Hi & (((((HUGS)))))) To All ~
For a week, Jon has been contending with problems associated with the change of his indwelling catheter (he has an enlarged prostate and has to use a catheter for the rest of his life). We are suspecting that what we are seeing from Jon is a reaction to a bladder spasm, but we aren't positive that it isn't a seizure.
So, I come again to the experts here for your opinion.
Jon purses his lips. Sometimes, he will loosen up and relax them, but most of the time, they remain solidly shut. He looks as though he has just sucked on the sourest lemon on the planet.
He is fully alert, fully aware of my presence, of his surroundings.
His eyes look fine. No change in his pupils. No nystagmus. No staring.
His limbs are relaxed. He picks up things and hands them to us. He reaches up for a hug.
He just can't get his lips to open. He puts his finger up to his lips, as if to try to pry them apart. He doesn't. But he realizes that he can't open them.
This can last for a minute to 5 minutes. After he relaxes his lips, he sighs, coughs, smiles, speaks. He's fine.
Jon is extremely lethargic and tired. He lost a lot of blood with his catheter change, and he's holding his urine for several hours, rather than continuously draining his bladder. His BM's had stopped. We were concerned that he was holding on to his seizure meds (Depakote, Dilantin, Phenobarb ~ all the old line drugs) and that he might be going toxic on one or more of them.
Now that he is releasing a lot of urine and his bowels are finally moving, I am wondering whether he is flushing out his meds, which might be causing these pursed lips episodes, if they are seizures.
Does this sound like a seizure to you? If so, what kind?
Thank you all, as always, for helping me to sort out my mysterious son.
Love & Light,
Rose
For a week, Jon has been contending with problems associated with the change of his indwelling catheter (he has an enlarged prostate and has to use a catheter for the rest of his life). We are suspecting that what we are seeing from Jon is a reaction to a bladder spasm, but we aren't positive that it isn't a seizure.
So, I come again to the experts here for your opinion.
Jon purses his lips. Sometimes, he will loosen up and relax them, but most of the time, they remain solidly shut. He looks as though he has just sucked on the sourest lemon on the planet.
He is fully alert, fully aware of my presence, of his surroundings.
His eyes look fine. No change in his pupils. No nystagmus. No staring.
His limbs are relaxed. He picks up things and hands them to us. He reaches up for a hug.
He just can't get his lips to open. He puts his finger up to his lips, as if to try to pry them apart. He doesn't. But he realizes that he can't open them.
This can last for a minute to 5 minutes. After he relaxes his lips, he sighs, coughs, smiles, speaks. He's fine.
Jon is extremely lethargic and tired. He lost a lot of blood with his catheter change, and he's holding his urine for several hours, rather than continuously draining his bladder. His BM's had stopped. We were concerned that he was holding on to his seizure meds (Depakote, Dilantin, Phenobarb ~ all the old line drugs) and that he might be going toxic on one or more of them.
Now that he is releasing a lot of urine and his bowels are finally moving, I am wondering whether he is flushing out his meds, which might be causing these pursed lips episodes, if they are seizures.
Does this sound like a seizure to you? If so, what kind?
Thank you all, as always, for helping me to sort out my mysterious son.
Love & Light,
Rose
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