No News

Well, just a quick update. Not posted for a while as you might see but I am still here and well. My Lamotrigine has been increased from 150mg twice a day to 175 twice a day to see if they will help my seizures. Give that a month and if no change to increase that to 200mg twice a day, failing that, they will be reduced and another tablet introduced.

The only news I got at present is that on Sunday 9th April 2017 I had two seizures, both were light but one at 4pm and one at 9pm. Seemed to be no link but may have missed a dose of tablets as I get confused some days or busy and forget. This shouldn’t be a problem because the oncology specialist nurse say that the change won’t affect you that quick. It would be interesting to know how many have this issue.

Luckily I get free tablets but that must be costing the NHS a fortune!

I’m on yearly MRI scans now so nothing to report on that front, hope you all are doing well and bye for now.

 

To Present Day

After having surgery I was advised that there are a number of things that could happened and I would need MRI scans every 3 months and reviews on medication every 6 months. The things that could happen are…

• Become seizure free
• Seizures could be slight
• Seizures could be worse due to scaring on brain

Luckily up to now I have only had slight seizures every so often especially if I miss a dose of medication or take it too late.  The seizures started off very slight and you wouldn’t know I was having one.  These have started getting stronger but nowhere near as bad as they was and they do not affect what I am doing at the time I have them.

At the moment my flicker to left and I may move my head but I am able to talk and do things while it is happening, usually I will try to hide it as it passes in a about 10 seconds.

Due to the fact that in the past I have had grand mal seizures I am unable to get my driving license back until I am a year free of minor seizures. It does have benefits as I can now be taxied everywhere and can drink :).

For now life will continue as it has before but “Life moves pretty fast. I do stop and look around once in a while, as I don’t want to miss it.” 😉

Hope you enjoyed this rather long winded true story, I will update it as things happen until the time comes when I can’t.

Other blogs will be information that might be of help so for now that’s it and have a listen to this…

Life without brian.

15th Sept 2015 – A meeting for the last MRI scan to see how the first year of recovery has been went well and there has been no growth.

Next meeting will be March 2016 to discuss the next scan.