Author Topic: Messed Up **** :( (Read 1356 times)

funkedup · « **Reply #15 on:** April 23, 2003, 10:47:36 AM »

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Originally posted by Creamo
"Be careful out there"... as if there are epileptic hikers on the AH bbs that may be near 40 foot cliffs next outing?

Sad story but huh?

Yeah Creamo this type of situation has never come up on these boards before.

Creamo · « **Reply #16 on:** April 23, 2003, 11:28:14 AM »

Ok, I'll bite.

I know better but still, the other epileptic hiker on a 40 ft cliff

thread was when?

airbumba · « **Reply #17 on:** April 23, 2003, 11:58:49 AM »

My brother is an epileptic, I spent many a time securing his head and keeping him from swallowing his tongue during seizures. I think the worse part is the way kids treat other kids with the illness, ya can spend day after day slapping around the people who laugh at someone seizing but the stigma will always remain.
I guess the sight of a body totally out of control is just too much for some people to comprehend.

The modern meds have stopped his siezures almost completely, (WTG science dudes) but it is sytemic and MUST be taken daily for at least a month before they reach peak effect. There are sideaffects tho, sterility is one.

Another thing that I find curious is that some people musta known, cause usually your drivers liscence is revoked when the doctor reports such an illness.

Good luck to the little kid, hope she learns to forget the ending and remembers all the rest.

Bumba

Udie · « **Reply #18 on:** April 23, 2003, 12:24:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Why did the guy get off the meds? That's just asking for trouble, IMHO.

Well when I got misdiagnosed as manic/depressive last august they gave me Depakote as a mood stabilizer. Turns out it's epilepsy medication. VERY POWERFUL stuff. I took it for just over a week and had a very bad physical and "pysichotic" reaction to it on day 10. I threw up 27 times in 12 hours then had the worst panic attack I've ever had. I mean the WORST, it's a wonder I didn't kill myself or somebody else that night.

I know after my experience last year I'll never put another psychotropic drug in my system unless my life depends on it. Those things are VERY strong and they don't know all the side effects...

$.02.......

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side note....

When I had my siezure last December it took the paramedics a good while to convense me that I had one. I didn't believe them until I had enough rational thought back to realize that you just don't go from sitting at your computer working to opening your eyes and seeing 2 medics pumping drugs into your IV that wasn't there 1 second ago

I was out for 10 min and never knew it.

miko2d · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2003, 12:26:44 PM »

Siaf__csf: Hmm no disrespect for the people in question, but I can't help to wonder where are the 'darwin at work' comments?

'Darwin' works whether we make insencitive remarks or not, so we better not in some cases...

AWMac · « **Reply #20 on:** April 23, 2003, 12:48:40 PM »

Sad thing to have happened. My condolences to the family.

Badger · « **Reply #21 on:** April 23, 2003, 12:58:25 PM »

My deepest condolences funkedup....

Regards,
Badger

Creamo · « **Reply #22 on:** April 23, 2003, 01:14:42 PM »

Oh for Christs sake Badger...

funkedup · « **Reply #23 on:** April 23, 2003, 01:27:51 PM »

Hey thanks but I didn't know the guy that died. He was a friend of the guy I work with.

Dowding · « **Reply #24 on:** April 23, 2003, 01:43:31 PM »

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There are sideaffects tho, sterility is one.

Err... out of interest which medication is he on, if you don't mind telling me. I'm 24 years old and taking anti-seizure medication and permanent sterility is something I would like to avoid.

Mini D · « **Reply #25 on:** April 23, 2003, 02:12:52 PM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
Err... out of interest which medication is he on, if you don't mind telling me. I'm 24 years old and taking anti-seizure medication and permanent sterility is something I would like to avoid.

Erm... guess I might as well tell you or one of the others will. We petitioned your doctor not to share this information with you. While none of us wished harm on you, we were pretty much agreed that its best you not reproduce.

We were going to tell you the day you turned gay, but didn't have the chance before you proclaimed being hetro again.

MiniD

Dowding · « **Reply #26 on:** April 23, 2003, 02:52:24 PM »

lol!

I should have suspected something when I saw the picture of Fatty's mum on the doc's desk.

For a moment I thought I'd walked into the Gynecology department. Turns out the doc was just a fan.

midnight Target · « **Reply #27 on:** April 23, 2003, 02:53:09 PM »

Poor girl. How old was she?

Erlkonig · « **Reply #28 on:** April 23, 2003, 03:08:15 PM »

Is the situation this guy put himself in really dissimilar to that of the chick who got run over by a bulldozer in Palestine?

Frogm4n · « **Reply #29 on:** April 23, 2003, 03:36:13 PM »

not really Erlkonig both made a choice.