18 pills a day.

Since getting really poorly a few weeks ago and spending time in hospital I've now been put on even more medication. So I'm now taking a lovely 18 tablets a day, luckily this number has dropped from 26 a day as I was taking paracetamol with the concoction but I had to stop taking it because it would soon start to damage my liver. 

This little handful is my morning dose.

First there was a increase in my seizure medicine Keppra from 2000mgs a day to 2500mgs a day in order to stop me seizing so much at the time, these are the large white and small blue tablets. The yellow tablets are Gabapentin a neuropathic painkiller that was once used as an anti-epileptic medicine here in the UK but is no longer used for that reason (I'm pretty sure it's still in use as an anti-epileptic elsewhere though). It has helped with the pain but not entirely. The pink tablet is Ibuprofen to help with the pain and any inflammation that occurs, the small white round tablet is Domperidon an anti-sickness medicine to take away the nausea and sickness (I can't eat without it) and finally the brown tablet is my other seizure med Vimpat. 

I take the painkillers and anti-sickness 3 times a day and seizure meds twice. I'm on close to maximum amounts if not the maximum amount I can take for my weight so I'm pretty dosed up and definitely feeling the effect. Tiredness, lack of physical energy, memory and speech problems being the worst. Of course I have to remember that to some people 18 pills is nothing and hand on heart, I feel for them.

Do they work? Short answer no. BUT the Gabapentin and Ibuprofen have lowered the extreme pain I was in a few weeks ago, just not entirely. I still have seizures (what a surprise). However the anti-sickness is working if I take it away the nausea sweeps right back in and the prospect of eating just goes straight out the window. 

Anywho I just have to carry on life as it is, slowly but surely plodding along...