The Falling Oak - Learning How to Die
Copyright© 2018 by Darian Wolfe
Chapter 25: EEG Results And More
Wednesday I had an appointment with my neurologist. I would have updated sooner, but to be honest I came home exhausted then I was balls to the wall (for me, anyway) the next day trying to get done the things they wanted done as well as little necessities like paying my mortgage. Today I was able to put in almost a full 8 hours before I had to pull the plug (I was scheduled for overtime). I am still rather trashed so I am reusing a modified summary of the doctor’s appointment that I emailed a friend. I have to work tomorrow and I just don’t have the ass to type it again. So here it is:
The docs actually got off their ass and did some work this time. I don’t know if my complaining to the head of the entire neurology dept did anything, but they were digging deep this time around. The doctor even moved an appointment with another client to another doctor to spend more time with me.
They did more research into my records and ran more tests
Asked my wife and I much more detailed questions about symptoms, pain levels, triggers, and degradation of abilities, changes in my demeanor.
My EEG came back clean I am not suffering from seizures caused by any form of neural activity.
From what they can tell based on my symptoms is that I have been under such a high level of pain for so long that the pain along with the chaos that the illness has created in my life has created depression and a deep seated anxiety that expresses as the shaking. So anything that increases my migraine symptom’s pain increases the anxiety which in turn sets off the shakes so I meltdown. They have prescribed some new meds and taken some others away and have referred me to an actual Psychiatrist.
They said I can have my CBD back they only ask that I allow the new med to establish a symptom baseline first so we can tell the difference between the effects of the two which is reasonable.
They are referring me to a speech therapist as my speech is getting worse on a day to day basis. I was getting to the point that I was not wanting to even make the effort to speak at times.
They did write a doctor’s note for the days I exceeded FMLA even though they will not adjust the FMLA.
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