Two weeks ago yesterday I experienced a grand mal seizure and regained consciousness in the hospital. Let me tell you, that's not a fun experience what-so-ever! To add insult to injury I bit through my tongue in 2 places and that hurt like all get out for days! Well, I've had every test they could think of run on me and the best part...no brain tumor or bleeds. The only bad part...the neurologist thinks it was brought on by my rapid weight loss. He thinks my body went through such a shock going from the way I was eating before to how I eat now and it cause the seizure. I'm now on antiseizure medication 4 times a day and trying to get used to that. I told them at work if I nod off for someone to please just wake me up. Also, I am now not allowed to drive and that's a whole new world for me now!!!! Has anyone else experienced this as a result of drastic weight loss? Bound for me to! I told everyone before my surgery that with my luck I'd finally start losing weight and everything would fall apart on me whereas before my surgery, the doctor labeled me a freak of nature because I had nothing wrong with me when I should have. Hopefully the medication will keep me seizure free cause that's one ride I don't care to take again! Hopefully now I'll be back on schedule and can stay awake long enough to read posts on here cause I have missed y'all so much!

OMG Becky!!! Praise God that you are even able to sit there and tell us what happened! You poor thing!

I will say a prayer for you right now and I pray to God that you will be ok now and on the road to a happier healthier life.

Many hugs to you from me. ~Kelly

Geeze Becky, its good to see you again. I'm so sorry for the seizures and the tongue eeegads lady. HUGS !!

I don't know of this happening to anyone that has rapid weight loss, I guess thats because I don't know to many folks who have lost that fast except me YEARS ago.

I hope everything goes well for you.

***BIG HUG***

Oh Becky, huggs girlie, I hope that nothing like that ever happens again...how scary for you. I have never heard of that happening because of weight loss, but I am glad to see you back on the board. I hope all goes well from here on out!

Wow Becky! How awful! I'm assuming your doc ran blood tests to check out your nutritional health. I know you are eating and you shouldn't be malnourished like some GP folks...but even they don't usually have grand mal siezures like that out of the blue, do they? How odd and scary!!!

Take care and keep us posted on your progress. Will you be able to go off the meds in the future and begin to drive again? Wow girl, I'm worried about you!!! Stay in touch. So glad you are back in business!!

OUCH, bit your tongue, I bit my jaw a dozen times last week and that hurt bad enough, poor thing. Hope you're feeling better and stay well.

*hugs* Becky. Hope the tests all come back okay. You'll be in my thoughts.

Im so sorry. Hope they find out what is going on so you can get off meds and drive again.

My daughter has Vasa vagel it comes on if her sugar is low, she exercises or getting blood work.They did not put her on meds.She has had it since age 7.

Oh Becky, I'm so sorry to hear of your ordeal. You sound as though you are handling everything with your usual postive attitude, God Bless You.

I haven't heard of anyone having seizures due to rapid weight loss, but I do know someone who was losing weight rapidly and he ended up with atrial fibrilation because of it. That's a problem with the heart beating out of control at an irregular pattern.

It's funny, because I was just thinking about you the other day and was wondering why you hadn't been posting. Little did I know that you were having such serious problems.

I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. I hope the doctors can get to the bottom of this and know what actually caused it.

Take Care,

Cindy

HUGS!

Talk about a body stubbornly holding on to the past.... I think yours threw a massive temper tantrum! Do follow up on the nutrition thing... I don't know what causes seizures - but chemical imbalances have been known to do lots of horrid things.

Take care!

((hugs, again))

Welcome back Becky! Glad to hear you are better, but please take care and follow through with it all.

Becky, Im so sorry to hear what you had to go thourgh, but Im glad you are better now and it didnt turn out to be something worse. Im glad to see you back on LBT I was missing you! you take care okay I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

I will pray that God give the doctor's wisdom and that he heal your body! God bless you.

Kendra

My dad has grand mal seizures, and my oldest daughter has had 2. My dad is on medication because thats the only way to control them. From what I've found out through going through this with my daughter (who had her first seizure while on an exchange trip to Germany when she was 12) is that anyone can have a seizure if they reach their "trigger" point. We went through tons of tests, and with both of her seizures she had been awake for extended amounts of time and eating crap. So our neurologist has just let her know that she has to get sleep. She isn't someone that can go to a sleepover eat candy and drink cokes all evening and not sleep. (we try to make sure she is always in bed by 12. Did the doctors say how long you would have to be on the medication? Did you have any other things surrounding your seizure that was out of the norm? Did they have you wear the electrodes for an extended amount of time, like over 24 hours to register your normal brainwave actions? We had all of these things done because we were so afraid of our daughter being labeled eppilleptic. The medications can have side effects of their own. Since this was your one and only siezure I'm suprised they have started you on medication. Most people who have a siezure...never have another. Its only a worry when a person has multiple seizures from what our neuroligist told us. My dad hates changing doctors now because they always think they know a better combination of meds to control his seizures.....they change medications...which usually triggers a seizure and then he has to give up his driving liscense for a year. Did your doc say weather or not if you are seizure free for a specific amount of time if you can drive again?

Sorry you are going through all of this, it can be very scarey I know.

Melissa

How scary! I will pray for you.

Thank you all soooooooo much! I'm really doing great since they finally have my medication regulated. Matter of fact, I started driving again yesterday!!!!! My six months was over since my initial seizure. Not being able to drive for that long was torture! But I'm as they say here in Texas....back in the saddle again! My neurologist ran every test he could think of and attributed my seizure to poor nutrition. He said I was anorexic. I told him I was the fattest anorexic on the planet then! He also told me I was lucky it was a seizure and not heart failure cause that's what happens sometimes, like Karen Carpenter. I'm just very lucky that things are going well for me now and I'm following my doctor's orders now to a T! I think I just wanted to prove to everyone how well the lap-band can work for people that had a lot to lose. But as usual, my being a bit of a rebel, got me in trouble. But I'm being a good girl now. Thanks again for all your sweet comments and prayers. I just hope and pray no more seizures because now in Texas if you're treated for a seizure you automatically lose your license for a whole year! I told them at the DMV that someone would just have to shoot me if that happened. Pretty good incentive to mind my doctor, I'm thinking.