21 yrs old I had a medial menisectomy 2/3rds removed radial degenerative post 1 month and 17 days lots of pain swelling and weird feelings with nerves and numbing wearing a tubigrip and a brace over but I'm a welder and I'm in my feet all day for 8 hours in a production ran environment unfortunately and I'm depressed and frustrated because I feel like it's just going to lead to osteoarthritis in the future and I won't be able to run skateboard bike etc
I have so many teeth that need worked on and it helps me to be able to follow along with dentist with tooth numbers/surfaces. It makes me more confident/aware with what we're doing. I've got numbers and most surfaces down pat but cannot keep mesial vs. distal straight. Anyone have a good way to remember/differentiate the two?
Hi all,
It hasn't been a great few days I can say.
After an altered conscious seizure before work 2 days ago, then one in front of my doctor and then again in front of my housemate, I was lucky enough to get an MRI right away which has come back showing mesial temporal sclerosis on the right side of my brain. I am almost 32 and I am now in a state of shock, I am desperately trying to see a neurologist for a proper diagnosis and the next steps to life.
I am posting here today to ask what has been peoples experience with this type of diagnosis. I am trying to see a Neurologist urgently so I can get a full diagnosis. I am due to fly home for Easter tonight and I hope that my seizures don't affect.
Sorry I hope this post is okay. This has all just come as a shock.
Hi, this is my first post on r/Epilepsy (30 yr old male). Have been finding it very helpful and welcoming so far.
My first time going to an epileptologist was a few months back where I had a negative EEG, but an MRI showed a left MTS with neuronal cell loss and hyperintensity on T2/FLAIR.
I have never been diagnosed with epilepsy before but went to a neurologist due to me suspecting I had REM sleep behaviour disorder. My nights can be very odd with me acting out my dreams and calling out for help so that my husband can wake me up. I've also had what seems to be partial seizures. I've had dissociative episodes since I've been a child.
Im about to spend 2-3 weeks in a EMU but I was just wondering, can someone have MTS without TLE??
Everything is so new to me with regards to this illness it feels like my symptoms slip through my fingers if I try analyzing them hard enough. So much so that I am doubting it is epilepsy. Just would be so embarrassed if these seizures ended up being psychogenic.
Would really love to hear from anyone whose first finding has been MTS with regards to their diagnostic/treatment path.
Best regards!
Age: 25
Weight:165
Location: Hospital under LTM
Medical History: Diabetes mellitus type 1, Orthostatic hypotension
Current Meds: Lamotrigine 100, Asentra 150, insulin
Can alcohol be a trigger?
Hello I'm a 29 male. And i got my wisdom tooth removed about 15 days ago. it's healing nicely, but now my next tooth is a little loose. i often feel really mild pain(pressure) when i chew on that side. Is it normal or something to worry about. And by loose i mean if i try to move it with my fingers there is a very little movement there.
Newly diagnosed. Usually the sudden intense emotion I feel is fear but today it’s sadness. What can I do to help this when it happens?
I’m almost certain I have mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. I hit nearly every symptom mark. I do remember them and don’t lose any time or consciousness. I’d appreciate any advice you have for the appointment and what questions to ask as well as what to be weary of.
Thank you!
I've reached a point where several tests (including Video EEG's and MRI's) have confirmed that I have lesions on my right hippocampus which are semi-regular focal seizures (avg once a week or so) and rare tonic-clonic type seizures (maybe once or twice a year). Medication has proven ineffective at fully controlling them though when I was removed for the Video EEG they did come on strongly to include two tonic-clonic seizures within three days, so it certainly is accomplishing something useful.
At this point my neurologist is recommending that I undergo surgery to either have a right amigdilohippocampolectomy or laser ablation to kill of the same portion of my brain which has been confirmed to be the cause of the issues.
I guess my question for this group is if anyone here has undergone the procedures in question? This includes the ablation, amigdilohippocampolectomy, or an anterior temporal lobectomy. I have a high functioning job where I need critical thinking skills on a regular basis. What was your recovery time? What was your mental fatigue after the surgery and how long did it take for that to get better?
