He changed the implementation of national fibre to the premises/home to fibre to the node, even though the compensation to the telecommunications company who own the copper network has already been paid.
So, once again I've been having partial seizures since 10:20 this morning. I still have no idea what's causing them. I thought I had narrowed it down to two meds, but today disproved it because I stopped them both. Was supposed to see the neuro Friday, but they rescheduled to next week. I could go to the ER, but I'd be there all day and no closer to a resolution.
At least my heart didn't stop today like it did a week before Christmas..?
Some weird things: 1. They always happen begin at work 2. They only happen begin in a particular office 3. They always begin at around the same time: 10:30AM, and then occur about every 110 minutes from there over the course of about 8 hours, then stop for weeks
So, once again I've been having partial seizures since 10:20 this morning.
Are you conscious for the seizure or do you lose consciousness?
If someone has visualised you, what occurs during what is perceived as the seizure, do you become incontinent, collapse, stare off blankly, lose your balance or fall over?
How long are you out after a seizure episode starts?
Do you have mild episode of nausea a few seconds or minutes before one happens?
When you say they begin, how long do they proceed for?
Are you on meds currently?
Seriously US hospitals wouldn't take in a cyclical seizure case as an emergency?
Sounds like a cyclical seizure pattern (usually these occur after drugs have suppressed seizure activity for a period of time and the body metabolises the medication more efficiently or something has drastically changed).
Specific times for seizures are a common attribute. e.g. my seizures were triggered by lack of sleep, and high levels of stress.
I'm an epileptic, it was caused by a case of bacterial meningitis when I was 2 years old that left a scar on my left temporal lobe. However the seizures only started when I was 16.
Neurologist will most likely start you off on on Sodium Vaporate or Valporic Acid (these did noting for me and I had to go through 2 other med trials till I was found to be responsive to an off label drug). They will need to do a base line EEG and an MRI but seeing as you have had heart problems in the past.
Ideally they will follow up by trying to get an EEG while you are seizing.
I used to have grand mal seizures as a child, which were ultimately linked to theophyllin (which I used to take for asthma). These are very different. The aura is different (there's no visual disturbance, for one, and the physical sensation is VERY different, sort of like being submerged headfirst into freezing water, but without the cold, if that makes any sense to you.)
I don't lose consciousness during these, but last month my heart was stopping during them and then I DID lose consciousness. I was hospitalized and ultimately offered a pacemaker, and Depakote. I declined both.
My wife has visualized me today. There's no outward indication of the seizure unless I react purposefully to the unpleasant sensation (by closing my eyes, lying back, etc). Last month, I physically lost consciousness for up to 15 seconds in front of an RN, and later learned that my heart had stopped for 7 seconds.
They'd probably treat me as an emergency if I went, but I'd have to deal with a lot of skepticism especially since I declined medical advice the last time. I wore a heart monitor for a month and had at least one more instance of seizure during that time. My heart did not seem to be affected at all (I didn't set off the portable monitor.)
The seizures (or aura, or whatever they are) last about 10 seconds. I feel a mild "electrical" "vibration" in my head that spreads down to my groin, and I feel that sort of "lump in the throat" sensation of descending a hill rapidly in a car. No nausea before, but after sometimes.
I've never been on anti-convulsants or other seizure meds. Before last month, it had been 22 years since my last seizure, and again, these are qualitatively and quantitatively entirely different from those ones. I'm at a loss.
The only reason they decided I was having seizures is that last month in the ER I was "calling" my cardiac arrets before they happened. They haven't caught one on an EEG. I'm a little upset about that since I spent an entire day seizing in the ER and nobody got around to hooking me up to an EEG until well into the following day after they had stopped entirely.
I had someone call my office today to give me my "48 hour notice" of upcoming work. Work that they wanted to do TOMORROW.
I tried to explain that the 48 hours starts when they call me and that a 48 hour notice given today would be for work performed at this exact time or later two days from now. They did not understand.
Seizures got worse and more frequent, had my dad drive me to the ER to try and get an actual EEG of them finally, found the ER 5 rows deep with flu patients, waited 3 hours, seizures stopped, went home.
Seizures got worse and more frequent, had my dad drive me to the ER to try and get an actual EEG of them finally, found the ER 5 rows deep with flu patients, waited 3 hours, seizures stopped, went home.
The sudden recurrence of the seizures matches up with the cyclical nature of them.
The seizures you describe sound like they are petit mal seizures.
I use to have these when I was on Tegretol, I would be unconscious for a split second or a few seconds and then continue with whatever I was doing however I would become incontinent during these periods. I had one of these in the middle of my final Tertiary Entrance Exam on Economics.
Usually when I woke up from a gran mal seizure I would be in an ambulance being driven to the ER where there was an intern to do unnecessary tests (being as it is post ictal).
I have no understanding of why your doctor isn't doing any further imaging (like an MRI) to properly diagnose and treat your case.
I would seek out a better neurologist if it's possible.
