Friday, March 10, 2006
Stop Press!
Louise may not be mad after all!
Got the results of the various tests today- MRI and ECG were thankfully unexceptional but from the EEG there are apparently signs of a lower resistance to epileptic seizures in both temporal lobes. (Temporal lobes are the area that would be expected for mood changes results.)
Which may be an artefact of the lithium but is sufficiently interesting to the consultant that I am to be wired up for 4 days with significant sleep deprivation in the near future.
Not sure what to make of it as yet; guess I will have to wait and see. Fairly astonished that they found anything at all.
Got the results of the various tests today- MRI and ECG were thankfully unexceptional but from the EEG there are apparently signs of a lower resistance to epileptic seizures in both temporal lobes. (Temporal lobes are the area that would be expected for mood changes results.)
Which may be an artefact of the lithium but is sufficiently interesting to the consultant that I am to be wired up for 4 days with significant sleep deprivation in the near future.
Not sure what to make of it as yet; guess I will have to wait and see. Fairly astonished that they found anything at all.
# posted by Louise H @ 4:24 pm 
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Good question. Actually there is very little difference, conceptually or practically, between mood swings caused by one or the other. However a physical cause is far more respectable (and, theoretically, could be rectified permanently by surgery (eek)).
But at least one of my two main drugs treats both which indicates that they may have a lot in common from a causal point of view. Since no-one really understands either the diagnosis is probably neither here nor there :-) But it's jolly interesting and allows me to play around with Excel to draw pretty graphs with lots of variables from all these mood charts I've been keeping. (natural response to numbers- crunch them).
What it does mean, if it turns out to be anything like accurate, is that all the other (non mood swing) weird effects I get which my previous psych insisted were dissociation due to some deep trauma are actually fairly run of the mill temporal lobe effects. Which would be reassuring.
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But at least one of my two main drugs treats both which indicates that they may have a lot in common from a causal point of view. Since no-one really understands either the diagnosis is probably neither here nor there :-) But it's jolly interesting and allows me to play around with Excel to draw pretty graphs with lots of variables from all these mood charts I've been keeping. (natural response to numbers- crunch them).
What it does mean, if it turns out to be anything like accurate, is that all the other (non mood swing) weird effects I get which my previous psych insisted were dissociation due to some deep trauma are actually fairly run of the mill temporal lobe effects. Which would be reassuring.
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