I should note that functional MRI's have shown that my primary cognitive brain function and dominance is on the other side so the risks are much smaller than they would be otherwise.
Thoughts and in put would be appreciated. Thanks.
Just found out yesterday that I have mesial temporal sclerosis that is going to require brain surgery. (I understand it to be scar tissue built up on my right frontal lobe). I’m 27f and have had epileptic symptoms for as long as I can remember but my parents always told me I was dramatic so I went on a general epilepsy med (Lamictal) and left it at that. Finding this out gave me so many answers but that came with a whole bunch of new fears. I’m hopeful that someone in this group has had the same surgery and can give me any information, so far I’ve read up all I can online. I just was wondering if anyone had any personal experience. Thanks in advance guys, I’m nervous but hopeful.
My MRI results came back today with Mesial Temporal Sclerosis and I'm having a hard time not freaking out over it.
I was diagnosed with epilepsy 17 years ago and the medication controlled it for years, but seems to be less effective in recent years. My MRIs have always come back normal (as recently as two years ago). But 7 years ago I was diagnosed with Lupus and then last year I had a manic episode and was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder.
If this was something that had always been there, I think I'd be less worried. But I've been extra depressed and foggy lately (Lamictal dose raised perhaps) and now we find this.
I know it's common with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy but what are people's experiences with it? Has it not affected you at all? Did it progress at all? Was surgery necessary and successful?
tldr; MRI came back with mescal temporal sclerosis for first time in 17 years of epilepsy. How worried should I be?
Hi, I had a seizure last September that lead to hospitalization. I had rhabdomyolysis in addition to needing to figure out what was wrong with my brain. During the time I was in the hospital I was told I had one of the MTSs. I wasn't told much else about the conditions, and I looked it up on Wikipedia. On the page it says this: 'Individuals with hippocampal sclerosis have similar initial symptoms and rates of dementia progression to those with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and therefore are frequently misclassified as having Alzheimer's Disease.' Can anyone here tell me a bit more about this by any chance? I keep coming back to that line and worrying a bunch. I hope this doesn't break any subreddit etiquette. I couldn't find an faq, sorry if I missed it. Thanks for reading this.
Anyone here with mesial temporal sclerosis or temporal lobe epilepsy undergo a temporal lobectomy? I'm curious about individual's experiences, I'm a 26 year old male with mts, and while I've been pretty effective at controlling seizures through lifestyle/dietary changes and cannabis (1 or 2 seizures a year), I'm still not seizure free.
Successes? Stories?
As a fresh graduate I've only been working just about two years. As predicted, school taught me literally nothing I needed to know and not even close to the amount of handskills. (It took me 5 months in clinic to do my first filling, even after going my own lengths to find patients.)
We can generally agree that our previous colleagues had cheaper and better education. The two years learning histology, having 6 hour opath finals, studying RPD designs like the bible did nothing but waste time. Schools have grown so greedy its insane.
The purpose of this post is not to rant about how bad dental education is and how far it has declined.
This post is about the culture we have when we graduate.
We jump through the endless hoops.
We suffer and pay a metric ****ton of money for the absolute bare minimum.
But when we graduate we dont look back. Its over.
It seems there's this common belief that "everyone goes through it" and we seem to accept that its just a part of becoming a dentist.
I believe it is this "well I have mine now" thinkspeak that has snowballed an ever increasing lack of quality education from generation to generation (Dentists eat their young) And I agree, it seems futile to look back at my school days. Why would I? Given the current status in life its much more enticing to to move forward. To get out of debt and live a better lifestyle.
But what if it didn't have to be a part of becoming a dentist? What if we made it so DSO's dont take advantage of our negligence of our previous generation student loan debt? Improved our profession? I don't want to be the generation that turned its back (again) and now school cost 800,000$ and students get to do two crown preps and an ext.
Perhaps I am being obtuse but it is just something I am thinking about between patients. If there is any course of action to invest in future dentists I would purse it, I just dont know where to start. Ok. Rant Over.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Buenosdillas
Pilot on me!!
