Hi everyone, I am new to this discussion group and my background is as follows. Back in August of 2012 I had bilateral PE and was in the hospital for about a week. It was pretty serious, but I thought I was recovering fairly quickly until early October when I had what I know know is a seizure. I did not loose consciousness but was close to it...it was the scariest thing that I ever experienced.

I went to a neurologist who ordered a EEG which came up positive for seizures...and the doc then ordered a 48 hour EEG which confirmed various activity related to seizures. MRI was negative for tumors....which for I am grateful.

My seizures compared to what I read here seem minor, although to me they are a big deal. They present themselves a numbness to my arms, hands and legs and my head feels like I am about to have a stroke (although I do not know how that feels and I am just guessing).

I am on 100mg of Lamictal which seemed to cure me until about a month ago when I started taking the 100mgs, as you probably know they ramp you up over 5 weeks to get to the 100 mg dose. So once I hit the 100mg, I began to have terrible insomnia so I started taking Ambien which worked great. Problem is that I think the Ambien brought the seizures
back so I got off that quick. So now it seems I am stuck with waking up at 1 am and cannot get back to sleep. I also seem to be developing the seizure symptoms now at night.

A couple of questions:
Has anyone had my experience with Ambien?

I would be interested to hear about your experience with Lamictal and if you get insomnia?

Is there another good med out there for sleep?

Thanks so much.