · 07-21-2013, 03:30 PM

Not really. Saturday I was meant to be going to a mates house for a BBQ, which I was also missing an engagement dinner to go to, and so instead I ended up staying home, cooking a curry, and watching The Watch and the Southern Rock night on BBC4.

Rock & roll.

Unknown Soldier · 07-21-2013, 04:15 PM

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Thats the question.

There seems to be no trigger I or a doctor can nail down for it. There never has been. Around a year or 18 months ago my doctor said he was wondering if what I was having these days might not be more blackouts than seizures. They definitely were seizures at one time, but he's thinking that may not be the case and without getting into it, I can at least see why he may be wondering.

I'm not sure what sounds worse blackouts or seizures. I'm guessing you're not allowed to drive or do anything that requires you to be in complete control.

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Anyway, he told me that as seen as I can feel a seizure about to occur (I can now, but thats another recent change in my behaviour) he asked me to lie down whenever I can and he says that if that stops it from happening, we could be looking more at blackouts, and blackouts could be stress and blood pressure related.

I'm guessing you've looked at diet, alcohol consumption and your levels of stress. Exercise can actually be a good remedy for these things if they are stress related.

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Certain things about my behaviour, and changes in my behaviour, would suggest that he could be right. However I had this seizure yesterday when I was already lying down, and far from stressed about anything.

I wouldn't imagine lying down to be the solution anyway, it's just something that you've been doing and has worked but now you've found that it doesn't work.

If I were you, I actually work up a log of when these seizures/blackouts occur. The day, the time, the place and how you were feeling prior, what you'd eaten and drunk that day etc. I know this sounds like hard work, but self-help in these type of things can reap dividends

Justthefacts · 07-22-2013, 11:20 PM

Seven more days till New York city. Prepare for a plethora of pictures of me soaking it all in.

Circe · 07-23-2013, 02:00 AM

So our heatwave seems to have been replaced with torrential lightning storms. This probably isn't a good time to mention that I'm kind of terrified of lightning...

PoorOldPo · 07-23-2013, 02:14 AM

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So our heatwave seems to have been replaced with torrential lightning storms. This probably isn't a good time to mention that I'm kind of terrified of lightning...

We got lightning over here last night as well. It has been incessantly sunny for the past four weeks. Weather reports predict that August is going to be even hotter for us than July though. At one stage we were "hotter than Spain" haha.

FETCHER. · 07-23-2013, 04:00 AM

**** YEA LIGHTNING. I'm smoking doobies listening to the thunder and soaking in the beauty of lightning. Fuucking love this.

djchameleon · 07-23-2013, 07:51 AM

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**** YEA LIGHTNING. I'm smoking doobies listening to the thunder and soaking in the beauty of lightning. Fuucking love this.

I'm jealous!

Not of the smoking up part but everything else.

FETCHER. · 07-23-2013, 07:53 AM

Aww the storm was much needed, we've had about a month solid of ROASTING weather and the air became really clammy and hot especially at night, it has kinda perked up now though and is gettin sunny again!

Apparently yesterday was the hottest day here since 2006!!

djchameleon · 07-23-2013, 07:55 AM

Geez, I feel you on that. We only had one heatwave week but it's been down pouring since last night and I love it. No where near thunderstorm type of rain but the rain helped cool us down though.

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Circe Blunt After Blunt After Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: In a French-ass restaurant Posts: 337	So our heatwave seems to have been replaced with torrential lightning storms. This probably isn't a good time to mention that I'm kind of terrified of lightning...