Getting Even Better

At least two and a half months, and no seizures! During the past month or two, I've even caught a couple colds without having any seizures - which Mom tells me is unprecedented.

I'm now halfway through my second to last week of taking Trileptal. It's an anticonvulsant I've been taking for several years, which proved better than what it was replacing. However, as I mentioned in the last post, I'm phasing out of it and into Vimpat, and the side effects are getting noticeably better. I've long been slow at finding words, but I and my family have noticed it speeding up.

Prayer request: in the past, when transitioning from one med to another, things have gone well until a couple weeks after stopping the old one. Then I have a short burst of seizures. Pray that that will not happen.

Success!!!...?

I'm now several weeks into taking two classes at LeTourneau from home. Atoms Nuclei and Particles is being taught by Dr. Ball, and Advanced Quantum Mechanics by Dr. DeBoer, and they're going pretty well. I'm also taking a class at PCC - Speech 1. It's also going well.

Now for the neurological news. The MRI was taken, (see previous post) but it didn't see much besides the expected scars from the grid. That slows plans of surgery, but that is no longer such a disappointment, because a final solution which we gave up on several years ago seems to be promising again - medication.
A couple months ago, Dr. Maleeva gave me a new prescription, called Vimpat. It has less interference with other prescriptions than most other second meds, and it has less side effects. It works in the same way as Trileptal, which I've been taking for a long time. So, I'm phasing out of that old medicine, which we think is causing most of the slowing down of my mind.
For about a year, I was having seizures in clusters, about 6-10 per cluster, clusters lasting 2-4 days, about one cluster a month. Since I started taking Vimpat, I have not had a single seizure. It's probably been more than two months now!