20.8.09

GAH!!! Long Long Post

About a year and a half ago my husband had a really really bad sinus infection,so the doctor perscribed him a decongestiant(spelling) and amoxicillian. So a couple days after we went to the doctor nic had a full on gran mal seziure in bed at 2 in the morning. We rushed him to the hospital and we went for months it seems, to the neurologist for mri, ct scans, eeg, blood work, all of these tests, and then he just didnt have anymore seizures, only the one. So a year and a half later here we are healthy as a horse. Nic goes in to get his wisdom teeth taken out and after you get that done they give you lortab and amoxicillian. So a couple days ago, i wake up to my husband Screaming and not like a normal theme park scream but like the scream you do when your in extreme pain. Well he started doing this around 4 in the morning, and then started full on seizing. I dont know if any of you have ever had someone have a seizure in front of you, but for me it is totally horrifing. Especially because he is my husband, my best friend, my......everything. Anyways i call the ambulance because his whole body turned completley white and was not responding at all. The fire dept is only like 30 seconds down the street from us (praise the lord) and got there in just a couple min from when i called. His vitals were all low and he was taking to long to respond so we brought him the the er. We get setteled in nic gets oxygen and all fixed up so he is fine, just really weak and tired from everything, not to mention the nice chunk he took out of his tounge during the seizure and his poor wisdom teeth were not helping. So the ER doctor on staff that night came in, introduced himself and we went over all of nics history and then about 15 min later the doc walks in and says we did the ct scan of his head and everything looks perfect there is nothing wrong, but i have a really strong feeling that nic is allergic to amoxicillian and one of the side effects of that is seizures. WTF. seriously, i was so excited that we had a reason why this was happening to him, but horrified at the same time. So we check out and go home to rest with the comfort in knowing this will never happen again. WRONG this morning i work up at 1:45ish to my huband grunting and convulsing. i call 911 the peremedics come and swipe amonia under his nose and his eyes are open his vitals are fine, so they tell me to just let him go to sleep and just call the neurologist in the morning. ok. well all the peremedics leave and i go and sit on the bed with nic and he is going in and out of sleep, for all of you that dont know about seizures they are like having your body run a marathon then go home and work out all day. its extremely exhausting and painful. So he keeps looking at me kinda funny and is really scared to go back to sleep. Everytime this has happened nic has little or no memory of anything that happened. An hour after they left i put nic into a bath to help with his low back and he gets out after and comes up to me and the whole time since his seizure had no idea that i was his wife. no idea.
I have never been through something like this, and more than being physically draining im emotionally drained seeing him have to go through that and it makes my heart break for him. So after we looked online and, low and behold nic overdosed on his antibiotic medicne or so we think. so we have him completely off of everything he was taking. So hopefully this means that we will have no more sezires....ever. So this week we have some meetings and appt with the neurologist and hopfully everything turns out fine and my baby will never ever have to go through this again.

2 comments:

  1. so so sorry! I hope you are doing better and especially your husband. I will keep you in my prayers, hopefully you will find the answers. Love ya.

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  2. DUDE!!! This sucks so many balls at one time. I'm sorry. That would probably scar me for life! I hope you guys can figure out what is going on. Sounds to me like its the amoxicillin. They do have lots of other drugs like amox that do the same thing, have you asked his doc if he can get a different drug? Man, this is some scary shit. :( Love you, and I hope you guys will be okay.

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