It's good that she's getting checked out by a neurologist. I had temporal lobe seizures for about a 15 year period starting around 1980 and ending around 1998 or so. They weren't serious, didn't really interfere with my life, but were annoying. I went through all kinds of tests (EEG, CAT scan, MRI) which did not show anything, nor did I have any history of head injury or anything else that would indicate seizures. I don't know why they started and I don't know why they stopped although I was told by one neurologist that they were possibly hormone related and if so would decrease as I approached menopause. I started having these spells about six months before I wound up in the emergency room after a full-blown episode in which I lost consciousness. I was afraid to tell anyone about them because I was afraid that they meant mental illness and I would be locked up. It can be pretty scary to have these kinds of things happening. I remember one spell I started talking nonsense and I knew I was talking nonsense but I could not help myself, it was the seizure taking over.
She's was transfered to another hospital and is being kept until tuesday and we cannot call or visit her. Just to add the things she was doing this morning: she wanted me to spell her name backwards on her shirt, and on the way to the hospital if she saw a red light a half mile ahead she would get scared and tell my dad to slow down, she also 'freaked' if we were 1mph above the speed limit. This tells me she knows what was going on, which doesn't fit the way she was behaving at the house. We couldn't even get her to get dressed and out of her pj's. She also was not 100% remember our cousin, and she couldn't remember what sport I played. Also, when I went downstairs this morning and first 'discovered' her problem she had papers and notecards all over the kitchen tables with things like her name written on it with numbers under it.
Also, she went to someone at her college this week for study skills help. I noticed on some of the note cards you could tell she was using this method. It's like she's so over whelmed with school and trying to do good, and driving in the snow, and all of this stuff "building up"
Thanks for you help, I'm curious about the spell where you were talking nonsense. What was the outcome? Did you end up recovering after a few days?
Hey,
Sorry to hear about your sister. Please keep us posted as I curious what this could be? I did not think hearing voices was typical of Aspergers? I wonder if she is on any medication which could cause it? I have suffered from migraines and they will last around three days. Not fun and the medication makes you feel like you are flying. Meds can do strange things and we all take them for various reasons. It sounds like she is in the best place to be observed. You are very lucky to have a sister.
Bill
The only medication she's taking is zertec and some nasal spray. I remember a few years back her doctor gave her acne medicine and she started having vertigo, I think they ended up saying it was something in it that was causing it. I will definitely keep you posted.
I'm also wondering about one other thing. She likes to keep a lot of stuff, and she puts in boxes in her closet. It's like she wants to keep all this stuff but she also wants to be VERY clean. She puts tissues under practically everything (like her phone, etc), which bothers me. During this "spell" she has been arranging a lot of her belongings around her blankets in the living room (where she's been sleeping the last 2 nights, she says she's more comfortable there). An example is decks of cards and these squishy balls. She also brought about every pillow in the house to sleep on. I wasn't too worried about it this weekend because I thought she just had the flu and it made her more comfortable.
Another thing worth mentioning that we just thought of is that she just had her hair straightened with some 'japanese method' 2 weeks ago that used chemicals. It's supposed to last a long time and it cost quite a bit.