An MRI has been promised, but they keep pushing back my post-hospitalization follow up. Clearly, they don't feel any urgency.
What's confounding to me is that the sensation is very similar to when I had a large, highly pressurized abscess in my gut due to my Crohn's. The surgeon called it "pus under pressure" and it caused me light headedness and diaphoretic episodes that felt very similar to this. The only new wrinkles are the head pain and my heart stopping last month, plus I can't be sure that the sensation is identical.
Yesterday afternoon, TWICE, while I was having one of these "seizures", I was standing in the kitchen talking to my wife. My speech never slurred, my awareness never broke, my knees didn't buckle, etc. I just stood there and finished my sentence, then described to her what was happening. I only closed my eyes voluntarily near the crest because the sensation was overwhelming, but she watched me the whole time and I never twitched/fell or gave any other outward indication of seizure other than my own voluntary reaction.
I used to have grand mal seizures as a kid and they were, obviously, very very different than this. Like you, I'd wake up in an ambulance on my way to the hospital for a bunch of "cover our asses" type tests and then go home.
Well, to be fair, I don't know her, or you, or the whole picture, but I couldn't even dream of being married to a person so misinformed or so philosophically incompatible that she wouldn't understand the absolute necessity and bravery of what Snowden has done. That's appalling.
Well Snowden actually is a traitor to the fucked up misanthropic government to which he was employed. Its just that sometimes its a really good thing to be a traitor.
Well, to be fair, I don't know her, or you, or the whole picture, but I couldn't even dream of being married to a person so misinformed or so philosophically incompatible that she wouldn't understand the absolute necessity and bravery of what Snowden has done. That's appalling.
Actually, it's almost understandable given her background. Her father has worked in military intelligence for pretty much his entire adult life -- starting in the Air Force and the continuing in various civilian roles after he retired. She's totally an intelligence brat, so to speak.
Well Snowden actually is a traitor to the fucked up misanthropic government to which he was employed. Its just that sometimes its a really good thing to be a traitor.
Of course, that wasn't such a big deal pre-Snowden. I mean, she's otherwise pro gay marriage, pro universal health care, etc. Then again, so's her father, who outside of intelligence/military issues is pretty liberal politically (he was personally in attendance for MLK's "I have a dream" speech and pretty much always votes Democrat). Heck, pre-Snowden I myself applied (and got a phone interview) for a job with the NSA. They were actually willing to fly me down for an in person interview, but I declined as I had just gotten an offer for a local job the day before. Of course, now I could never work for the NSA.
I am the only one who thinks the new trend with patereon is going to be a take the money and run scheme?
Honestly it seems like less of a scheme than Kickstarter. On Patreon the money doesn't get donated until they release a product, right? I saw it as a thing that like, indie musicians would say "Pay me X dollars per song I release," and then you say "Okay." And then when they release a song they get like, a dollar from everyone.
Snowden is both hero and traitor. He is a hero for revealing how the government was spying on Americans and a traitor for revealing how the government was spying on foreigners.
This is an unpopular opinion, but the government exists as a service to its country, not the other way around. That is why we pay them.
If they are doing something that is a disservice to us, we deserve to know. Information should be free. It doesn't matter if that means that myself or someone in China can look at it.
At the end of the day, what he leaked may have threatened some intelligence agents. But I doubt it. And at the end of the day, the secrets that were being kept should not have been.
If we can either not have information about what the NSA knows about us or have other people in the world realize that we do in fact have agents in their countries, I choose the latter. Those agents know what they got into, knew that their lives are in danger, and have several layers of protection. Until someone can give me solid evidence that the Snowden leaks jeopardized or cost NSA agents their lives, I don't feel he did anything bad.
How are the leaks about foreign intelligence operations a good thing?
I don't know if they're a good thing, but at worst they're a neutral thing. I mean, it's not like the NSA is the only organization on the planet doing crap like that. I'd be surprised if the intelligence services of other antagonistic states (let's say the Russians or Chinese, for example) aren't trying to do (or actively doing) the same thing.
So those other states found out there were being spied on. Okay, that means they need to tighten up their security against being spied on. A side effect is that they'll also make it harder for even non-friendly governments to spy on them.
Going to the whole "cost their lives" thing, how come Richard Armitage and Karl Rove were never accused of being traitors, given how their revelations about Valerie Plame quite possibly could have cost agents their lives.
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This is our telecommunications minister.
He is an idiot.
He changed the implementation of national fibre to the premises/home to fibre to the node, even though the compensation to the telecommunications company who own the copper network has already been paid.
At least my heart didn't stop today like it did a week before Christmas..?
Some weird things:
1. They always happen begin at work
2. They only happen begin in a particular office
3. They always begin at around the same time: 10:30AM, and then occur about every 110 minutes from there over the course of about 8 hours, then stop for weeks
No. Freaking. Clue.
Pretty terrified, though.
Are you conscious for the seizure or do you lose consciousness?
If someone has visualised you, what occurs during what is perceived as the seizure, do you become incontinent, collapse, stare off blankly, lose your balance or fall over?
