Prayer and Answers For Focal Seizures

I took Prozac and Celexia and that is what gave me my serotonin storm. It was pure hell for those two weeks and it also made me to pass out and also to conjure up some fantastic hallucinations that were pretty bizzare'

My wife needed some dental work actually a full mouth extraction due to long term blood pressure meds. A previous dentist nearly killed her giving her Mepraghan for what was a basic one tooth extraction. It made he hypothermic and induced a Coma. A few years later she needed the extractions but was terrified so she went to a shrink. He prescribed the Zoloft and Trazodone. She was on it maybe two months when Serotonin Syndrome hit.

She was highly agitated so I made an emergency appointment with her shrink. His remedy was up the Zoloft. By the time we got home she was seeing the devil. I took her to an ER. The doctor didn't do any blood work, ignored her history, and called the state to send her to a mental hospital. I found her slumped in her wheelchair in an exam room unconscious and a rentacop outside her door. I yelled get someone in here Stat. In walks the doctor and just stands there. I said what type of mental disorder causes this she has a coronary history help her. He just stood there. I said you stupid **** help her again he did nothing. My dad was there so I told him get the van to the entrance I'm getting her out of her.

I took her to a level one facility across town. She was still unconscious They worked on her immediately and got her conscious. They asked me what happened and I told the doctor. He immediately switched from being a doctor to being a patient dumper saying he was calling the state to commit her to a mental hospital. He too took no blood, no CT, no MRI. The state came and I told them she wasn't going anywhere. They agreed and admitted her to the hospital.

At first they took her off all meds but Ativan which was the only right thing they did. 48 hours later she was herself. In walks Dr Shrink who never saw her before. After a minute he says I agree with her shrink up the Zoloft. Nurse walks in next day at non and gives her the pill. By 1:00PM she was out of it talking out of her head. You'd think they would get a clue. Nope. Next day my dad was there and I left to go shower and get some rest. I stopped by the chapel and said a prayer then went home. I went online and typed in Zoloft +Trazodone +Adverse reactions and hat instant hits on Serotonin Syndrome.

I was careful to get a reliable and respected source and printed it. I called my dad and said I found the problem don't let them give her another pill.

I got back to the hospital and talked to the nursing supervisor for the floor I said read this. She glanced at it and shrugged. I said call the doctor {it was theirs not ours} this can be fatal. She said the house doctors can not be disturbed he will be here tomorrow. I said OK then these are my orders and you must comply. No pills but Xanax or Ativan non whatsoever without my permission.

Next morning their house doctor came in madder than a hornet calling me out to the hall and asked why did you stop our orders. I said just read this paper. He glanced at it and said that is pure rubbish. I said OK read me the name of the author and his position. It was his professor. He stammered and said well I guess that might be. Now can we transfer her to a mental institute. I said you mention that one more time and I'm coming after you.

Then next morning she was OK again but somewhat amnesic. The next day the MRI got done. Two bleeders in the brain one old likely years before the other very recent due to the Serotonin Syndrome.

Our primary doctor not the one we have now saw her and said Oh My God what did they do. She had beat herself black and blue. Hospital protocol did not allow our primary care doctor to have any input nor was she contacted. This was about 12-13 years ago. On both of our medical records we have no antidepressants or Serotonin elevating medications allowed., I realize now due to the meds I was given initially I was having early symptoms of it also.

Doctors are literally terrified of Benzo's but will not think twice nor do what should be an extensive neurological history before passing out antidepressants like candy. Benzos can not give you Serotonin Syndrome they are the treatment to stop it.

It sounds like you wife may have had the most damaging type of post-polio syndrome the Dr. Bruno has researched. I am having some cognitive difficulty tonight so I won’t try to paraphrase it other to say that the repairs that the body makes to restore muscle function after childhood polio can break down in middle age, especially if exercise is pushed to try to overcome increasing disability, unfortunately.

Here are some links to Dr. Richard Bruon’s work on post-polio syndrome from which he suffers:

MP3: “DR. RICHARD L. BRUNO ANSWERS QUESTIONS ABOUT POST POLIO SYNDROME”

http://www.myragoldick.com/3084/dr-richard-l-bruno-answers-questions-about-post-polio-syndrome/

“Parallels Between Post-Polio Fatigue and Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome: A Common Pathophysiology?”

http://www.cfids-cab.org/cfs-inform/Postpolio/bruno.etal98.txt

Here is his book:

“The Polio Paradox: What You Need to Know”

http://www.amazon.com/The-Polio-Paradox-What-Need/dp/0446690694

Here is a page with numerous links on post-polio including many interesting ones on Dr. Bruno’s work:

http://www.cfids-cab.org/cfs-inform/Postpolio/postpolio.html

“Given the choices of what I thought it was like a stroke. MS, MD, Brain tumor, or similar I consider myself lucky this is what I have.”

I agree! Every day that I am still ambulatory and do not have untreatable pain and am not terminal I am thankful!

I, too, have a wife with severe medical issues. Four times last year she was so psychotic that she had to be hospitalized, and she is a retired RN to boot...who used to work on a psych ward! Life is a character-building experience and we have to count our blessings every day.

My wife before quad hit her was a CNA in a nursing home. I worked in Maintenance and that’s how we met. I took a facility transfer I was offered after I had lost my first wife. They needed a HVAC mechanic and Electrician at another nursing home and where I was at had two guys doing that already. I could do both jobs at the other place.

BTW thanks for the links. Transverse Milieus and Polio are similar and some even suggest it can be from Polio Relapse. It destroys or damages the Myelin Nerve Sheaves among other things. Transverse is auto immune and as such non contagious.