Why does everyone say that they "consigned" a drug waste.....

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Everyone say that they "consigned" a drug waste? Well, of course not everyone, but a whole lot of folks on here do.

Shouldn't the word be co-signed? Or have I been wrong all these years? To me, consign is what you do with your used clothes in a consignment shop. :cheeky:

If it makes you feel any better, all the young females with no kids all wrote:

1. NICU

2. Mother/baby

3. Not sick old people

As for me, no NICU, no peds, no mother/baby.

I'll take the sick, old people.

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As for me, no NICU, no peds, no mother/baby.

I'll take the sick, old people.

Me too! Nope, I don't deal with children who aren't related to me. Even the ones I'm related to, I tolerate at best. Just kidding, I love them.

I've always had a fascination with surgery. Or anything neuro/cardiac.

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Me too! Nope, I don't deal with children who aren't related to me. Even the ones I'm related to, I tolerate at best. Just kidding, I love them.

I've always had a fascination with surgery. Or anything neuro/cardiac.

Neuroscience was one of my favorites. I didn't think I'd like stroke patients as much as I did. Goes back to the love of brains, though. I liked theorizing which areas of the brain were affected based on their deficits, then reading the MRA interpretation to see if I was right.

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Neuroscience was one of my favorites. I didn't think I'd like stroke patients as much as I did. Goes back to the love of brains, though. I liked theorizing which areas of the brain were affected based on their deficits, then reading the MRA interpretation to see if I was right.

Ah, I'm the same way. It's such a complex organ and still not fully understood. Such a powerful thing! I hope to get a nurse residency program that allows me to experience neuro.

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Neuroscience was one of my favorites. I didn't think I'd like stroke patients as much as I did. Goes back to the love of brains, though. I liked theorizing which areas of the brain were affected based on their deficits, then reading the MRA interpretation to see if I was right.

Me, too! This fascination began when I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I don't have convulsions. I struggle to retain new memories and develop nominal aphasia. Care to guess where my seizures are? (Should be an easy one!)

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Me, too! This fascination began when I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I don't have convulsions. I struggle to retain new memories and develop nominal aphasia. Care to guess where my seizures are? (Should be an easy one!)

Temporal lobe? Tbh I've forgotten a lot from my Neuroscience class. It focused more on the brain's involvement in musculoskeletal aspects.

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Temporal lobe? Tbh I've forgotten a lot from my Neuroscience class. It focused more on the brain's involvement in musculoskeletal aspects.

Ding ding ding!!!

You could even get more specific than that - left temporal lobe.

It gets embarrassing when I'm on the phone suggesting a lab to an MD and I say, "can I put in for a..... You know..... The one that tells us if they're having an MI....." Doesn't happen often but it's rather amusing to witness I'm sure.

I forgot to mention the olfactory hallucinations. Since scent can be a relevant part of assessment data, I've needed to confirm smells a couple of times. I was only wrong once, thankfully. It's enough to make you lose your mind if you have no idea it might not be real. Before I knew my brain was messing with me, and before starting meds, I'd get random smells when I was home alone. One night I walked around my house with a baseball bat because I KNEW I smelled cigarettes. The brain is a very strange thing indeed. And thankfully vimpat takes away most of this stuff. It's rare that I have issues now.

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Ding ding ding!!!

You could even get more specific than that - left temporal lobe.

It gets embarrassing when I'm on the phone suggesting a lab to an MD and I say, "can I put in for a..... You know..... The one that tells us if they're having an MI....." Doesn't happen often but it's rather amusing to witness I'm sure.

I forgot to mention the olfactory hallucinations. Since scent can be a relevant part of assessment data, I've needed to confirm smells a couple of times. I was only wrong once, thankfully. It's enough to make you lose your mind if you have no idea it might not be real. Before I knew my brain was messing with me, and before starting meds, I'd get random smells when I was home alone. One night I walked around my house with a baseball bat because I KNEW I smelled cigarettes. The brain is a very strange thing indeed. And thankfully vimpat takes away most of this stuff. It's rare that I have issues now.

Wow, that must be a challenge. Thankfully, I've never experienced any form of hallucination, but it must be such a surreal experience. It sounds like it doesn't hinder you too much while working, which is good to hear.

