Hi,
I have very minor epilepsy - averaging <3 seizures per year over the last 6.
I have taken 400mg tegretol retard twice a day, for the past 2 years.
Recently, I have - on occasion, found myself experiencing a feeling of
seperation between my left/right leg/eyes. I'm sure if anyone here has
experienced this, then they'll understand straight away. To clarify to
anyone else:
I normally think of walking as an automatic procedure. While this doesn't
change, it becomes two seperate procedures that break the leg movements down
the middle - I'm essentially thinking about a loss of synchronicity.
The same holds true for the eye problem. When this manifests itself, it
seems to me that the image I see switches from being a sync'ed combination
of left+right eye to two slightly mis-calibrated inputs.
It's very much the sort of experience that leads to uneasiness and fears of
a seziure, despite never preceeding a seizure.
Thanks for any help.
Ole Kvaal - 23 Jul 2005 21:56 GMT
> I normally think of walking as an automatic procedure. While this doesn't
> change, it becomes two seperate procedures that break the leg movements down
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> seems to me that the image I see switches from being a sync'ed combination
> of left+right eye to two slightly mis-calibrated inputs.
Not much of a help, perhaps, but during the last year or so, I have been
experiencing the latter. I don't quite know whether to consult my
neurologist (which I hadn't thought of until now) or my optician.
Anyway, these two thing do not necessarily have any connection at all, IMO.
Like I said, this wouldn't be very helpful . . . :-)
ole k
turbinado - 24 Jul 2005 05:20 GMT
I would definitely mention this to your neurologist or GP.
Although this is probably not connected with your problem, I had a similar
thing following my right temporal lobectomy - my right eye was out of sync
with the left. This made reading very difficult, and navigating through a
crowd almost impossible.
I wore an eyepatch for a couple of months and it gradually went away - now
it's back to normal, 4 months after the surgery. (Apparently they "nicked" a
nerve in there during the operation, according to the surgeon.)
> Hi,
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> Thanks for any help.