How long are you out after a seizure episode starts?
Do you have mild episode of nausea a few seconds or minutes before one happens?
When you say they begin, how long do they proceed for?
Are you on meds currently?
Seriously US hospitals wouldn't take in a cyclical seizure case as an emergency?
Sounds like a cyclical seizure pattern (usually these occur after drugs have suppressed seizure activity for a period of time and the body metabolises the medication more efficiently or something has drastically changed).
Specific times for seizures are a common attribute. e.g. my seizures were triggered by lack of sleep, and high levels of stress.
I'm an epileptic, it was caused by a case of bacterial meningitis when I was 2 years old that left a scar on my left temporal lobe. However the seizures only started when I was 16.
Neurologist will most likely start you off on on Sodium Vaporate or Valporic Acid (these did noting for me and I had to go through 2 other med trials till I was found to be responsive to an off label drug). They will need to do a base line EEG and an MRI but seeing as you have had heart problems in the past.
Ideally they will follow up by trying to get an EEG while you are seizing.
Hopefully your heart issue isn't linked.
I don't lose consciousness during these, but last month my heart was stopping during them and then I DID lose consciousness. I was hospitalized and ultimately offered a pacemaker, and Depakote. I declined both.
My wife has visualized me today. There's no outward indication of the seizure unless I react purposefully to the unpleasant sensation (by closing my eyes, lying back, etc). Last month, I physically lost consciousness for up to 15 seconds in front of an RN, and later learned that my heart had stopped for 7 seconds.
They'd probably treat me as an emergency if I went, but I'd have to deal with a lot of skepticism especially since I declined medical advice the last time. I wore a heart monitor for a month and had at least one more instance of seizure during that time. My heart did not seem to be affected at all (I didn't set off the portable monitor.)
The seizures (or aura, or whatever they are) last about 10 seconds. I feel a mild "electrical" "vibration" in my head that spreads down to my groin, and I feel that sort of "lump in the throat" sensation of descending a hill rapidly in a car. No nausea before, but after sometimes.
I've never been on anti-convulsants or other seizure meds. Before last month, it had been 22 years since my last seizure, and again, these are qualitatively and quantitatively entirely different from those ones. I'm at a loss.
The only reason they decided I was having seizures is that last month in the ER I was "calling" my cardiac arrets before they happened. They haven't caught one on an EEG. I'm a little upset about that since I spent an entire day seizing in the ER and nobody got around to hooking me up to an EEG until well into the following day after they had stopped entirely.
I tried to explain that the 48 hours starts when they call me and that a 48 hour notice given today would be for work performed at this exact time or later two days from now. They did not understand.
The seizures you describe sound like they are petit mal seizures.
I use to have these when I was on Tegretol, I would be unconscious for a split second or a few seconds and then continue with whatever I was doing however I would become incontinent during these periods. I had one of these in the middle of my final Tertiary Entrance Exam on Economics.
Usually when I woke up from a gran mal seizure I would be in an ambulance being driven to the ER where there was an intern to do unnecessary tests (being as it is post ictal).
I have no understanding of why your doctor isn't doing any further imaging (like an MRI) to properly diagnose and treat your case.
I would seek out a better neurologist if it's possible.
What's confounding to me is that the sensation is very similar to when I had a large, highly pressurized abscess in my gut due to my Crohn's. The surgeon called it "pus under pressure" and it caused me light headedness and diaphoretic episodes that felt very similar to this. The only new wrinkles are the head pain and my heart stopping last month, plus I can't be sure that the sensation is identical.
Yesterday afternoon, TWICE, while I was having one of these "seizures", I was standing in the kitchen talking to my wife. My speech never slurred, my awareness never broke, my knees didn't buckle, etc. I just stood there and finished my sentence, then described to her what was happening. I only closed my eyes voluntarily near the crest because the sensation was overwhelming, but she watched me the whole time and I never twitched/fell or gave any other outward indication of seizure other than my own voluntary reaction.
I used to have grand mal seizures as a kid and they were, obviously, very very different than this. Like you, I'd wake up in an ambulance on my way to the hospital for a bunch of "cover our asses" type tests and then go home.
So, I'm pretty confused.
I want us to be openly spying on foreign governments.
This is an unpopular opinion, but the government exists as a service to its country, not the other way around. That is why we pay them.
If they are doing something that is a disservice to us, we deserve to know. Information should be free. It doesn't matter if that means that myself or someone in China can look at it.
At the end of the day, what he leaked may have threatened some intelligence agents. But I doubt it. And at the end of the day, the secrets that were being kept should not have been.
So those other states found out there were being spied on. Okay, that means they need to tighten up their security against being spied on. A side effect is that they'll also make it harder for even non-friendly governments to spy on them.
Going to the whole "cost their lives" thing, how come Richard Armitage and Karl Rove were never accused of being traitors, given how their revelations about Valerie Plame quite possibly could have cost agents their lives.