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Surely my many Soylentil friends will agree I am _exceedingly_ Hypergraphic.
My own interpretation of my Methylmalonic Acid blood test is that it was inconclusive: I was right in the middle of the normal range, but its Wikipedia article points out that it can have false negatives as well as false positives.
There are six or eight other B12 Deficiency tests, the most definitive one generally performed last as Bone Marrow Biopsies are both painful and costly.
TLE Hypergraphia along with a few other traits are collectively regarded as Geschwind Syndrome. In my case I also experience Hyperreligiosity, as I will discuss in another post in a day or two, as well as Circumstantiality, a tendency to talk incessantly, wandering from topic to topic with no apparent connection between them.
I'm heavily into talking just that same way.
While Broca's Aphasia originates in the similarly-named Brain Area, the Broca's Area is immediately forward of the Temporal Lobe of one's dominant brain hemisphere, either the right for most artists and musicians or - in my case, as a Scientist, Engineer and Writer - the left one.
However, TLE would _not_ explain my numb feet and lips. I don't know whether or not either B12 or TLE would explain the sudden onset as well as severity of Tinnitus at the start of that same episode, or the severe dizziness that first occurred that afternoon. That dizziness persists, two or three episodes each day, one to three hours each time.
My reading of Wikipedia's Methylmalonic Acid article leads me to figure that my test result of 216 nmol/L is inconclusive. While that level is normal, in the nine weeks before you ordered my blood draw, I'd been eating antacid just like it was M&M candy. This at first due to nausea after my Radical Nephrectomy on 10/31, then later due to the nausea that comes if I move my head even just a little when I get dizzy.
So far today while I was dizzy for three hours. I can avoid nausea without antacids by lying quietly on my bed in the dark listening to music, as that discourages head music. When the dizziness struck this afternoon I was in my therapist's waiting room, so I put my computer back in its bag then sat quietly, staring at a spot on the opposite wall. During my session with her I explained why she'd found me sitting quietly, then for the entire session took care always to look directly at her, never looking away.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 13 2018, @01:41PM (2 children)
What is MDC hiding
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 13 2018, @02:12PM
J/K i was thinking of the comment on the exploding microwave journal.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 14 2018, @05:04PM
Absolutely nothing, which is why he can also be referred to as TMI.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Sulla on Thursday December 13 2018, @03:06PM
Now i find this hard to believe. MDC talking incessantly about random topics wiith no interconnections? Now thats one thing i think few of us here would believe.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 13 2018, @03:58PM
Your kidney was a first start, in principle a good idea but misguided. Take out the organs one by one to see where the problem lies. Quit frankly, I would focus on the upper parts of the body first.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 13 2018, @05:17PM (3 children)
The hyper-religiosity part was a dead giveaway. You very likely do have TLE or something similar, though nothing says this is *all* you have. Good luck dealing with this, and remember: when you talk to the Virgin Mary it's prayer, but when she talks to you, it's hallucination.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday December 13 2018, @06:10PM (2 children)
I later came to regard that as an episode of Spiritual Emergence, which really is well documented by the clinical literature
That was in 1984. In 1994 I had another such Emergence, not a vision but an experience in which I said to Dr. K that "I Have Gone Through The Looking-Glass".
Then stayed there until a mental hospital Intake Psychologist by the name of Joan Junqueira pointed out that "In more traditional cultures, the Schizoaffectives are the Shamans".
Suddenly everything made sense to me, and I returned back through the Looking-Glass.
In the Spring of 2008, I ascended to Heaven to ask God a simple question then struggle for well over twelve hours to come back to Earth. While I did understand His answer and still remember it, His answer was so complex that I am unable to explain it to anyone else.
This last Summer I experienced a Spiritual Emergency, which generally is the result of a poorly handled Emergency.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 13 2018, @06:43PM
Yup, TLE. I hate to break this to you, but you weren't talking to God, mostly because the idea of a personal agent as God is actually incoherent...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Magic Oddball on Friday December 14 2018, @10:46AM
Interesting — my mother also has TLE, and had the same experience at least once as a kid. She also tends to talk up a blue streak while meandering across subjects (seemingly without stopping to actually think about what she's saying), and has always had intermittent 'episodes' where she felt she could see individual droplets of water coming from the faucet, saw/believed there were people present that weren't, and other odd things like that.
OTOH, she also has had problems with Transient Ischemic Attacks for a long time, and the description on Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] sounds even more like your situation:
Later in the article, it mentions that the "altered mental status" can include "memory loss/cognitive impairment" and that another common symptom is "problems with balance and spatial orientation."
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday December 13 2018, @09:40PM
I sent her an email via the my.peacehealth.org secure messaging system last night. The "my" medical messaging system seems to be all the rage these days.
She said she's eager to see what my EEG shows, but I'm afraid that won't be until April.
I wait with bated breath.
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