I went to see the Neurologist yesterday and made him laugh up his sleeve. This was because I mentioned the seizures/black outs I had were due to extenuation circumstances. One being that last year's ending was stressful and that murder could have been committed. I think he covered his smile to hide that fact that he has a sense of humour. No actually it was to hide the fact that maybe he understood and did not wish his thoughts to be noted. Anyway, he confirmed that I could increase current medication up to as much as 400mg twice daily. I thought this was what he said last time we met even though everyone else was adamant that it was 400mg a day. He also said he would inform my GP of this in order that she does not phone me up to question about it. I had to fob her off last time, about the increase of 50mg, because she only had a note of increases up to 400mg daily and not twice daily.
It is obvious that the brain is a creature of habit and my Neurologist again pointed out that any sort of blip or indeed black out should be remedied immediately with a dose increase.
Presumably as the brain has been used to seizures for 43 years it is a hard habit for it to break and a habit it could soon get back into. Therefore thia has to be nipped in the bud straight away.
I am not sure how long it would take to completely re-train a brain but hopefully it will be soon. It had after all been fully out of seizure habit for over two years now and should have lost touch with its penchance for seizures. Well that is how I interpret it.
However, the blip last night was just a slight feeling that something might or could occur and in order to stop the brain deciding to allow into existence a further increase has occurred.
