Рет қаралды 348
This is one of the ways my episodes present - dysarthria occurring with severe weakness. I woke up in a state of partial paralysis at about 5 am, and the episode continued for four hours. An hour later, I had another one that lasted for an hour and a half. Then I had seizures off and on between 4 and 10 pm. Just a day in the life of whatever this is - periodic paralysis and Chiari malformation are the two things that ring true the most with what I know about myself and my life-long history.
UPDATE: I was formally diagnosed with Chiari malformation in August 2019. The evidence was in my scans from Oct 2018, but when I asked my PCP about it, she just said, "Oh, that just means you have headaches." It was months before I got a real answer about it.
I have also been diagnosed with Periodic Paralysis since this time, and I believe both were contributing to this, which went on for months, but in different ways.