Hello all; I am back.
I spent three nights and four days with Mae Lyne in the hospital. I went into the bedroom to check on her last Friday about 18:00. She was on the floor unconscious and I could not get her to respond. I put her on the bed and checked her BP. It was way high; but her pulse was only 42. We live only .5 miles from the hospital so I carried her to her truck and drove to the hospital ER. She was admitted late that evening and I stayed right there with her. At that point she was semi conscious; but could not stand up, let only walk. When she passed out she fell and cracked two ribs.
The doc took her off of all meds for 48 hours and gave her potassium via an IV. Her potassium level was critically low. I t seems that one of her meds was depleting her potassium. After 48 hours, the doc reintroduced her meds a lower levels. They determined she was having an allergic reaction to one of her meds and they did not reintroduce that one. She is fine now and we rode yesterday. Her pharmacist actually gave us better info than the hospital did.
When she was in the hospital in late October, her neurologist ordered a sleep deprived EEG to study her seizure activity. The upshot of that was they discovered she has obstructive sleep apnea - which I have known all along. She under went two more sleep studies and she received a CPAP machine Friday afternoon; but she did not a get a chance to use it as she spent the next three nights in the hospital. She has now used the machine three nights and she is a different person. She has actually had normal sleep.
We learned that the sleep apnea lowers the seizure threshold and can actually trigger a seizure. We also learned that it adversely affects the heart and contributes to high BP. Plus, when one never gets into a deep sleep phase, ones body cannot heal/repair itself adequately. Thus her docs are optimistic that she can now reduce her levels of medication and in fact do away with some.
So things are looking up; prayers are being answered.
I spent three nights and four days with Mae Lyne in the hospital. I went into the bedroom to check on her last Friday about 18:00. She was on the floor unconscious and I could not get her to respond. I put her on the bed and checked her BP. It was way high; but her pulse was only 42. We live only .5 miles from the hospital so I carried her to her truck and drove to the hospital ER. She was admitted late that evening and I stayed right there with her. At that point she was semi conscious; but could not stand up, let only walk. When she passed out she fell and cracked two ribs.
The doc took her off of all meds for 48 hours and gave her potassium via an IV. Her potassium level was critically low. I t seems that one of her meds was depleting her potassium. After 48 hours, the doc reintroduced her meds a lower levels. They determined she was having an allergic reaction to one of her meds and they did not reintroduce that one. She is fine now and we rode yesterday. Her pharmacist actually gave us better info than the hospital did.
When she was in the hospital in late October, her neurologist ordered a sleep deprived EEG to study her seizure activity. The upshot of that was they discovered she has obstructive sleep apnea - which I have known all along. She under went two more sleep studies and she received a CPAP machine Friday afternoon; but she did not a get a chance to use it as she spent the next three nights in the hospital. She has now used the machine three nights and she is a different person. She has actually had normal sleep.
We learned that the sleep apnea lowers the seizure threshold and can actually trigger a seizure. We also learned that it adversely affects the heart and contributes to high BP. Plus, when one never gets into a deep sleep phase, ones body cannot heal/repair itself adequately. Thus her docs are optimistic that she can now reduce her levels of medication and in fact do away with some.
So things are looking up; prayers are being answered.
