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J. T. laurie - 22 Nov 2006 06:33 GMT

Partial,
When I was in the hospital for my broken back I suffered a massive "Seizure"
that they had to give me some sort of medication to stop. I have no earthly
idea what it was, I was doped on methadone for the pain at that time, but
afterwords when I left the hospital I was given a prescription for
gabbapentin, sorry for spelling, also called neurontin, which seems to have
stopped mos of the seizures. I have only had one major one in my sleep and
two minor ones, one last night and one this morning since I came home.
I will let my "neurologist" know when and if I see him in December. We are
also trying to get my medicaid transferred up here to where I live and ditch
my horrid doctor.

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partials - 22 Nov 2006 22:26 GMT

> Partial, When I was in the hospital for my broken back

I was saddened to read about your unfortunate injury. Best wishes for a full
recovery.

> I suffered a massive "Seizure" that they had to give me some sort of
> medication to stop. I have no earthly idea what it was,

That sounds as though you were in "status" (status epilepticus) if the seizure
was not ending on its own. The drug they gave you was probably diazepam or one
of its relatives in the benzodiazepine family.

> I was doped on methadone for the pain at that time, but afterwords when I
> left the hospital I was given a prescription for gabbapentin, sorry for
> spelling, also called neurontin, which seems to have stopped mos of the
> seizures. I have only had one major one in my sleep and two minor ones, one
> last night and one this morning since I came home. I will

I take that also. Neurontin is the owned brand name of the gabapentin made by
Pfizer. Enough years have passed so that other companies can also make a generic
gabapentin drug. I recently switched from Neurontin, for cost reasons, over to
the generic that Pfizer itself makes. It's rather amusing becaused the pills are
identical except for the markings and obviously came off the same manufacturing
line. There is a big difference in cost though. It's the first of the ones that
was tried on me that did any good, so I stayed on it. But it didn't do the full
job and others have been added to the mix over time.

> let my "neurologist" know when and if I see him in December. We are also
> trying to get my medicaid transferred up here to where I live and ditch my
> horrid doctor.

Good luck with all of that. Hang in there!

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