This is my most recent update/excuse to try out my new lavalier mic for my video recorder. Listen, we all need excuses to make new videos, and this is obviously mine.
I'm actually also undergoing a modified Atkins diet at the moment as well. This is all in an effort to get off my anti-seizure drug as quickly and cleanly as possible. When I saw Dr. Kaplan (my neurologist) in Feb., he said that I should try to rid myself of my fettered dependence on the anti-seizure drug levitracatem (generic keppra). This was wonderful news.
The news was so wonderful because I've noticed that my auras have been slowing down for several months to the point now that I rarely have them. If you don't know what an aura is, have no fear, you're no different than most of my other readers. These experiences are an unexplainable feeling that a seizure is coming and coming soon. For me, it is literally only a few moments before one happens. Literally, I had one once and I made it half way off the bed before I collapsed and crushed my forehead on the floor. I get them before every seizure that I have, but I also get them when I don't have seizures. The number of auras before seizures I have to seizures I don't have is literally 1:100. I have so many more before nothing than before a seizure.
The modified Atkins diet is my way of limiting the event of such an occurrence. It has actually been shown to be very helpful in stemming the tide of intractable seizures in children, and though no official research has been conducted on adult populations, I think that it's a fairly safe bet to assume that the same results can be expected. You may consider me foolish for thinking this, but in my experience. Being on the diet for almost 10 days, and having no increase in seizure symptoms is reason enough for me.
Here I am keeping all of you updated on my lack of seizure progress. Hopefully, this will all end in me getting off the drugs and having only minor shunt problems. That's my wish for this post.
