I have psuedo seizures. I was just diagnosised. Ok let me start off from the beginging. I am 17 yrs old turning 18 next month. I was diagnosised with seizures when I was in 6th grade. Yes everyone thought I was faking my seizures. One teacher even told my mom that my mom shouldnt lie about things like that just to make school easier for me. I was treated for my seizures and got medicine. I also went through getting humiliated from 6th to half of 8th grade. Thats when my parents split up. My mom, brother, and I moved to a different city and I had a grand mal.
Everyone was real nice after they found out. I was mocked after awile though. I felt like no one could get it through there head that I couldn’t help it. I was happy when I met my bestie Jaymee. She understood that if I could I wouldnt take meds for my JME(junior miclionic eplipsy). I went through the depression stage of epeilpsy and I went through the life is wonderful and I will become stronger faze.actuallly the I will become stronger after all this is going to be around for the rest of my life. So anyway, one day like last friday my hands started to shake, my mom and I didnt know what was going on. I finally calmed down and went to bed. The next day I was fine until my legs started to shake. Then yes I was fine when I went to bed.
Then Sunday night I started shaking violently. My mom rushed me to the hospital where they took an eeg and blood test and also I got tons of muscles relazants.even though I was heavely drugged with muscles relaxants I wouldnt stop twitching. The docs. told me to stop twitching and that I have psuedo seizures. The next day I had another violent attack and again was rushed, this time not so nice docs. told me to stop twitching and that I was faking. No one seemed to understand that I cant help it. I was wheelchaired to my moms truck by a nurse who said not so kindly "Can you please hurry up? I have other paients to get to and I cant stand out here with you." Trust me, I didnt want her standing out there with us either. I actually wanted my boyfriend to wheelchair me out to the truck so its not like I ASKED her to push me. I was very upset. That was the second time someone thought I was faking. Today(wednesday december 10 2006) I went to this guy who is able to help me. He knows I cant help it and that was my first glimpse of hope and happyness that a professional doc. person knows i’m not faking. I rather be in school then at home shaking and spazing. its horrible. I cant go anywhere without my mom freaking out about my health already and this just adds on to the list. I am happy there are people out there who understand though.
Pseudo seizures where explained to me like this.they are like a nervous or stressful twitch. your body is saying "boy do I have deal for you. you can get out of(whatever your doing inserts here) and I will get rid of the stress. but there is going to be some twitching and discomfert." yea thats not a deal for me. now I advise seeing a doc. but also dont expect your doc. to be the nicest person around then. I never was treated so rudely at a docs. office or in a hospital and i’ve been there plenty of times for numours things. if you would like to talk, plz add me to your myspace( https://myspace.com/viproomfortipsy) or you can msm(email) me back.