If you don't mind me asking, what was the causative factor that altered the left temporal lobe? Was it trauma? Now you're making me want to delve into my neuroscience textbook when I should be studying for OB/Peds.

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Ding ding ding!!!

You could even get more specific than that - left temporal lobe.

It gets embarrassing when I'm on the phone suggesting a lab to an MD and I say, "can I put in for a..... You know..... The one that tells us if they're having an MI....." Doesn't happen often but it's rather amusing to witness I'm sure.

I forgot to mention the olfactory hallucinations. Since scent can be a relevant part of assessment data, I've needed to confirm smells a couple of times. I was only wrong once, thankfully. It's enough to make you lose your mind if you have no idea it might not be real. Before I knew my brain was messing with me, and before starting meds, I'd get random smells when I was home alone. One night I walked around my house with a baseball bat because I KNEW I smelled cigarettes. The brain is a very strange thing indeed. And thankfully vimpat takes away most of this stuff. It's rare that I have issues now.

Husband and daughter both have temporal lobe as well.

On the days when they both have problems with word finding, I just want to hide. I've bitten my tongue raw trying not to complete their sentences for them. Some days I'm better at it than others.

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Wow, that must be a challenge. Thankfully, I've never experienced any form of hallucination, but it must be such a surreal experience. It sounds like it doesn't hinder you too much while working, which is good to hear.

If you don't mind me asking, what was the causative factor that altered the left temporal lobe? Was it trauma? Now you're making me want to delve into my neuroscience textbook when I should be studying for OB/Peds.

When I was 19, I was in a head on collision that resulted in a mild concussion.

Over the next couple of years, I smoked pot maybe 3 total times, had a terrible reaction to it (sort of like blacking out, but for seconds at a time in cycles) and decided I was done with it. Nothing unusual happened again until I hurt my back and took a high dose of tramadol for awhile. At one point, my NP added cyclobenzaprine, which is not supposed to be combined with tramadol.

I had the worst reaction. Could not at all form memories. I would know what happened by putting details together, but wouldn't actually remember it. I was blown off by the prescriber and my PCP, who both decided I was just anxious. This continued 4 days before I genuinely was freaking out. An a&o person doesn't just suddenly lose their mind like that. Went to the ER and an astute ED MD (who initially blew me off as well) combed through my med history and suggested tramadol might be causing absence seizures.

I stopped taking it, and it took a few days for things to be okay again. To be perfectly honest, understanding all of this better now, I spent 7 days in status epilepticus. I am an extremely lucky person to have things as good as I do right now. Epilepsy is often progressive.

After the dust settled, I was filled with a healthy dose of fear about all of it. I asked for a referral to neuro (my PCP genuinely did NOT believe I was having seizures and strongly suggested I get my "anxiety" under control). By the time I got in to my neurologist and got an EEG, it had been months since the event. I was only going "just in case". I thought I was all better. But I still went with it.

She told me my seizure pattern was "weird", and only occurred in my sleep on the EEG. She listed some symptoms associated with LTL epilepsy, most of which I'd been having, and then she urged me to start a neuroleptic. The first one didn't do well for me, but the second did.

My last seizure while awake was months ago. It was an isolated incident. I can speculate about whether I have them when I sleep, but don't know for sure. I just know sometimes I smell weird things, and more often than that, I lose nouns.

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Husband and daughter both have temporal lobe as well.

On the days when they both have problems with word finding, I just want to hide. I've bitten my tongue raw trying not to complete their sentences for them. Some days I'm better at it than others.

If I don't ask for the word first, I totally get pissed off at my husband when he finishes my sentences with the wrong words. lol

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ixchel, I'm so sorry that you had to endure that. I can understand how frustrated people get when they are presumed to have no real reason to be treated for a "fictional episode" because it is probably anxiety. It's unfair that you were treated this way, and I'm glad that you are relatively healthy despite this event!

So was the LTL damage caused by the combination of cyclobenzapine and tramadol? It is very fortunate that you did not have more severe brain damage. Still, even the occurrence of seizures is not a minor consequence.

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