Had excaberation this past Friday that landed me in the ER. I blacked out, plain and simple.
Very vague recollection of events of the night...recall being very, very agitated just prior to the 'event'. Headachy too. I recall coming out of the bathroom (an attempt to remove myself from being a ***** to family members and had intentions of readying for bed when...) and asking for help, felt discombulated from my body, my body felt like jelly and my 16 yr old said I used the wording I felt like I was drunk and unable to stand up or keep balance.
Two of my kids and husband (this is now all heresay as I don't recall but some sensations or tiny bits of but other than this being retold to me, clueless) but I was sat in chair where my eyes rolled to the back of my head several times. My BP was taken and I was carried to the car and brought to the ER. There drs performed CTscn (I recall hearing the word bump and later hubby said I was being told the gurny was going over the door jamb), had EKG and lots of blood work. (all clear including LYME but still waiting on maleria -??).
I recall being able to move my body from gurny onto bed for ctscn but it was as though I was above my body watching this, surreal... Long story short, by 1:30 am (this all began before 10pm at home) I was alert and coherent with very little memory of how I arrived to be in ER, etc. Given steriods and fluids and sent home with directive to contact a MS specialist, not just a neurologist.
My inquiry right now....why do I feel so agitated? Why am I feeling, for lack of better word, so *****y. Also extremely exhausted (this was my very first MS marker back in '06 and I've learned to cope with my exhaustion and supplement with 200 mg of provigal as needed to get through a work day).
There are other little symptoms going on...the swoosh, swoosh feeling (and sound) in my head, the heavy clumsy feelings. But the agitation is killing me and my family, they're trying to be empathatic but I have no tolerance or patience for them (this is not the first time I've had this type of sx but I'm feeling validated that I've been upgraded from "Demylenation Disease to there are the words, the actual words "MS Excacberation" on my discharge paperwork.
Validation, yay. But any others get this feeling or should I attribute this to my thyroid or my menopause (on HRTs)? Just plain sucks to be around me... I hope I didn't crowd my sentences either. I'm working very hard at trying to spell correctly and word my sentences so they make sense because they are not coming off my fingers that way today (brain, meet fingers and learn to work together please!)
Very vague recollection of events of the night...recall being very, very agitated just prior to the 'event'. Headachy too. I recall coming out of the bathroom (an attempt to remove myself from being a ***** to family members and had intentions of readying for bed when...) and asking for help, felt discombulated from my body, my body felt like jelly and my 16 yr old said I used the wording I felt like I was drunk and unable to stand up or keep balance.
Two of my kids and husband (this is now all heresay as I don't recall but some sensations or tiny bits of but other than this being retold to me, clueless) but I was sat in chair where my eyes rolled to the back of my head several times. My BP was taken and I was carried to the car and brought to the ER. There drs performed CTscn (I recall hearing the word bump and later hubby said I was being told the gurny was going over the door jamb), had EKG and lots of blood work. (all clear including LYME but still waiting on maleria -??).
I recall being able to move my body from gurny onto bed for ctscn but it was as though I was above my body watching this, surreal... Long story short, by 1:30 am (this all began before 10pm at home) I was alert and coherent with very little memory of how I arrived to be in ER, etc. Given steriods and fluids and sent home with directive to contact a MS specialist, not just a neurologist.
My inquiry right now....why do I feel so agitated? Why am I feeling, for lack of better word, so *****y. Also extremely exhausted (this was my very first MS marker back in '06 and I've learned to cope with my exhaustion and supplement with 200 mg of provigal as needed to get through a work day).
There are other little symptoms going on...the swoosh, swoosh feeling (and sound) in my head, the heavy clumsy feelings. But the agitation is killing me and my family, they're trying to be empathatic but I have no tolerance or patience for them (this is not the first time I've had this type of sx but I'm feeling validated that I've been upgraded from "Demylenation Disease to there are the words, the actual words "MS Excacberation" on my discharge paperwork.
Validation, yay. But any others get this feeling or should I attribute this to my thyroid or my menopause (on HRTs)? Just plain sucks to be around me... I hope I didn't crowd my sentences either. I'm working very hard at trying to spell correctly and word my sentences so they make sense because they are not coming off my fingers that way today (brain, meet fingers and learn to work together please!)
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